\u201cYou don\u2019t go into a job thinking about awards,\u201d she says, before grinning conspiratorially. \u201cListen, you don\u2019t say to an Olympian, \u2018Oh, is it OK that you didn\u2019t win?\u2019 Yes, you like to win!\u201d<\/p>\n
In the last 15 years, she has gone from respected actor to stratospheric, garlanded star. Now she is back on TV as a chic sleuth in a racy car \u2013 despite being terrible at guessing whodunnit<\/p>\n
It is high summer and, while Lesley Manville may be suffering a bit with hay fever and the heat (\u201cI\u2019m so white, all I do is burn\u201d), she doesn\u2019t do wilting. Soon to head outside to tend to the ailing garden of her London home, she is enjoying a rare period of rest after six almost unbroken months of Oedipus<\/a> on Broadway and then Les Liaisons Dangereuses<\/a> at the National. She keeps, incidentally, the Tony she won for playing Jocasta in Oedipus on a shelf by the computer, \u201cnext to its friend, Larry Olivier\u201d \u2013 an Olivier awarded for the same role.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t go into a job thinking about awards,\u201d she says, before grinning conspiratorially. \u201cListen, you don\u2019t say to an Olympian, \u2018Oh, is it OK that you didn\u2019t win?\u2019 Yes, you like to win!\u201d<\/p>\n
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