It’s tempting to conflate Kristin Scott Thomas with one of her many roles. That was especially true in her brief appearance in Fleabag when she voiced a killer soliloquy about the perils of living in a woman’s body. It starts with being “born with pain built-in” and caps off with a description of menopause as “the most wonderful fucking thing in the world.”
She tells me, “When I read that thing, I thought, Ah, this is what I have been longing to say. I take no credit for that because it was Phoebe [Waller-Bridge]. I just said the words.” But who else could deliver those words so believably, and with such power and style?
