I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LAWYER

Had Annabel Scholey not made it as an actor, she could have become a lawyer. ‘I did consider it briefly. At the beginning of series one, some of the cast and I met a top divorce lawyer in her office — a big skyscraper with glass doors. She was in a pale pink twinset with immaculate blonde hair. She had two children and she looked very gentle but my God, you could tell that underneath she was cutthroat. She taught us how to speak more like lawyers and to look clients directly in the eye and that as soon as you come into the room, you turn on your clock and start making money. When I was filming as Nina in my beautiful corner office with a view of St Paul’s, I did think, “Oh my God, why didn’t I do this instead of acting?”’