all those years ago, the royal shakespeare company, i remember a meeting withjuliet stevenson, lindsay duncanaking out about the lack of roles for women, and because they, i, were young then as well, but i was so young, i thought what are they talking about. and i totally did not understand that then because i have got my whole career ahead of me and there will be loads and loads of roles, but certainly when i did turned 40, i thought, i get what they were talking about. there is another intriguing discussion right now that seems to me potentially restricts the kinds of roles actors can do, that is the one about and the word is used "authenticity". to be very simplistic about it, it boils down to the idea that for example if you are playing a gay character, you really ought to have a gay actor doing that to give extra meaning and insight they can bring, and whether it might be a disabled part, that should be played by a disabled actor rather than famously many years ago, daniel day lewis playing a man with cerebral palsy. what's your feeling about that? i think it's good, i think it's a good