I take my dog to Primrose Hill, I let him off the leash, and he runs with reckless abandon. It is the most joy I think I’ve ever felt in my life. In New York there’s not a lot of that. I don’t want him to run free in Central Park; I get nervous! I get a coffee at a local place. I get a bagel – they remember me because they just see Benny and they’re like, “Oh yes, this is Benny [with] that crazy lady.”

Unless it’s a two-show day, I really just am enjoying living slowly. The amount of rest that I need is more than I’ve ever needed. I sleep for 10 hours a night. Sometimes I need a nap in the middle of the day before I go in. The thing that I’m really working on is not feeling guilty for that.

That is so Rachel Zegler, I may say. And watching you [onstage], I was going, Maybe it’s time to go back and do something again.

Time for Helen to play Eva Perón.

Very old Eva Perón.

But you get it. It’s one of those things where, and I felt this on Romeo + Juliet, too, where it’s like [puts on a tired voice], Okay, okay, okay. And then finally you get out there and you’re just like, Yes! It’s like the crunchiest apple you’ve ever had, and it’s so good and delicious and you just want to eat it down to the core.

That’s the Snow White in you talking, darling.

[laughs] Oh yeah, apple trauma.

Apple trauma, yeah. It’s unbelievable your achievements since [Shazam!]. Two movies – Hunger Games and Snow White, and all the shit you had to deal with incidentally, which you dealt with with such courage, grace and fortitude. I thought you handled all that so beautifully. I remember me and Lucy giving you advice about how to deal with publicity and stuff like that.

It was very sound advice.

But my God, you had to deal with such a lot. I was feeling for you so strongly from the sidelines. How old are you, 24?

I’m 24, yeah.