A PROPER LADY

s a woman, I find that to be a very tricky balance, but when you do hit that stride, things fly. Everyone’s happy. Your family is happy, you’re happy, people at work are happy. It’s a nice feeling. I’m so glad that my success happened little by little and that my first film, [directed by Prince in 1986], was a failure. It was an enormous turkey; it was terrible. It was also completely surreal because Prince and I were absolute childrenwe were in our—that kind of lurk around for decades, and that’s something to be proud of. And actually, the past few years have been really interesting career-wise too, starting with , which was a sort of political comedy, and then , and then . Phoebe [Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of ] is so clever. When I got that script, I literally jumped for joy. And I have coming up, which was a wonderful experience, all about women enriching and supporting each other. I would say that I’ve hit a sweet spot.