Apologising to some actors

So I first saw Claire Foy in Little Dorritt in 2008 and she kept cropping up in other things. She was in the adaptation of The Night Watch, the Sarah Waters novel, in 2011. I wasn't keen. I found her a weak link. In 2015 she was going to be in Wolf Hall as Anne Boleyn and I was sceptical. Then. Then! I saw her in Wolf Hall as Anne Boleyn. And she absolutely blew my socks off. She was amazing. Crackling with fierce energy, coming out fighting, damaged and raw. Now I'm like, Claire Foy is in it? I'm there. I even watched her seasons of The Crown. And I hate the royal family. She plays the younger queen with barely-contained rage. This also applies retrospectively. Since Wolf Hall I've rewatched The Night Watch and thought Foy knocked it out the park as Helen. Such a stunning vulnerability and vitality. I was so wrong. My apologies to Claire Foy. Rachael Stirling was in the unhinged adaptation of the first Sarah Waters novel, Tipping the Velvet. The best thing that came out of that…