The Wallis Simpson bug
She’s just a lovely woman. My first experience of her was a very nice cup of Earl Grey in a living room in her house. That’s how we talked about doing something together and it was really artistically a very complicit relationship throughout.”
“W.E” actress Andrea Riseborough, explaining how how Madonna offered her a part in her new film over traditional English afternoon tea.
“Also I think from beginning to end it was five-and-a-half months playing Wallis, and Madonna has an infectious passion for all sorts of things and she’s very worldly” – said “She has a real wisdom, but particularly at this point for the Duke and Duchess, so I got the bug – the Wallis Simpson bug.”
Riseborough also said watching awards hit The King’s Speech was interesting as it gave another perspective on the abdication story: “It was strange watching it for me, because it was the other side of a whole. It was the other side of the story and in my job you have to absolutely convince yourself of the truth because everything’s just a version of truth isn’t it. So the truth that we were dealing with was something very other to that of The King’s Speech. It was strange but I very much enjoyed it – as objective as I could be about it.”
From a story by the Press Association.