no sooner do i talk about leslie manville. ..5 fashion to prepare for this role? what research did you do? there is a lot of delightful research you can do, you can start at the v&a. you can read lots of wonderful books and look at lots of amazing pictures. yes, i had seven months to do all of that and it was a glorious time to immerse myself in that whole world. i like clothes anyway, so it was not like, i have got to read up about this period in fashion history and it was a drudge, it was wonderful.” think that is harder to research is this co—dependent relationship that your character has with her brother, played by sir daniel day lewis. how ha rd played by sir daniel day lewis. how hard was that to work on, or did it click immediately? thankfully it clicked. we did not know each other immediately, but once we knew we we re immediately, but once we knew we were going to play brother and sister, a good few months before the film, we got to know each other and became friends and easy with each other and translated that to these