As well as being an actress with a full-spectrum range that goes from all-action Hollywood blockbusters, such as Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible series, to intense arthouse chamber pieces like Pieces of a Woman and her Bafta-winning depiction of Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown, she is the co-founder of a new production company, Aluna Entertainment, that is dedicated to making films about the contradictory, powerful women she loves so much. But this was not because Kirby is difficult or mercurial – in person, she is friendly, relaxed and engaged, with a mischievous smile – but rather because she is currently trying to manage two full-time jobs. The time and location of the interview have changed so many times that I am relieved we are both in the same place at the same time.
Kirby, who is known to her friends and family as Noo, is dressed all in black, her Matrix-lite attire – long black coat, sunglasses – contrasting with her bright aquamarine eyes and peroxide hair. We are sitting in a nook in Notting Hill’s Electric House members’ club, the one quiet spot amid the breakfast bustle. "I like stories about women who are really open, messy and contradictory." This immersion has enabled her to inhabit the psyches of some truly fascinating women, from arms-dealers to empresses, grieving mothers to rebel princesses. "That’s the job, to force yourself to believe," she says. Vanessa Kirby is the sort of actress who likes to plunge herself so completely into her characters that she begins to think like them, to feel like them.
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