Not all the places. I’d worked my arse off, but it was important for me to take a step back, just be my age, and surround myself with possibility.”, It paid off. I wonder if it’s harder, when you’re very young, to put setbacks into perspective? She’s now ridden the crest of the wave and country in the UK has become really popular again. If you nurture that, it’s the most beautiful, powerful thing that you can add to the world.”, Buckley has a veritable blizzard of projects coming up – roles in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ironbark, a cold-war drama with Benedict Cumberbatch, The Voyage of Doctor Doolittle, with Rami Malek and Robert Downey Jnr, and Judy, the Judy Garland biopic, starring Renée Zellweger. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It’s harder, but more fruitful, to share.” Buckley loved working with Walters and Okonedo (“It’s like surfing with heavyweights”), and enjoyed the tight-knit Wild Rose set: “It’s rare to get that mesh of everyone experiencing something. I’m scared before certain jobs. I just tried to listen to it as much as I could. So you performed in school, an all-girls school—and you performed some male roles, I understand. And so they’d come into this tiny little town hall in Kerry, and I remember it was like the first time of being really emotionally punctured by watching my mom, because it was a really selfless thing. Did it help having worked with each other before on War and Peace? The thing that I learned from Moll in Beast is that as people, we have the capability to have such darkness—every single one of us. Having a sense of rhythm, a knowledge of phrasing? You had more encouragement, obviously. You know, honestly, I don’t know. For me actually, I just think being from London and not being a woman but it’s the human qualities because we all struggle with balancing our hopes with our realities and how those two come together so in some ways it’s very specific. Then I said to my agent, “I want to go back and study,” and she was like, “Do it.” I also wanted to hang out with people my own age, and get drunk in a pub on Friday, and do normal things people my age did. You come out of fake life into real life when you’ve been in that mindset, and sometimes it takes a minute to adjust. The US premiere came on the heels of actress Jessie Buckley being among the five finalists for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. I suppose with Rose-Lynn is her unyielding courage. And in the middle of it there’s this conservative tax haven, where there’s somebody employed by the government to measure the height of hedges per week. Oh my God, I loved it! Today, sitting in a London hotel, Buckley is friendly and sparky from the off. It’s my personal life.” On a more generalised tack, I wonder if having any kind of private life is difficult for someone in her situation? I think even within our family that was something—if you wanted to do music or learn piano, [my parents] were more into encouraging us to experience something like that, nurturing something like that, than having materialistic things. Even when that’s kind of unpalatable as well. It’s only slightly facetious to say that I’ve heard you speak in every accent on screen but your own [laughter]. “I didn’t look at it and go: ‘Oh, that’s my story.’” For Buckley, I’d Do Anything was an “escape tunnel”, especially as she was dejected, having just failed to get into drama school. There’s always been a real strong connection. I think there’s a lot of—it’s a very honest portrayal, I think, of what that relationship is. Like, I love “Boulder to Birmingham.” Before Gram Parsons died, [he told] two of his best friends: “When I die, steal my body from the morgue, take it to the canyon, and set it alight.” And it’s a song that Emmylou [Harris] has written about her standing atop the canyon watching his body burn. And the landscape! But I honestly don’t know—you’ll have to ask Nicole Taylor about that. We were lucky to work with the incredible musicians who supported what they said that sound was and made with their own. To kind of see somebody who has a passion and who struggles with that passion and struggles with trying to manage her life alongside this passion, I just thought it’s just brilliantly written, really truthful, and bold at getting into the edges of the complexities of this person’s dreams. Is country music popular across the pond? I mean, for me, I found second-year school very stressful. Yeah, I find it cathartic.