Coming up on this episode of Whitewine Question Time.

As women, we're taught to be submissive, to be nice, to smile, to do the right thing, to be polite.

It's every single moment when I have done that and abandoned myself has come back to tap me on the shoulder.

When you landed your role in Cold Feet, it kind of saved you, I believe, from becoming a solicitor.

Is that right?

No.

I just said it in an interview.

And I fell for it.

I really do think it's a really exciting chapter.

This one's ending and then you've got the,

this next one I'm really, really looking forward to

because it's not about all those things outside.

It's not about roles as an actor or as a whatever you're doing

or as a mum or as this or that.

It's just what is that and what does that look like? Well, it's,

it's you again, right? Hello and welcome to white wine question time. The podcast that asked

its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today is an

actress who plays pinched and pained like few others.

Think alcoholic yummy mummy Karen Marsden in ITV's Cold Feet,

the role that arguably catapulted her to fame.

Then there's Ros Myers, the career-driven intelligence boss in BBC One Spooks,

and Claire in falling apart, the young professional who behind closed doors

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