Rose Byrne Is Brilliant As an Unravelling Mum in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

In between takes for Mary Bronstein’s vertiginous, adrenaline-pumped portrait of a mother in freefall, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You , its lead Rose Byrne would burst out laughing. “It was that sense of relief you have when you’re filming such heavy material,” she says when we meet in a London hotel on the eve of the Baftas. She has rightly become a frontrunner in the awards race for her unstoppable tornado of a performance.

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