audiences with critics delighting in her performance. the movie has been kept carefully under wraps and this is the only image available, showing nancy, a woman of thomson's age who, having never experienced sexual pleasure hires a male sex worker, leo grande, played by irish actor daryl mccormack. nearly all the film is shot in one room. created by british writer katie brand and directed by sophie hyde, this film is something new. these are characters we don't see much of. we have never seen this story, we have never seen these characters. it's not much of, we've never seen them. can you not be honest to yourself for once i in your life and say - to yourself what helen has done, i have done. the actress is already a double oscar winner, for acting in howard's end and for writing, for sense and sensibility.