I have been waiting for some time when the startlingly beautiful Connie Nielsen appears in the chic hotel room. ‘I’m so sorry,’ she says. ‘I was rushing back from a meeting, and it was at the other end of the city and I couldn’t get a car, so I had to speed-walk back here.’ I’m about to offer sympathy for this stressful journey when she adds in an upbeat tone: ‘It was wonderful! I’ve had a double workout today.’