KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS

What did you play in your Nativity? An old man — one of the shepherds, I think. I’ve been told I was very good. Is it on film somewhere? Oh God no, how old do you think I am? No one filmed anything in those days. I don’t have any photographs of me as a schoolchild. It was completely different. The whole recording of people’s lives just didn’t happen then. You lived instead of recording. Do you take anything away post-show? Very little. By the time you get to the end of