Vanessa Kirby on The Crown, career advice and being a woman in Hollywood | Bazaar UK

She might have found international fame thanks to her scene-stealing turn as Princess Margaret in The Crown (and winning Netflix’s first Bafta as a result), but Vanessa Kirby has been working in the industry for over a decade - from starring alongside Tom Cruise in the latest Mission Impossible film to joining the Fast & Furious franchise - and therefore knows a thing or two about battling with critics and the importance of inner strength. As she prepares to take on her latest role opposite Shia LaBeouf in Pieces of a Woman - for which she’s already receiving rave reviews and is being tipped for multiple award nominations - we revisit our June 2018 interview with the actress, in which she discusses what it’s like to be a woman in Hollywood today (“What is Hollywood, really? I still don’t know“), the impact of the #MeToo movement and why we’re all too mean to ourselves. “The only person in the world that can reassure you, is you,“ she tells us. “I’ve looked in all different areas for reassurance; for people t