Best Screen Performance to Date
“I like gritty,” the actress told me, following a screening of the independent film Trucker, in which she gives her Cas Diane, a hard-living truck driver who finds herself unexpectedly reunited with the son she left behind years before when she split from her husband.
“When I first read the script, I didn’t like Diane at all. She’s seriously flawed and I was appalled by her behaviour towards her son.
“But I realised she’s just being true to herself,” Michelle told me at the Tribeca Film Festival in downtown New York.
It’s a better role than - and the complete opposite of - the woman she plays in the romantic comedy Made Of Honour, which opens in UK cinemas today.
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