Over the past half-decade, the 31-year-old has emerged as one of the West End’s most prodigious performers. She speaks affably but meticulously her answers are precise and resolutely diplomatic.Ītim has reason to be confident, of course. Standing at nearly six feet tall, with sapphire-blue hair and a chic grey pantsuit, the Ugandan-born British actor radiates style and confidence. We’re meeting in a London hotel, days before the release of her new film, The Woman King.
“But they’re disregarded because they’re just a fool.” “They see everything, usually more clearly than anybody else does,” Atim says. But no, it’s the wise, eccentric figures advising from the margins of plays such as King Lear or Twelfth Night. I expect one of the biggies – perhaps Prospero, Hamlet or Lady Macbeth. As a litmus test, I had asked the two-time Olivier Award-winning actor which of Shakespeare’s myriad roles she would most want to tackle – sort of a culture snob’s equivalent of an astrology chart or Myers-Briggs alignment. More than happy, in fact – it may just be her dream role.
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