Lesley Manville and David Schwimmer on Grief, Growth, and Making It in America

Lesley Manville and David Schwimmer on Grief, Growth, and Making It in America

Lesley Manville, photographed by Patrick Donovan. Lesley Manville and David Schwimmer go way back—far enough to dispense with pleasantries. Two decades ago, they met onstage in Neil LaBute’s Some Girls in London, where Schwimmer, fresh off sitcom superstardom, found himself opposite an actor he was already a “major fan” of. By then, Manville had become one of director Mike Leigh’s most trusted collaborators, evolving from a self-described “perfo…