a powerhouse performance by emily beecham.tly plays a young londoner who has apparently drifted into her early 30s without much direction, but an awful lot of repressed angst. she works in a kitchen and she works very hard. when she plays, she plays hard. she drinks, she takes drugs, she sleeps with whomever she likes and some people she doesn't like. she is cynical and isolated and she is deliberately attempting to keep everybody at a distance. here is a clip. when you put it like that, that sounds negative, yes. no, no, i know what you're saying. all i'm saying is that so much of what's called love is really people just projecting their ideas of what a love object should look like onto someone else and then getting upset when that person fails to live up to those expectations, so then they fall in love with someone else, till they disappoint them too. right, so basically, it turns out i didn't know what you were saying. i don't know why ijust said any of that stuff. i don't actually think any of those things. what, about peo