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“I didn’t want her to look like a grump schoolmistress,” Atwood said.

Dynamic, too, was Nicole Car as the widowed schoolmistress with hopeless belief in Grimes’s salvation.

"She was rather like a schoolmistress, actually because, we were young girls - 17, 18... You know, if your Millennium Falcons weren't touching, 'Come on girls, what's going off here? We've got to get this out!'"

There’s the occasional sharp moment to remind us of the character’s inner fires, but mostly she plays it cool and oddly small-scale, like an overly qualified schoolmistress who happens to find herself ruling an empire.

Trump has grown frustrated by the prime minister’s ‘schoolmistress’ manner.