Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the business, a three-time Baffda Award winner, a Golden Globe Award winner, and an Emmy Award nominee

who made her name in a wide variety of British projects on screens big and small.

Among them, Peep Show, Tyrannosaur, Broad Church, 2012, accused, the lobster, rev, and the night manager,

and who is now garnering the best reviews of her career and considerable Oscar buzz for her portrayal of Anne,

the Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1702 through 1707 in Yorgos Lanthemos'

acclaimed dramedy The Favorite.

The film, which also stars Oscar winners Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss as cousins who are members

of Queen Anne's court competing for her affection, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and North American

premiere at the Telluride Film Festival en route to opening the New York Film Festival last month.

Over the course of our conversation in the penthouse of the Whitby Hotel in New York,

the 44-year-old and I discussed a wide range of topics,

including the roots of her long-running collaboration with the British comedy team of David Mitchell and Robert Webb, how Tyrannosaur, a little

indie film directed by fellow actor Patty Konsodyne and Broadchurch, an I TV detective series,

totally changed her life and career.

What it has been like playing Queens in the films Hyde Park on Hudson and the favorite

and now on the upcoming third and fourth seasons of the Crown in which she is replacing

Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth the second,

plus much more. But first I was joined at the Weston Hotel in Times Square by

Elsie Fisher, the 15-year-old actress who played the 13-year-old character at the center of Bo Burnham's

Indie Dramedy 8th Grade, which had its world premiere at January Sundance Film Festival

and which A24 released on July 13th. With a 98 degree favorable rating on Rodden Tomatoes.com,

it is one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2018, and Fisher's poignant performance

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