'It's expected that we will dye our hair and try to look younger'

By Jane Cornwell
Updated December 24 2017 - 9:48am, first published December 19 2017 - 12:06am

It's a warm autumn day in London and in a grand hotel overlooking a main thoroughfare in Knightsbridge, one of the capital's poshest postcodes, Kristin Scott Thomas is fiddling with a window latch, letting in some air. "Ah, now it's too noisy," she says as a barrage of sounds tumble into the room, her vowels so crisp and British it's easy to forget that, as a long-time resident of Paris, she spends much of her life speaking perfectly accented French.