Just ask Olivia Colman.

“I had a little bit of play with that,” she said.

“But definitely, the hardest part I’ve done is someone who’s real.

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Incredibly modest and even unsure, Colman still has reservations about calling herself a success.

“All those hundreds of auditions I did in the first two years.

They don’t just say ‘sorry, no thank you’.

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You don’t hear anything.

That’s heartbreaking,” she said.

To her, the “feeling doesn’t ever really leave you.”