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Four extraordinary actresses and friends meet, when

in time, in the English countryside to gossip, remember and laugh.

This time they have let cameras ...

- Hi, Joan. - Hello dear.

- I sit here? - Yes

For God's sake, leave me alone!

- Put a little to the left. -To my left?

- I'm Mark. Charmed. - Hello.

Let's hurry, we're taking root.

And then we could ...

It is so hot!

THE LADY MAGGIE SMITH

That angle is terrible, Mark. Really.

That is not done to an old woman.

THE LADY EILEEN ATKINS - You look great. - What do you do?

Because you do that?

You have to start by something.

Is it your first day?

- You never did it? - I think not.

Have patience with him.

Look how Jude does it.

THE LADY JUDI DENCH - How nice. -I'm like this or that way.

We are not friends anymore, Mark. Do not talk to me again.

I do not want to see you again.

Do not be cantankerous!

THE LADY JOAN PLOWRIGHT

She is not cantankerous, she is a diva!

We are ready?

- I think so. - Yes

NOTHING LIKE A LADY

If someone wants to take a break ...

I'm here, honey.

How far?

- Not much. - You're around the corner.

Very well.

I would like to start, when they saw each other for the first time.

- Judi, can we start with you? - Oh my God.

Yes, but ... does anyone remember? My Mother ...

You, Maggie, I met you in 1958, more or less.

- I think. - We represented The False Friend

We went to the Edinburgh festival, and Miles Malleson chased us.

- We went with that work to Edinburgh? - Yes, to the festival. You do not remember?

- Do not. - Yes, we had to hide!

I do not remember.

We hid between passes, by Miles Malleson.

I did not know we went to Edinburgh. We did it right?

I think not.

It does a lot of that.

I remember, Maggie, what did you say who had discovered you and rediscovered.

Yes, I'm still waiting.

Who saw Share my Lettuce ? Did you see her, Joan?

Clear! Did you not hear me? I just told you!

At that time I was depressed,

and my friends said to me: "We will take you to see one thing that sure will cheer you up.

It's a musical by Kenneth Williams, which is very funny With a new girl. "

- Do not! - And there was the new girl.

Would you say that Kenneth influenced you?

It influenced me greatly. I'm inspired by him continuously.

- Any examples? - In The Blackout,

I copy directly to Kenneth. It's kind of cheeky.

If you see it, it gives you something.

Mrs. Punnet, who is terrible and that does not stop whistling like that ... it's Ken!

Eileen, tell us about your childhood.

A gypsy told my mother that I would be a dancer.

At three years He sent me to dance classes,

and I passed them with tantrums and looking forward to going home.

At five years old,

I saw that I stayed there.

The dance school It was called KY School.

We wore it in all the clothes: K-Y.

My brother played the drums there, and on the battery I put K-Y.

The people laughed and we did not understand why.

How sad!

He danced in cultural centers.

two or three times a week,

until at my school they complained that I slept in class.

- Why did you dance all night? - Clear!

That touched pedophilia. We were all little girls.

And you decided that you did not want to continue?

I started in the theater at 10 years old,

and from then on I told my mother I did not want to dance anymore

but do theater.

We all believed that we would stay in theater actresses.

So is.

- Already. - Did they start with spotlights and makeup?

Ivory and red brick.

- Ivory and red brick was for men! - Once they gave me the "dark Egyptian".

- For Peter Pan. - But ivory and red,

It was makeup for men.

The girls added some pink.

And a red dot.

- in the lacrimal. - Of course.

Oh, yes, the red dots.

- And brownish red to get old. - Yes, stripes of that color.

Years ago, the people who left of drama schools,

I wanted to go to the Olde Vic in Bristol, or to Oxford,

where good works were done.

And one thing was done: when you went to do a work and you slept in a boarding house,

if the landlady did not treat you well,

you nailed a smoked herring under the table, before you leave.

That's true.

Tim West, once, upon returning to the pension, He found it in the dark and entered from behind.

He ran into the landlady.

sleeping with a man on the kitchen table.

She was lying down and, when Tim opened the door,

He saw it and said: "Mr. West! He's going to think I'm a shameless! "

- In the table? - In the table.

Without knowing that under There was a herring.

A herring!

How awful!

We're going through here!

From the Old Vic I went directly to represent The Cherry Blossom ,

what was it with ...

- Ah, Michel Saint-Denis! - Michel Saint-Denis, Peggy and Sir John.

- Who ran? - Saint-Denis, right?

He was very, very unpleasant.

At the end of the first act,

he came and he was making notes to the actors, to one, to another, to another ...

And when he came to me, he said:

"That nasty"

I remember that Peggy told me: "And to think that I almost married him!"

He told me: "Do not ever stop I see you cry Do not see you. "

One day, at the end of the first act, that was when I gave the notes,

Sir John said that, if he is the director, I would be happy with me.

That changed everything for me.

It changed my life in regards

to that fear of directors, because the more you fear them,

And the more times they treat you like this, You can do less Has no cure.

