The ‘Schindler’s List’ actor has stepped behind the camera for a sensational new film that carries echoes of her own childhood growing up in South Africa amid apartheid. She speaks to Adam White about confronting racism head-on, her ‘semi-retirement’ from acting, and the Nineties kids who still adore Miss Honey
Embeth Davidtz on Matilda, trauma and her haunting new film: ‘I was a child, so I absorbed the bigotry and violence around me’ … from the Independent Adam White
