Frances Barber says she is made to feel like a 'child killer' if she goes to Waitrose without bag-for-life Barber called the controversy over Mary Beard's TV appearance, after the historian was branded too unattractive for television, "insane." She told the magazine: "I don't care about getting older. I really don't. I'm 54, I feel 26 and I act 12. But she added: "I'd be a hypocrite if I said I'd never get a facelift - I'm saving up for one - but it'll be tiny adjustments - the kind of thing that just makes you look less tired. I'm not a fan of the "wind-tunnel" face." The actress admitted that "vile" online comments about her appearance after she was photographed at a film festival had left her so upset that she "went to bed for a month." Barber, who plays a seductive QC in BBC1 courtroom drama Silk, said she did not agree with bringing TV cameras into courtrooms. "If there's a camera there, of course you're going to play to it," she said. The actress, whose new film May I Kill U? is set against a backdrop of the London riots, said: "I was so angry because all the politicians were away. Theresa May, David Cameron, Boris Johnson - they were all on holiday. ...If I'm in a West End play and the leading man is on holiday, I don't go away at the same time. London was burning and no-one was in charge. Barber told how she dispensed with her usual glamour for the role. "I have never looked so dreadful in anything I have ever done," she said. I look like Waynetta Slob. My teeth have been blackened and I have no make-up except for some red veins. So yes, it was a departure and I loved it.