Breathe script left Claire Foy in floods of tears

Actress Claire Foy struggled with the script for her new movie Breathe because it kept breaking her heart.
The Crown star admits she sobbed as she read all about the true life story of Diana Cavendish, who battled the odds to help her husband, portrayed by Andrew Garfield, live life after he was paralysed by polio.
“I had never read a script where I didn’t think about it, judging it about how it was going to be made and how was I going to do it or anything like that. I just read it and by the end I couldn’t actually see because I was crying so much.
“I couldn’t read the end of it for the rest of shooting and I never read it ever again. I had never read anything that affected me quite like that.”
The film, which marks Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis’ directorial debut, opened the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday (04Oct17). The script also deeply affected Garfield, who says, “It was so moving and it’s very rare you read a film script that just kills you and makes you a blithering mess of a person, a puddle of your own tears and snot and that is what happened to all of us.”