It was such an extraordinary experience making Mare of Easttown.
Dispelling this sort of "perfect beauty" myth that often goes hand in hand with being, you know, a female celebrity.
We just did the opposite with Mare, because that's who she was.
And it didn't really occur to me that actually what we were doing was anything particularly different or daring or brave, it was just, that's what we were doing for the character.
It's been really overwhelming, the reaction to Mare, and actually, I have to say, largely unexpected.
I mean, I definitely am better equipped to handle these sort of surges of exposure, than I was when I was younger.
Because of course, when you're young, no one can really teach you how to be prepared.
So as a cast and a crew collectively, there was a very watertight network, that we just sort of wrapped around our young actors in particular, and made sure that they felt looked after.
And being an executive producer, it was just important to me that we established this atmosphere of everyone being in it together.
And we were all affected by the story we were telling.