Good evening, uncle.

God bless you, Anya.

I went to the Old Vic Academy, that he directed,

- Judi's friend, Saint-Denis ... - Oops!

... and George Devine, and it was George who asked me to join

to the company, to what it was The English Stage Company

and then it was the Royal Court.

Michel Saint-Denis was told that they had asked me

that I joined the company, and Michel told them:

"She does not know how to play queen."

And George replied:

"The last thing we want in a contemporary theater

they are girls born to play queens. "

Let's stop. It's starting to rain.

I thought we were going to sing.

- It's raining a lot. - Yes.

Do we sit under the table?

- Timothy is under the table ... - ... be careful what you say.

Timothy is under the table. Look for another side.

Tickle me and pinch me if you want, but do not pass,

because Timothy is under the table.

and he will tell his mom.

Why do I remember that?

What is it?

It's from a musical we did. "Attentive to the fart".

It was called Listen to the Wind.

- It's a title disaster. - Yes it is.

Ronnie called him that. "Attentive to the fart".

How have we finished talking about this?

Cleopatra

- Maggie, tell us about her. - I will not talk about Cleopatra.

Already.

- Start you, Judi. - Start you.

- Do not. - Why?

Because nobody ... ha! I'm innocent of that.

Speak you.

- How "innocent"? - Speak you.

I rejected the paper four times because I did not look pretty enough.

That's where my story ends with Cleopatra.

What do you want us to answer to that?

- What? - What do you want us to answer to that?

- Well... - Eileen, look like you're stupid.

I am dumb. Pretty is not the word.

I did not have the courage. That's. I did not dare.

Nor I. That's why I interpreted it in Canada.

- But at least you played it. - That.

I did not dare, either but Jonathan Miller asked me to.

I told him that in the National I could not do it

because I did not see myself as a first option.

Half of the people would say: "I should not do Cleopatra.

Cleopatra has to be a beauty. "

That is the first obstacle.

But when you made Cleopatra, Judi, you said something wonderful.

"Are you sure ...?" Well, say it.

The what? I do not remember.

I just remember that people laughed. I prefer what you said.

When I said I was going to interpret it, the people laughed.

But you told Peter Hall ... Was he the director?

- "Are you sure you want...? ". I say so? - Yes. About the menopausal dwarf.

- That! - It's very funny.

"Are you sure you want a dwarf Menopausal for the role? "

- Totally true. - It's what it was.

Yes, it is what it was! At least as I interpreted it.

It is true!

- Where is he? - Do not dare enter.

Come on, come on!

Go ahead, sir.

Majesty, nor Herod dares to look at her when he has a bad day.

Let him cut off that Herod's head.

But if Antonio is absent, Who can I order?

They take for granted, and I talk about the critics,

that we all believe the queens of the mambo,

and that we would accept such a role. They do not realize that it gives us respect.

- What? - Totally true.

Two of us did not dare.

Maggie played it, passing nerves, in another country,

and Judi did it with fear.

Anthony Hopkins, uploaded to the monument, used to say:

"I'm going to lie down for a while while you do the fifth act. "

- That said. - Before the fifth act rests a lot.

- Yes, in the scenes with Pompey. - So much that one loses the thread.

By spending so much time there, We used to get on the monument,

and Miranda Foster and Helen Fitzgerald They told me: "What do you want to eat?"

He answered: "I would like champagne and lobster salad. "

And the night of the last show,

We were at the monument and they asked me:

" What do you want to eat? ". "Lobster and champagne ..."

They turned on the light ...

And there it was. And we had dinner.

It was hard for me to say "to the monument!" Because it's like the subway station.

I did not say it well.

"To the monument". "No, I'm sorry, I'd rather not say it."

Was not Mags, the good one of Mags Tyzack,

the one who said he did not get Say "I'm going to Argos".

In what work was it?

It was in...

What is impossible? It's ridiculous.

All the Antonios that I have known They have complained

realizing that the protagonist is Cleopatra,

more than Antonio.

I think Cleopatra is better paper that Antonio.

And they do not realize

- until they are in full play. - I see.

Alan Bates told me. "Halfway through I realized ..."

Because he wanted to make Cleopatra him!

Something of that had, sure.

It feels.

Talk a little more about fear, please.

When I'm on my way to a show, I always ask myself:

"Would you like to be trampled now?" Or: "Would you like to have an accident?"

And I answer no, but almost.

Or sometimes". I have had days I would have said yes.

In The importance of being called Ernest I made Cecilia,

and he had a phrase a little long

that said: "It always hurts separate from the people

which one has recently known.

The absence of old friends he copes with serenity,

but a separation, even momentary, of a new acquaintance is unbearable. "

And I was unable to remember it.

- Now if you're capable. - The first night,

I said the phrase and Alec McCowen did ...

And I: "Alec, you're not helping me."

And he told me that a fly had passed.

Burn it!

Why now if I remember?

For all the time you spent trying to learn it.

I only remember those things.

Can you talk about naturalism?

Was the interpretations more exaggerated? when you started?

