Jodie Comer: 'I thought I was missing the maternal gene until now'

Perhaps predictably for a woman who won an Emmy, a Bafta, a Tony and a Laurence Olivier Award all before the age of 30, up until recently actress Jodie Comer never spent much time thinking about motherhood. “I just never necessarily felt maternal, like it wasn't a part of me,” she says.

We are meeting in a room at The Corinthia Hotel; Comer breezes in, dressed in a silk pinstripe shirt and chinos. She kicks off her shoes and folds herself into a chair opposite me. She is taller than I expected with the glowing complexion of a well-rested woman, despite the fact that this must be her 50th interview of the day.

Her latest film is post-apocalyptic drama The End We Start From, and Comer plays the