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Jean-Baptiste knows how to stand her ground, and can be fabulously combative. She looks like a punk version of her former self — mini-mohican, grey tracksuit, trainers, buckets of attitude.

Would be nice, though. She was bright, went to grammar school, dreamed of being a barrister, but ended up at Rada, where she gained a classical education in music. Jean-Baptiste appeared to have everything ahead of her.

She was just shy of 30, supremely versatile, with a chameleon face and an ability to segue from high farce to downbeat naturalism. We waited for the great roles and reviews and awards. And we waited and waited. She was pissed off, and let us know it. And that was that. But it was too late. By then Jean-Baptiste had morphed from the brilliant young black actress to the chippy black actress that nobody wanted to cast. While all she had done was tell it straight.

And then she packed her bags for America. In the intervening years she has rarely talked about race. You sense she regretted her past candidness; that she felt it had come to define her.

She gives me a look. Where were all the offers? But British films were doing well back then? Soon enough she challenges me directly.