‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

Her acting has seen her as the Roy family matriarch, an assassin in Killing Eve and in no fewer than 21 Shakespeare theatre roles. In her new book she imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said given the chanceIt has been simmering for years. Long before she was a dame, before she was withering in Succession, had appeared opposite Chewbacca in Star Wars, fat-shamed a baby in Ted Lasso and become one of the few – possibly the only – actor to play both a king and