It’s 10am in York, England, on a “bizarrely” sunny day as Taj Atwal describes it. “It is pretty disconcerting for November. We need it to be freezing cold here for it not to be global warming,” she laughs, heartily and easily. Dressed in a crisp white T-shirt and jeans, her wavy hair framing her face, Atwal is the exact opposite of where her city needs to be to not raise any alarms.
Although she has good reason to be—Atwal has just finished shooting for Hollywood director Martin Campbell’s upcoming action thriller film , due to release this year—I begin