Thank you so much! That couldn’t have gone worse! Oh gosh; somebody once said, I think it was Margaret Atwood but I don’t even know, the fate of the well-known is to be misunderstood, and the ambition of this film was to look at the life of the Iron lady from the inside out and to locate something real. Maybe hidden, but truthful, in the life of someone we’ve all decided we know everything about already. I’m very proud of the film and I owe so much to Phyllida Lloyd, Abi Morgan, Pathe, for sticking with this, for asking and expecting so much of me.

“I want to thank the soulful Jim Broadbent, the divinely gifted Olivia Colman. I want to say that half of me is Streep, but the other half is from Lincolnshire, so I come by this role honestly.