17 January 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nHarriet Walter believes she would be “dressing as a boy” if she was a teenager now.<\/p>\n
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Harriet Walter never felt like a ‘typical woman’<\/p>\n
\nThe 74-year-old actress doesn’t see herself as a “typical woman\u201d and never felt like a “real girl” growing up, but she found she identified with her “genderless” portrayal of Prospero in Phyllida Lloyd’s 2017 production of ‘The Tempest’.<\/p>\n
\nDiscussing how a therapist told her she had gender confusion and was probably a repressed lesbian when being treated for anorexia when she was 20, she told The Times newspaper: \u201cNot long ago I played Prospero [in a 2017 Phyllida Lloyd production of The Tempest] as genderless, free-wheeling in the middle of male, female, wherever. I think that\u2019s where I\u2019ve always felt I was. <\/p>\n
\n“It wasn\u2019t to do with my sexuality: it had to do with how I express myself and how I feel in the world. I\u2019m not a typical woman, and I\u2019m not a lesbian either…<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a huge spectrum of ways you can live your life and you don\u2019t have to define that. I said to a non-binary young friend, \u2018These are definitions I put on a form: that I\u2019m British, female, white. Boxes I tick. They are not who I am.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\n“And God, if the person I was when I was 12, 13, was living now, I seriously think I\u2019d have been thinking maybe not about changing anything, but just dressing as a boy. I didn\u2019t feel like a real girl. But then what I didn\u2019t know, and what you learn later, is that nobody else does.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘Succession’ actress thinks the current preferences in Hollywood has made the ideals of what a woman should look like even more restrictive than when she was growing up.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cIt feels like the more women have gained in territory in terms of what jobs we can enter and what income we can earn, the more women are sort of cartooning themselves and boobing themselves and plumping their lips and all that.<\/p>\n
\nHarriet fell for fellow actor Guy Paul when they starred together in ‘Mary Stuart’ on Broadway in 2009 and they married in 2011, and she thinks tying the knot later in life is the “best time” to do it.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cIt\u2019s the best time! It\u2019s exactly when you want to be married. When you want to do all sorts of things, and you\u2019ve got a companion to travel with and hang out, and you don\u2019t have these idealised, impossible visions of how people should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBut the ‘Killing Eve’ star admitted it is “very difficult” to start a relationship when older.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to embark on a love affair in later life. When you\u2019re young, that\u2019s what everything\u2019s aimed at. Music culture, party culture, club culture. It\u2019s all about getting a partner. <\/p>\n
\n“Whereas when you\u2019re older, it\u2019s much harder to see the signals. You develop links as a friend and think, \u2018Is this going to turn into something else?\u2019 “<\/p>\n
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