Vanessa Kirby: ‘I was bullied at school and became self-conscious about everything I did’

Vanessa Kirby astounded audiences as Princess Margaret in The Crown.

Now she is starring opposite Tom Cruise in the new Mission: Impossible.

She talks to Sophie Heawood about theatre crushes, all-night parties – and what the Queen really thought of The CrownWhen I went to see Vanessa Kirby starring in Julie at the National Theatre, it turns out I picked “a really bad night.

Oh God everything went wrong,” she says when we meet a few days later, in a café in Chelsea where she has just ordered scrambled eggs.

In one climactic moment she has to kill a budgie on stage, but the blood capsule didn’t burst until well after she whizzed the fake bird up in the food processor.

“That happened two nights in a row! But it was better than before, when we used to start the scene with a real budgie and then kill a fake one,

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