In a cafe in north London, over scrambled eggs and tea, Claire Foy is gearing up to put herself down. When she reads celebrity interviews, she says, she finds herself agreeing with the subjects, as if they have all the answers. “They exercise every day, and they don’t drink any more. They’ve got all these views which are really pertinent and interesting. I really think there’s this feeling that everyone is doing it better, all the time.”
It turns out that she has a habit of being hard on herself, though she often disguises it as a joke. In this case, anyway, she’s wrong, as she is about to express plenty of views that are pertinent and interesting, about all manner of things, from pay disputes, to her struggles with anxiety, to Matt Smith’s bottom. “I just sit there and go, ‘Oh, I don’t know what I’m doing with my life,’” she shrugs.
