Rachael Stirling interview: Private Lives (The Observer)

The actor on sparring with Stephen Mangan in a new Private Lives, why she didn’t want to be a Bond girl, and what she learned from pulling pints

Since scandalising BBC viewers more than 20 years ago in Tipping the Velvet, Rachael Stirling has become one of our most sought-after actors on stage and screen. Other TV credits include The Bletchley Circle, Women in Love and Mackenzie Crook’s Detectorists. She’s now in rehearsals for the Donmar Warehouse’s new production of Noël Coward’s comedy Private Lives, in which she and Stephen Mangan will play Amanda Prynne and Elyot Chase…