The actress played a virologist who works out what's coming in her 2011 film Contagion. She talks about how playing that role affected the way she has watched the COVID-19 pandemic unfold in real life. In your latest film, Ammonite, you play the real-life paleontologist Mary Anneng - one of the first and greatest fossil hunters. It really moved me to see how much it meant to people in Lyme Regis where we filmed that we were bringing her to life.

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