Top: Welcome to the dark side – Ruth Wilson.
RUTH WILSON LOVES complicated characters. In director Harry Wootliff ’s True Things, adapted from Deborah Kay Davies’ novel True Things About Me, she plays Kate, an unassuming young woman who finds herself in a turbulent affair with an erratic man she calls Blond (Tom Burke). It’s a typically intense role. As she bids farewell to His Dark Materials’ formidable Mrs Coulter and prepares for a one-woman stage adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice in the West End, Wilson tells us that she’s never one to run away from a challenge.