I thought I had made an interpretation

very naturalistic, in The Duchess of Malfi ,

but a couple of years ago, I was in the Globe

and in another theater They made The Duchess of Malfi.

And one of the cast members He approached me and said:

"We have seen the television version

What did you do with The Duchess of Malfi , that for your time is fine,

but ours is more natural. "

Why do I have to be the only one,

of all the princesses in the world,

to be enclosed as a holy relic?

- I am young and somewhat beautiful. - And there are virgins who are witches.

It is a naturalism different every time, right?

Each generation believes they have found

the natural way of doing it

"Rest assured, my daughter, I do not wish you any harm.

as it is often said of stepmothers. You are my prisoner, but ... "

Oh yeah. "You are my prisoner, but your jailer

he will give you the keys. "

Exact. Exact, perfect.

Absolutely perfect.

- I will not leave again. - Yes!

It's always hard for me to hear recite an artwork of Shakespeare

so...

of natural form, with its pauses and its roads ...

Because they think it gives the impression that they are so spontaneous,

but it is that Shakespeare is poetry.

It has its rhythm and ...

In addition, it can be poetic and natural.

It seems to me...

When it's done like this, changing things, and changing the rhythm,

- It seems to me that he loses excessively. - Yes.

The Merchant of Venice, 1970 That's. Exact.

Clemency does not want strength.

It's like the placid rain of the sky that falls on a field.

She's twice blessed, because he comforts the one who gives him

and to the one who receives it!

It's as if you reduce it to yourself, to your size

instead of putting yourself at his height,

to do something else ...

I think it would be very strange if it were done as it was done

before, and I speak before Laurence.

It would be a bit old-fashioned, would not it? You have to adapt to the times.

- Yes, because it would seem strident. - That.

I think now, often, is what it seems.

- But there is a middle ground. - There is.

Dream of a summer night, 1968

Why did you come from the depths of India?

Your warrior lover and turbulent lady, the haughty amazon,

he marries Theseus.

Do you bring joy and prosperity to his bed?

It had been announced that Larry I was going to direct

the National Theater. It was approved.

I remember. I think I was going almost every week.

It was great news for other actors

and for you, those of the company.

Yes. And Maggie, you joined to the company,

- despite the fear of criticism. - So is.

I think I was more afraid Laurence than the critic.

What?

I was more afraid of your husband than the critic.

I confess.

- I don `t believe. - Like everyone, Joan.

- I do not think I've ever noticed you. - It happened to everyone.

We were terrified.

What's your name, young man?

The Recruiter, 1963 Jack Wilful. At your service.

The Wilful of Kentish or Staffordshire?

Laurence Oliver

Both, sir.

I am the head of the family of all the Wilful in Europe.

Robert Stephens Do you live here?

Robert Stephens

I have no more abode than this piece of grass.

- What do you do? - To debauchery.

- In the army, I imagine. - No, but I plan to get ready soon.

I was not always afraid.

- You were afraid of you. - I think I sometimes terrified him.

- Love-hate, let's leave it at that. - Love Hate.

I remember you told me that once entered, he called you slow

and he left because you got bored.

Solness, the master builder, 1964 - Neither money nor luggage. - Nothing at all.

And what's more: I do not care.

I'm here and I do not care.

I like that about you.

- Only that? - No.

Not only that.

The next day you were going so fast I did not know where to go.

He was going so fast that the poor I did not know what day it was.

It could have turned easily in Richard III.

I left it very dislocated.

OTELO by William Shakespeare

Did not he tell you that you mispronounced the vocals?

- And what did you answer? - What did you say to him?

I helped him get the false eyelashes.

He told me he was saying wrong, yes. I still do.

It will go away.

Let me sell you strong and ...

I went to help him with the tabs. He was there, with all the makeup,

and I said: "How about now, brown cow?"

And he only replied: "That's better".

He got very angry with me,

for not wanting to do The Skin of Our Teeth.

- Yes - "Out, diabla," he said.

But he gave me a good slap.

- It will be less. - No way!

- Crazy! -Why, sweet Othello?

Out, diabla!

He hit me!

"Out, diabla."

It left a black mark

in the face!

My mother But, as I said,

It was the only time I saw stars at the National Theater.

What times!

The lights also went up

- when he came. - Yes

If you did a little like that, I took the focus.

But you had to ...

to strain the head.

Yago!

- And poor Frank Finlay ... - Already.

One night he ran out of the stage to the pointer's corner,

doing as if to tear out his eyes.

I was scared I thought: "What happened?

And it was wearing contact lenses, and we had never taken them.

Oh!

He said: "I just saw Sir Laurence, And I do not want to see him again! "

And I could not take them off!

Imagine. Because Frank I did not see half a meter, right?

I can not help but ...

Poor man.

... die.

I think we're finished.

- The tunnel. - The tunnel!

We bought the house as a residence halfway between Brighton

and Chichester, when Larry directed the theater of Chichester,

because in summer, with so much tourist, It took a long time to leave Brighton.

