Miriam Margolyes joins Mark Rylance's RSC boycott over BP

Fellow actor backs stance on oil firm, and Greta Thunberg hails Rylance as role model

The row over fossil fuel sponsorship of the arts continued to escalate as actor Miriam Margolyes joined Mark Rylance in his protest against BP's sponsorship of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Rylance told the Guardian last week that BP's sponsorship deal allowed the company to "obscure the destructive reality of its activities" and said he did not wish to be associated with BP any more than with "an arms dealer or a tobacco salesman".