Lesley Manville Always Reads Reviews: ‘If You Don’t Like Me Then You Don’t Like Me. I’m Not Gonna Give Up’

Tony winner is serving as fiction jury head this week at Monte-Carlo Television Festival

By Simon Button

Simon Button

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When she’s up for a TV role, Lesley Manville doesn’t care which platform the show in question is going out on. “My job is just to go there and deliver a character,” she says, “so whether it’s for the BBC, ITV, Netflix, it doesn’t really make any difference to me.”

Not that the star whose credits include “Mum,” “Sherwood” and “The Crown” has been on our screens much recently. Instead, she’s just won a Tony award for “Oedipus” on Broadway after winning an Olivier for the same production in the West End and returned to London this spring for “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at the National Theatre.

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