We also needed a place, and country air.

When we arrived, there was only

the small house in the center.

He still had

stones of the Elizabethan period in the walls,

and the house was

surrounded by nettles,

there was nothing but nettles around the house and around the farm.

Some came to our shoulders!

OVERLAPTED TALK

Take 441 Will we take one at the ends?

- Nice respect for the message of the cushion. -Of course, like you ...

Sure we go natural.

Do not?

Go

- When did we sit like that? - How?

We have never done it!

- Not in a work. - They do not like it?

- No nothing happens. - It's prop.

It's prop. (The set of objects in a play)

The Three Sisters, 1970 I think it's from The Three Sisters.

- It's from The Three Sisters , right? - Yes.

Look what a boring face.

Are you still afraid of the first day?

The first day of filming?

Everyday. Every day they are scary.

- Is not true... - Is right.

I do not know why people It assumes that it is not like that.

Is something...

On a shoot, every day is scary. What?

Silence, it rolls!

Turn around All right.

Attentive everyone!

- It's scary every day because everything is new. - I know.

Filming is very scary because many people...

involved, and ...

all holding their breath.

Action!

Gosford Park, 2001 How horrible.

And in the end who is it?

I can not tell you. It would spoil the movie.

We're not going to see her.

If you are wrong, they remain silent ...

- Looking at you. - Looking at each other, and putting faces and ...

Sighing very deeply.

"Do you really have to repeat it again?"

- They did not let me go to the movies. - They did not like it?

It made me claustrophobic.

With those smells, and the upholstery that sank ...

I saw Hamlet , when I was still going to school.

Hamlet, 1948

- Yes, and Enrique V. - Yes!

- Those left us, it's true. - They forced us!

Enrique V, 1944

- You had to fight for the country. - Yes.

A great aunt of mine, Sarah, I think it was called,

I lived in Dublin and was inocene like a chick.

And one day he said: "I'm not going to go to the movies anymore,

because the seats are very narrow ".

And it was because I did not know that they got off.

- He sat on the edge. - I dont believe it! Did he sit like that?

- Yes. - Well, when we were little we all did it.

There, perched.

Some neighbors took me to see, and this is very scary ...

The jazz singer.

- With Al Jolson? - No, it was not Al Jolson.

Almost But no. It was Larry ...

No Olivier. Larry Parks.

The Jolson Story, 1946 It seemed very long and boring to me.

I did not like anything.

But when you get home, I was very, very angry.

- Did not it seem appropriate? - No, it was Sunday and ...

- I get it - That could not be done.

That scared me a little.

And the next one that I saw It was already Hamlet .

And I had the same fear.

The same fear.

I do not remember my father as angry as that day.

What did your parents think? What do you dedicate to this?

What did you think? that I dedicate myself to this?

I think I miss you.

How did you start? At school?

The first clear step I gave when I was still at school.

When you took the graduate, at the end of the term,

you had two weeks left in which you did nothing

I quickly left to the Oxford Playhouse.

In The Letter , I think it was,

I played "a Chinese child".

- "A"? - "A" Chinese child.

In an opium den.

- Say yes. - Well of course!

And, right at the beginning of The Letter, I made "the" Malay woman.

And of "a" Chinese child.

"A" Chinese child. Do you have an idea of ​​makeup?

With them you do not have to make an effort. They come alone.

But we know where there is money. They say: "The workers have money.

Roots, 1959 Let's give them what they want.

If you want monosyllables,

we give them to you. If they want shows third, we give them to you "

Everything is worth it.

They do not ask for more. "The business world He hates us, and we do not care.

Ronnie is right, it's our fault.

We want third-class things, and they do not. They do not give them!

Beatie Bryant in Roots

It is a leading role like few others.

Beatie is

the center of attention, the center of the plot,

it does not stay on the sidelines, it's not for decoration,

It is not a high school.

The woman is the absolute protagonist.

And one feels happy,

euphoric, when you know what's in charge.

I think so.

- I'm too honest. - What if we leave the honor aside?

The Art of Defamation, 1959 We are not among the beauties

first level.

- Already... - It was my mother who sent me

to the Old Vic Academy.

"So you're on the right track to dedicate yourself to that.

You are no beauty, my daughter,

but you have a spark

and a beautiful and expressive look.

And luckily you pulled my legs and not your father's! "

Madame, we'll see each other again.

An Age of Kings - Richard II, 1960

I was lucky.

Something similar happened to me what your mother told you

He was a school teacher the one who encouraged me to do theater.

He invited an actor to come see me, to ask for your opinion.

And without wanting to, I heard him say:

"I do not know what to do with her.

I think, surely,

be a very good actress, or can be,

but I'm worried about his physical appearance,

because it's not what you'd call beautiful. "

I heard that,

quietly, truthfully, and then the actor answered,

and it's something that during my career It has helped me move forward:

"No, it's not conventionally pretty, no way,

but you know what? It's sexy. "

I recently spent two days trying to remember Andre Previn.

I did not remember his name!

What does it usually happen?

