Juliet Stevenson: ‘Do I have a nemesis? Where do we start? Putin, Musk, Trump, Erdoğan, Modi, Netanyahu’

Juliet Stevenson: ‘Most of the work we do is ephemeral and that’s okay. But Truly Madly Deeply goes on having a life and I’m so thrilled by that.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

What was the most Australian thing that you experienced while you were in the country filming Dustfall?

Working with a python? We don’t tend to work with snakes in the UK. I’m absolutely snake phobic but the python was very professional. Behaved better than I did.