Look Alice, if you had wanted to support your family and the multi-million dollar home with the pool and the full time staff, you would have had to graft a
duck of a lot harder than you ever did in your whole life. If you hadn't 'made it' by your 40s, you weren't going to. Ioan going out and working as much as he could was entirely the best decision financially, although there was absolutely nothing stopping you working yourself, apart from
you weren't getting the work.
In some ways, the US was probably the best place Alice could have been for her 'career' once she was older. She has very little range. She can't sing or dance (or act, really), she couldn't do sexy - I have seen her sex scenes and agree with the reviewer who said they could have been used to promote abstinence in schools. She is physically very awkward when she moves. Her American accent is wobbly. But there's a certain demand on US tv for generic "ice queen po-faced British ladies" which was definitely her ballpark. I don't think she'd even pick up those roles now, not that she can be arsed.