I spend my life thinking: "What did I do last weekend?"

"Lucy borrowed money to the woman who wore waterproof boots

and plastic raincoats,

and a disheveled husband who only wore on Sundays. "

Why do I remember those things?

- Where it is? - From the Oxford Revue.

"And a pale husband who only wore on Sundays,

sitting behind the teapot offering pasta to the priest. "

I do not know. Where does all this come from?

My head is full of garbage.

It costs me a lot.

- Did they say "action"? - Yes.

- Action? - Yes.

What work? What paper?

Do you remember the first time you came?

I came with children, with my little children,

and I have a picture of Joan getting into a room

and the beautiful lime trees out there they were that tall.

Now they are huge.

It was when Richard was very small,

and Chris too.

Babies.

Many babies.

I can tell you an anecdote

of Richard, when he was very small.

In the hall there was

a forklift

And Richard, as a child,

I used to throw the letters there

that entered through the mailbox.

I remember a few Christmas

in which I found myself to Larry by his side,

because there was ...

Larry was ...

begging the child, because I could not find the keys

from the minibar that there was in that extreme.

And as he saw that Richard he made a wicked face,

He bent down and said:

"Where are the keys of dad's'ñamñam'?

I thought it was wonderful that such a fabulous actor

- it was reduced ... - To say "ñamñam".

"Where are the keys of dad's'ñamñam'?

I think that also I had put them there.

Anyway...

I guess at that time everything revolved around children.

Children scampering

Where have you gotten so dark? In Cornwall?

It does not happen to me.

My mother believes I live in a convent.

A small and remote convent.

from the south of France.

My mother has no idea

that I work in a nightclub,

dressed in lace panties.

So ...

Gentleman, please,

if you meet my mother,

do not reveal my secret.

Give an opportunity to a girl who works.

I try to remember how old was he in the 60s

33, 44 ...

26 years old at the beginning of the decade.

I think I thought

that had more to do with working in the theater,

where everything was fun, and the atmosphere was more relaxed.

- We live 60 before our time. - Maybe.

- Do you believe? - You and me, sure yes. Insurance.

- I lived them at the end of the 50s. - We were very bad, Judi.

We did not need the 60.

An Age of Kings - Henry VI, 1960

Try my courage in combat, if you dare. You will see that it exceeds that of any woman.

I would be lucky if he fought at his side.

Come, beauty, do not resist.

You're a fucking cop! A dirty fucking policeman!

I was sitting with Vanessa.

- And me. - Vanessa was arrested,

and remembered that he touched the matinee.

I was sitting ... Surely it was the same.

I was with Julian Glover, my husband then. We all sit down.

First,

they took John Osborne, then to Vanessa,

and you ... did you get arrested?

- I hid. - You hid.

Julian left and I thought: " I'm tired of this"

I got up, I went home and on the way I bought some buns.

Julian got very angry with me.

because he spent the night in a cell.

The next day he returned and he said: "What happened to you?"

And I: "Well, I thought in returning home. "

At home, sometimes, they would not let us Talk about politics or religion.

- Small? - Yes

- In my house there was not talk about that either. - Not much.

I do not remember debates at school. You studied outside, right?

I went to a boarding school in York, that was my city,

but he also had to stay there.

A Quaker boarding school. I loved it.

I remember asking about the subject, in some gossip,

and you told me that you thought it was a good idea pick you up once a week

and enjoy a moment of silence.

Calm

It's very relaxing. As a massage.

The Exotic Hotel Marigold, 2011

When Maggie and I filmed The Exotic Hotel Marigold.

in India, in Udaipur,

we went to give us a hair massage

An Indian hair massage.

That they have a legendary fame.

We thought it would be an absolute wonder.

The girl massaged our head, at two in the same room,

a room in silence and that smelled great.

And as soon as he finished, he did it!

I thought he wanted to hit us!

Are you okay?

I just want a glass of water.

That was a gin and tonic.

Now I know.

- Oh please... -It's from the York film archive.

From the cycle called "The Mysteries of York".

- It has no sound, but ... - Which year?

From 51 or 52,

If it's 51 ... a moment.

- It's you? - Do not.

Just a moment.

- Can I approach? - Yes.

Who is she?

I wish I could see it.

- I'll try to freeze the image. - That would help.

- We were wondering if it would be you. - That's what I was asking myself.

- Can you let me see it up close? - That. I do not see.

Did you already have boobs at that time?

She has them.

- Because here you have them very beautiful. - I did not have them like that.

How old were you then?

- In the 52 ... - Eighteen. Yes, that's Judi.

- See as follows - What a horror of a wig.

Dorada We all had it.

There everyone goes to see it, with the rugs to sit on.

- And is it in 52? - The Abbey of Santa María.

My father was Annas, the high priest. My mother sewed the suits.

Look. And there are a lot of shots of the preparations.

I remember climbing there.

We all went up to the arcade.

- Do you remember what color was your dress? - White with gold collar

And a golden wig.

- And that's where you are from? - I do not know, there's a bit of a ruckus there.

