00:00Hello!
00:01Hello, nice to meet you.
00:14Your main character tries so hard to be a good mother.
00:18I want to ask you in your opinion, how can we be good parents in today's world?
00:24By listening and learning from our children.
00:28I think people of my generation comment a lot on how children of today seem so much more aware than
00:44we were when we were their age.
00:46So I feel really hopeful about the next generation.
00:52Of course, you have fears for them and you're freaking out that your children are, you know, addicted to Fortnite
00:59or they're, you know, they're just addicts to online games or whatever it is and think, God, the world's gone
01:07to hell.
01:08But actually, on the other side, I think children, yes, are so much more aware of what is going on
01:18in the world and are kind of inspired to take responsibility for a better world because of their access to
01:26knowledge.
01:29So I feel we have to listen to them.
01:33Virginia Woolf said that for a woman is really important to have her own room.
01:38Your protagonist tries to build her own house.
01:42So how important is for a woman, for a mother to have her own house?
01:49I think everybody, I think a house or a home should be a human right.
01:55And I think that those of us who, well, all of us who have lived through the pandemic, we are
02:02living through it now.
02:04Everybody has come to really appreciate what it is to feel safe in your home.
02:12And then it might be what it is to have a little bit of garden or a little bit of
02:17green space in which to play.
02:20And what about the people who are living in, you know, high rise buildings and have no outside space?
02:26So I think that this theme has become so important and there should not be people living on the streets
02:37in first world countries in 2020.
02:42So I think it goes beyond woman, man.
02:45It's just woman, man, children.
02:47Everybody has to have a roof.
02:49I love the fact that your character is so brave.
02:54She doesn't think that she's a victim.
02:58She's brave.
02:59She's a mother and she fights for her children.
03:02So how important was this point of view?
03:05Yeah.
03:06So Claire met a woman who worked for the charity Women's Aid in Ireland and was telling her about her
03:15idea for this story.
03:16And the woman said, do not make this central character a victim because these women are heroes.
03:25There are some of them have so much courage.
03:28They have the courage to stay and the courage to go.
03:33And they know that going is when most women who die in situations of domestic violence, that is the moment
03:42when they die, when they cross that threshold.
03:45Yes, it was very, very important that Sandra wasn't a victim, that she's somebody who's making her own destiny for
03:52her children.
03:53And she's not just sitting there waiting for, you know, a fairy godmother.
04:01She's actually out there, you know, researching her house, asking for help, trying to come up with a solution.
04:09And, of course, that's what brings, in a way, brings the luck, luck to her.
04:14Sandra is played by an actress that is so intense.
04:18I want to ask you, how did you find that intensity with her?
04:24She's really emotional.
04:26So Claire and I have been working, I've been directing Claire in the theatre for five years.
04:36and working with Harriet, who plays Peggy, the woman who gives her the house.
04:42And there is so much trust between us.
04:45And I know that Claire has a lot of courage.
04:48She's very bold.
04:50She can play men.
04:52She can play women.
04:53She's just like in our Shakespeare company, we had all women.
04:57You know, one day she's playing a warrior.
04:59Then she was playing, you know, a crazy headbanging prince.
05:06She's just got such courage and such wit and humour and a kind of strong kind of soul.
05:17So in many ways, the acting part of this, I wouldn't say it was the easy part,
05:24but certainly the relationship between her and I on the set is very straightforward.
05:32And because we know each other so well and we trust each other.
05:39You were speaking about solving problems.
05:42You're a director, this mother has many problems, but she always stands up and starts again.
05:51So how can we face problems every day and have the courage and the strength to always stand up and
05:57go on?
05:59They say that success is how you deal with your failures.
06:03It's about never being complacent.
06:06And I think one of the things about this story is that Sandra's inspiration is her children.
06:12She's doing it for someone else.
06:15And I think that that's quite a motivating factor for a lot of us, whether it's our children, our parents,
06:24our colleagues, a community.
06:26You know, what strength a community gives to a project, a person.
06:34I think we have to be good neighbours.
06:36I think that maybe, again, the pandemic has shown us how important it is to be a neighbour.
06:47And something that some of us who work all the time forget to be. I do.
06:56Okay.
06:56Thank you so much.
06:57Thanks a lot.
06:58Bye.
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