[In 2010]: George Bernard Shaw was a raving socialist. And mad for feminism, passionate that women should have a right to choose how they live and how and if they work. Also the play ['Mrs Warren's Profession'] is about hypocrisy, about that bubble of respectability. And we're exactly the same now: we seem to be obsessed with infidelity, and prostitution of one kind or another, and the role of women - whether they are naughty tarts who do things with their bodies they shouldn't, or whether they are married and therefore respectable and therefore honoured. Quite often you do know of a very happy partnership, married or not, but equally there seems to be the same percentage of people in any walk of life who find it difficult to ... to be entirely, um, what is the word without getting too - ha! ha! - into detail ... who don't quite find that their life is sufficient without an extra excitement of some kind or another. The difficulty is we don't accept that, we're just not being honest. In a play the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things. And the only thing that is different working with Michael is I feel that I can only argue so much, otherwise it may appear to people that I am arguing only because I'm in a position where I can argue longer. It's also the balance of the other actors: like a football team, you are a team, and he is the coach. You can't start having tea with the coach and telling him about the team, you have to keep that separate. So we have a very boring time at home, two little silent people going slinking home after rehearsal. [On moving from India to the UK at age 19]: At a party you'd say, 'I'm an actress', and the eyebrows would go and immediately you would get that look. It wasn't a respectable profession; they knew you were up for hire. Like a taxi! But even now, if you are on the stage, basically you are being paid to entertain. It's a deal: there's my ticket, and now you dance. And that isn't prostitution in the wrong way, but it isn't the same as writing a book. I've got a tattoo, and that's probably wrong! Don't worry. It's on my foot. It's a star, but it's just the beginning, there's going to be other things. I'm looking for a turtle but I can't find one.

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