‘It’s still extraordinary how people find women frightening’
Like many of us, actress Olivia Williams has been reassessing her place in the world and the meaningfulness of her work of late. This period of introspection began before the pandemic hit, but since lockdown Williams has been rethinking her gloomy assessment.
“I was quite ill a couple of years ago, I had a really horrible cancer,” says Williams, speaking via Zoom from her North London home. “That made me think that my life and career were a waste of time and I really needed to help people and heal them, do something useful.
“Actors, on the whole
