Me and my agent always realise that whenever I’m scared of a project, I kind of have to do it. Most of the things I’ve done, I’ve been totally terrified of doing. Meeting big people is obviously terrifying – they are your idols. So, yeah, I was scared of meeting Meryl Streep, but I wasn’t quaking in my boots. I was eager to work with her. I was eager to chat. It’s exciting, y’know? It’s not fear.
“And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don’t, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.”
Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig