Patsy Ferran interview: A Streetcar Named Desire (The Times)

When the actor accepted the role of Blanche DuBois opposite Paul Mescal, she had just four days to rehearse. Then she knocked the critics’ socks off

Newly married, with just one more day’s work to go on the sci-fi film she was shooting, at the start of last December Patsy Ferran was looking forward to a leisurely Christmas. She and her husband were due to visit her extended family in Spain and they were also going for a belated honeymoon in New York. She had spent a while there at the start of 2020, appearing in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway, but the pandemic cut it short after nine previews.