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I only started acting because I was rubbish at everything else, says Olivia Colman


Even though she hasn’t had to deal with the cruel hand of dementia personally, Olivia Colman found the unbearably sad situation at the heart of her new film almost uncomfortably acute. 
In The Father, a moving exploration of old age and the tricks the mind can play, she portrays Anne, the devoted daughter of emotionally uptight Anthony (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who is stricken with dementia, leading to a tangled web of grief, confusion and occasional black humour.
Anyone who has had to deal with an ageing loved one will recognise this scenario. But Olivia says the power of the script – co-written by Frenchman Florian Zeller, on whose play the film is based – made it spring vividly to life for her too.  ....

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