“I’m still a bit of a child,” says MiriamMargolyes. “I can’t resist naughtiness.” In BritishVogue’s July 2023 issue, the actor is at her very best – cheeky, wonderfully candid, and an absolute breath of fresh air.
It turns out there isn’t any ice cream. But there is a zesty orange and walnut cake made by her lodger, George , which sits on a grand island unit amid other detritus – Gail’s Bakery boxes, books, a jar of homemade French dressing.
After a fair amount of faffing, Margolyes perches inside on the edge of a plump white sofa. A yellow cardigan is draped over a peacock-patterned turquoise dress; frilly multicoloured socks poke out over maroon Skechers. She laughs when I ask her to describe her style – “If only I had one!” – before settling on “little schoolgirl frocks and cover-ups” .
Accordingly, there’s a scattiness to proceedings today, which she chalks up to having returned from Tuscany the day before. She’d been there since December, staying at her farmhouse with her partner, Heather Sutherland, an academic. It was both a holiday and a writing retreat, as she gears up to publish her second book,
, this autumn. “It’ll be about me and the lessons I’ve learnt in life,” she says. A follow up to her phenomenally successful memoir, which covered everything from her early life in Oxford to her career on stage and screen, I wonder what drove her to write another?
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