In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
“And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.”
“To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!”