Best known for Fresh Meat, she now stars with Tom Hiddleston in Pinter’s Betrayal.
Zawe Ashton talks about bullying, Michelle Obama and why she finds language such a turn onZawe Ashton is dissecting the dreaded “self-tape”, where an actor must record themselves auditioning at home.
“It’s when a loved one begrudgingly sits off-camera reading these awful lines while you’re dressed from the waist up in some kind of character outfit, with pyjama bottoms or no knickers on,” she smiles.
“It’s basically like being an unpaid newsreader.”It’s a sunny morning in London and Ashton, 34, has recently returned to the city she left last year for a three-month run of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in the West End alongside Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox.
Wearing a rainbow jumper and ordering an avocado smoothie, she’s radiant, with a hiking-in-the- Hollywood-hills glow.
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