Maxine Peake: 'I'm sure people say: don't hire that big red raving loony'
The actor on her new role as a woman undergoing IVF, the trouble with being outspoken and why she called her dog CastroMaxine Peake's roles range from a transgender Hamlet to a sharp lawyer in the BBC series Silk to, most recently, an early 19th-century matriarch from Manchester in Mike Leigh's film Peterloo. Now she is about to star in a stage adaptation of Julia Leigh's harrowing memoir of IVF treatment, Avalanche:…