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I ask her about the character of the Serbian war criminal in the film, Milos Radic.

I feel like three-dimensional women have been written, but that maybe we lost our way in the Eighties and Nineties and theyвЂ™ve just been much thinner on the ground.вЂќДormer talks about how she recently learnt that before the talkies, 50В perВ cent of screenplays were written by women, вЂњbecause Hollywood was the repair of the mavericks, the unorthodox, the Jews, the homosexuals, women, left to their own devices, and then as soon as Hollywood became corporatised, and the white, male, straight men stepped in, suddenly all those scripts are not written by women any moreвЂќ. She says she began writing the screenplay because complex roles for women werenвЂ™t being written, describing it as вЂњa love letter to all of those movies that Anthony and I loved watching as a couple: itвЂ™s HitchcockвЂ™s Marnie, with Tippi Hedren itвЂ™s Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven, Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity вЂ“ those complex film noir women that always ended up thwarted or punished for their unorthodox behaviour, but were nonetheless colourful. ItвЂ™s a thriller, with several dramatic twists, and a fascinating cast that includes Joely Richardson, and tabloid favourite Emily Ratajkowski. In the just released In Darkness, Dormer plays a blind pianist, whose family were murdered in the Bosnian War. It gave her the вЂњbankabilityвЂќ to star in the film sheвЂ™d begun writing in 2009 with her partner, Anthony Byrne. I was, like, вЂIвЂ™m not bloody playing poker with the writer of DealerвЂ™s Choice, f- offвЂ™.вЂќДormerвЂ™s success in America had another very welcome side-effect. вЂњHe would have liked to have taken some money off me, because he started playing again reasonably recently.

Does she still play? вЂњMuch to Patrick MarberвЂ™s chagrin, I do not,вЂќ she says. It also offered Dormer the opportunity to return to an old passion вЂ“ poker.

вЂњI consider myself a theatre actress,вЂќ she says, вЂњitвЂ™s my first love and itвЂ™s my training.вЂќ Finding herself back on stage in London last year in Venus in Fur, directed by Marber, вЂњfelt like a homecomingвЂќ.

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In between, she returned to British TV in Silk and The Fades, and impressed on stage in Patrick MarberвЂ™s After Miss Julie at the Young Vic in 2012.

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Dormer is dressed in white, too, when we meet in London, but thereвЂ™s nothing quaint or Victorian about her her T-shirt has a large black zip up the middle, sheвЂ™s animated, passionate, vivid вЂ“ words and ideas forming fast, often vehemently вЂ“ she moves as she talks, and sometimes her sharp-toed shoe swings to point directly at me. The Canadian director Larysa Kondracki approached Dormer to play the schoolвЂ™s English headmistress, Mrs Appleyard, telling her that she needed an actress вЂњwho could be tyrannical and terrifying but jump to vulnerable in the space ofВ secondsвЂќ.Дormer admits that she knew only the most famous sequences from the film, вЂњthose girls in those white dresses climbing the rockвЂќ, noting that theyвЂ™re a reference point in fashion shoots to this day. Joan LindsayвЂ™s mysterious tale about three girls and a mistress from an exclusive boarding school in the Australian outback, who vanish during a school outing on ValentineвЂ™s Day, 1900, has bewitched successive generations since it was published in 1967, then made into a masterful, pan-pipe-haunted film by Peter Weir in 1975. ItвЂ™s a nightmarish image, the first we see in the new six-part television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock. The English actress Natalie Dormer stands framed by the light of a drawing room window: dressed all in black, pulled into the shape of a spidery doll by a rigid Victorian dress.