Life after Fleabag: actor Sian Clifford on taming her inner ‘Claire’

As sister Claire, Sian Clifford was a ball of pent-up rage and frustration in Fleabag.

Now she is busier than ever.

She talks about learning to soften her edges and making those ‘what if’ moments come trueSian Clifford is not Claire from Fleabag.

I mean, she is: over Zoom, even with her glasses on in quite un-Claire hoop earrings, she’s instantly recognisable as the older sister, that seething ball of duty, ambition, suppressed rage and barely acknowledged love.I’m assuming here that you’ve watched Fleabag, or at least know of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s multi-award-winning, juggernaut tragi-comedy of lust, grief, family and feeling lost.

Even if you spent the past six years under a rock, you would have struggled to miss the “hair is everything” scene, where Claire’s steely facade is breached by a ferociously asymmetric bob that makes her look “like a pencil”.

It struck

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