Like a costume change.

Those are the devils! They are the devils.

- Is that the thunder? - Yes, it's thunder.

- Wow! - Thanks, honey.

There we are! I'm there!

I remember because it slipped a sanjuanero by the sleeve.

A sanjuanero beetle?

Great. Thank you.

David Charles said: "With all our being we praise you,

Glorious God strong of all grace.

We will continue singing without ceasing and feeding on the light of your face. "

A wonderful man, Alfred Bristow,

He said: "You, sir, that you have everything,

How do you go hungry or thirsty if God is you? "

There are fragments that I remember clearly.

Wow!

- What beautiful images. - How nice to recover this.

Let's go to the step.

Here is the door. Do I put my hand in the frame?

Very well.

I subject you.

I did not sleep at all.

Do you know those nights?

I kept spinning what we had talked about

Who was given the title of Lady first? You, Joan?

- No, not to me. - Jude.

- It was Jude. - I put the red carpet on my friends.

When they named me, you called me.

and you said: "It does not change anything. You can keep cursing. "

- You remember? - You can say more swear words.

You can say more profanity, yes. But better in private.

Now I'm not going to do it.

In the United States they call you "Lady Plowright, is not it?

- And "Lady Smith", "Lady Atkins" ... - O Mrs. Dama.

Lady, Lady?

To John Standing, once,

going through passport control from an airport,

They told him: "Have One fine day, Baron. "

Because he is a baron!

"Have a good day, Baron." What about me?.

- What is said to a baron? - "Have a good day," I suppose.

Did anyone consider not accept the appointment?

Yes.

The letter was lost. Suddenly I received a phone call,

asking me if I accepted or not, because they did not receive my answer.

They told me by phone and I said: "Well ..."

"I do not know what to do, I do not know what to say."

And I remember that the girl told me: "Say yes, please."

"Say yes." But I asked for time to think about it, I do not know.

Then I was very happy of having accepted.

The Order of the British Empire, name lady of the Civil Division

to the lady Eileen Atkins for his contribution to the dramatic art.

I was overjoyed that my father was still alive.

- That's the idea. - Yes.

It is for others, for those who have helped you.

to arrive where you have arrived. Is not for you.

Appointed member of the Order of the Companions of Honor

to the lady Maggie Smith, for his contribution to the dramatic art.

I think it's much better to be lady, thing that you already were,

- before being lady . - Having two titles is quite complicated.

- People do not know which one to use! - You have to take it, Joan.

- It's much better to be l ad and someone. - Do you believe?

To me about the titles It does not convince me, really.

I think it's an insolent way to name you "artist of the people".

- But you accepted. - Yes, because they had accepted all of them.

- Did you feel excluded? - Good,

it's a kind of own recognition

of your work, right?

Lady Joan Plowright,

for his contribution to dramatic art.

I remember that, in T é with Mussolini, John, the director, said:

"This is like Dames ". And Joanie said: "No".

"One Lady and two ladies".

I remember perfectly.

Touring Rome on foot, looking for a hotel.

I will never forget.

Tea with Mussolini, 1999

We arrived at the hotel, they were taken to their room,

they took me to mine ...

It will be an error.

And as soon as I got to my room, you looked at yourself:

- "We do not stay here, it's a brothel." - "It's a brothel!"

It was 12:30 in the morning! I will not forget!

And in the end we did not stay there, but we end up together.

You and I went to the Grand, and I told him ...

You walked all Rome.

I asked the receptionist: "Do you have rooms?"

And he: "Madam, we have 150 rooms."

We went to Eden. Do you remember the rooftop bar,

where you could not eat?

We used to go up to drink something.

A bottle of prosecco whole. Then we did not find the room.

- We should not talk about those things. - No, we should not.

- And the criticisms? - You do not read them.

- You do not read them, but they tell you. - Of course. Especially if they are bad.

- Years ago, Caryl Brahms ... - I thought about it!

... he approached me at a party. I was a twenty-something.

He told me: "I'm sorry I had to be so cruel to you! "

I had not found out. I did not know what he was talking about.

Which was the kindest response.

The most diplomatic: "I'm sorry, but I do not know what you mean."

But I did not know what he was talking about!

From there I thought: "Attentive to what they say about you".

It's not very smart that.

Romeo and Juliet, 1960

I'm here, ma'am. You want?

From my Juliet said the paper Rosalind Iden would do it better.

Big mistake!

- Who said that? - Caryl Brahms.

What is curious? That was in 1960.

Curious that we still remember of criticism.

- You remember the bad. - It's better not to read them. You already imagine them.

Talk about becoming older. They seem very young!

- We act well. - Hell, Roger.

Frankly...

- Good thing I'm wearing hearing aids and I can not hear you. - Me too.

Does not anyone have a hearing aid? Raise your hand.

You need one, Jude. You need it.

Then there is the loss of vision.

- Well said. - Among all, we have three healthy eyes.

As when I said before: "We could share this and read it."

