Actress put own views aside for PM role

GILLIAN Anderson has said she had to put her views about Margaret Thatcher out of her mind when she portrayed the former prime minister in The Crown.

She told Harper’s Bazaar, who named the actress among their women of the year, that she wanted to capture the former prime minister as a “human being”.

The X-files star will play Baroness Thatcher in the fourth series of Netflix’s hit series later this month.

“I had to get to a point where it’s nothing to do with my opinions of her policies, of her actions,” Anderson, 52, said.“it is only about her as a human being.”

Anderson also discussed working with her partner Peter Morgan, who created the series.

She said: “For our sanity, and actually for the benefit of the relationship, we had very clear boundaries: ‘I am not going to comment on the script, but you are not allowed to comment on the performance.’”