Because the iconography that surrounds us is absolutely inescapable. And of course, that's not my fault, actually. I think what it did for me, certainly, was it made me re-recognize the waste of time that non-acceptance of one's body is. On how the role changed or liberated her in her own life And that's what I took for my inspiration for her stance. And when I was trying to work out how I wanted her to stand, I went and looked at all the old medieval pictures of Eve in the Garden of Eden because I thought, 'Well, she wasn't self conscious.' It was all male artists, but at the same time, all those medieval Eves and Adams, they just stand with one leg slightly bent, very relaxed. She's seeing it for the first time as her home, the place where she lives, the place where she can experience joy on her own or with someone else should she choose. But how does Nancy get there? What's going on inside her? And I decided that because she had experienced this joy, that suddenly she's looking at her body without any filters. I thought, 'How am I going to do this?' I don't know how to do this, because I can't do it. Oddly enough, I went quite into sort of the past. Thompson says she found her character to be 'irresistibly delicious.'