No. No, Roger said that. I said, "If we can not read!"

Judi needs Let the letter be huge.

I need huge letters. Do you know what I do not like?

That people, when you pass of a certain age, it starts ...

I always say: "If I need help, I'll tell you"

Let me know about the steps and such, but ...

It is a very delicate situation, Because yes, you need help.

but ... it's like when ...

Once I got a bumblebee in my butt.

- Last year. - Oh, yes, about ...! Account!

And a paramedic entered the room,

that he should be 17 years old, and he said: "What is the name of the lady?"

And me...

"My name is Judi."

"And where is your caregiver?" And there I lost the papers.

I lost them.

It's that I lost them completely.

I tell them I answered, although they will not be able to put it.

"Fuck off!

I just represented Winter Tales for eight weeks at Garrick! "

I got really mad. They are the things of that type:

"And where is your cui ...?"

"What is the name of the lady?". Why do they ask like this?

Ask: "What's your name, ma'am?" If you want me to tell you.

Do not ask me that way, As the children are asked.

I do not like that they ask If you have prepared the funeral.

- Please! - Miriam Margolyes asked you.

- She did have to prepare it. - She already knew exactly how to do it.

And he asked you: "You have done it?" And you do not".

And she: "Why?" And you: "Because I'm not going to die."

- Which I know is true! - How sad.

It was a very unpleasant moment.

She already has it ready, like many people

- We do not. - What if we talk about something more cheerful?

- Yes - Best.

Something more cheerful: how was it work with their husbands?

An angel has passed.

I'm thinking with which of them.

Mine was the most difficult.

- It all seemed to us. - Yes

You were not alone, Joan.

But you were not in my place.

The animator, 1960

George Bean Wine

and he said: "We would like that you will play Jean Rice. "

Obviously, it also attracted me working with him

Did you know that by his side you were not going to stand out much,

and the paper was not nothing special.

It was to share the stage with someone in whom everyone was going to fix, not in you.

But the mere idea that my name appear next to yours in the program

It was great

Hey, tell me one thing.

I want you to tell me one thing.

What would you say

if a man my age

marries a girl

about your age?

Dad! You will not mean it!

For me, it was crucial.

It changed my life.

A very strange experience.

Although it was a privilege share life with him,

although sometimes it was also A bit of a nightmare.

They were married before that he founded the National Theater,

and your career has been very linked to the National Theater.

Yes.

Do you think that made you miss opportunities

what could you have had in other companies?

Well, that's ...

It is a very difficult question, Sheridan, because ...

You know...

It was the ballast to go out and act knowing

that those who did not like

they were going to say: "Well, of course, her husband has put her. "

That was my burden.

Electra, 1974

Are good news

The first ones that you give me.

- Congratulations, if you think so. - Enough.

(Julian Glover) I do not remember working ... Oh yes!

I worked very well with my first husband, and the second was not an actor, so ...

Me too.

What was it like working with Robert, Maggie?

It was complicated.

Many times there was no problem,

but then it got complicated because he was not well,

and it was very hard,

because you did not know if he would come to the stage, nor in what state it would arrive.

Do you want a cocktail? Here are two.

Private Lives, 1972 Here, too.

First the two of you.

Did we get drunk big?

I do not think it helps. We already tried and it was a failure.

But at the beginning it was great.

You have an immoral memory, Amanda.

To your health.

Good part of all that He was very happy and very beautiful.

So that will be what I remember.

- They were the golden couple. - We were the golden couple.

Miss Brodie's Best Years, 1969 Come back, Jean.

I need you.

Judi, can you talk a little How was working with Michael?

Yes...

- How long did A Fine Romance ? - Ugh! Centuries and centuries!

It is a beautiful romance.

A Fine Romance, 1981

- Sorry. Sorry. - Oh! My head!

Mike and I had a great time working together.

But he laughed at everything.

It was a lost case. To me sometimes I laugh, but he gave a lot.

We did a work called A Pack of Lies.

There was a long scene in which Richard Vernon said:

"Have you seen a Vauxhall

with license plate AVY 129? "

And one day he told us:

"Have you seen a Vauxhall

with registration

RU 12? "

It almost had to interrupt the work.

Are they going to continue working always?

I imagine that it will not be possible, but I would like.

- Me, if they ask me ... - If they ask us ...

- How? - If they ask us.

- We will continue working if they ask us. - They always ask you first.

Do not say that!

Now I get angry with you. Look how everything is going!

A hearing aid broke. What were we talking about?

Do I leave one of mine?

No, it will not work for me. What is the last thing they said?

- What if we're going to continue working? - Ah! It was that?

And I say that Jude they give him the papers before.

One thing I tell you.

My agent in the United States he told me once,

when he knew that he could no longer do a lot, by sight.

"Well, if you want to come to shoot,

we'll look for a nice cameo

to which Judi Dench He has not yet made his claws. "

- How rude! - Nothing impolite.

- It is very bad education! - In the United States they talk like that.

Every day you have to fight with an American?

Downton Abbey, 2010-2015

Wearing those hats exhausted me.

They weighed a lot. I had a hat ...

the size of Albert Hall.

It was huge and weighed a few kilos!

And I: "Please, take it away from me!"

How many episodes did he have? How many seasons? Three?

I do not know. No, I think more.

I do not know, I have not seen it.

I have not seen her yet.

- But they gave me the DVD pack. - What?

They gave me the DVD pack.

But I do not have time.

I'll have to hurry, because even I do not get to see it all.

His Majesty Mrs. Brown, 1997

Mrs. Brown was the first queen at the cinema?

Mrs. Brown ...

Yes, it must have been the first time.

- I'm going to Deeside. - The queen forbids it.

And that changed my career.

- Mrs. Brown? - Yes, because in those years

They did not ask me to make movies. I made some movies, but few.

And now they do not stop.

Without you, I will not have the strength

to be who I should be.

Please.

Can you talk about the big shootings?

Like those in Bond movies, or those of Harry Potter?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2001

As for you,

I hope you understand how lucky they are.

Few first-year students survive to the attack of a mountain troll.

The truth is that Alan Rickman and I

we acted on base of reaction planes,

because they always record to children first, obvious,

and then they turned around, and we there ...

Like making us listen. It was extraordinary. Who is that?

It took me by surprise!

I thought it was from Harry Potter. It went very well

- Are you a camera? - You already know them.

- Already. - You know them yesterday.

But you are always on the scene.

Do you want to sit here?

Is that, now that I realize, You are the one who is there the longest.

- You want me to part? - I would love to.

Seriously, they have taken a lot of photos.

Yes.

- It's your job. - I know, honey, but ...

- He will not be angry, will he? - Of course not.

It is there all the time!

- Now he'll start making noise. - There are enough people!

Skyfall, 2012

For the love of God!

- Get out of now! Do not recognize the car? - Madam ...

Talk about Bond. I want to know.

what it is like to go jeweled

- I was not jeweled. - But later yes.

After, you say?

It was because of Michael. When they offered it to me, I was not excited about anything,

but Michael said: "I want to live with a Bond woman."

"You have to do it!".

My children went to a private school that is not far from here,

and whose most famous student It was Kim Philby.

The idol of Michael.

Who, Kim Philby?

Did you ever see the images when they already suspected him

for treason, and summoned to the press at home?

"For 30 years, Kim Philby led a double life. "

- Were you the third man? - No.

"I worked for MI6 and he was spying for the KGB. "

- Was there a third? - No comments.

"He deserted in 1963." - Every actor must see those images. - Yes.

It does not even cross your mind that is lying!

True. And it was in the apartment of his mother, right?

- Yes I think so. - There he was, listening to his lies.

And you stayed: "Do not be stupid, How are you going to cheat us? "

He was a good actor.

And good spy.

Fear was the guiding thread of the last two days.

Fear is gasoline.

- Yes. - Amazing. Tell us.

- Fear is what? - It's gasoline, is not it?

- Fear, having it, generates an energy, scares ... - Yes,

what can help you if you know how to channel it

Fabulous.

In agreement, last take.

Sorry. We are very tired. Did they tell you ...?

Did they tell you ...?

Have they told you how old we are?

- I am informed. - I do not intend to say my age.

I do not mean to say it.

"Page One" theater award.

Do you think it's good to take a glass of champagne?

Yes!

- I'd kill for one. - I think it's too late.

Why did not we think of it before?

Edith Evans had the denture to talk and to eat.

What? And do you ...?

The Importance of being called Ernesto, 1952

He was going home with the talk and then, he asked for the one to eat.

"Go for my teeth to eat, I'm very hungry! "

- Was he left in the dressing room? - Yes. I had to take her Diggy.

- The denture, you said? - I had one to talk and another to eat.

- And we do not complain. - I know!

Two dentures!

A purse?

She always said that she felt very lonely.

Well, I understand it. You do not?

Yes, but ...

And worst of all

is that I used to think horrible things about the lady Edith,

- Yes. - and now not anymore.

OMG!

Let's do something?

- Let's drink champagne ... - Be careful with those men. Watch them.

- They are mysterious. - You have to take a sip.

- I have not done this for ... - We are talking?

- What do you want to talk about? - No, I say if they're recording us already.

- Clear. They record all the time. - Ah! All the time?

- To our health. - Thank you.

- To the health of you all. - You do not drink?

- The what? - We're drinking champagne.

Very well.

What advice would you give to yourselves as young people?

Christ!

I would say ...

"Start with ...

yoga or meditation at an early age,

and learn about the brain.

and its influence on the body. "

These are things that have interested me at a more advanced age,

and that I would have liked to do before.

Joan said it connects with ...

It's a version of what I would say: "Do not have such bad character

nor be so aggressive. "

"And listen more"

- Do I still? - Yes.

Sincerely I dont know, because surely he would not listen to me.

But I would say: "When in doubt, do not do it."

- Good idea. - I think he would tell me that.

It should be a motto. I wish I could say it in Latin.

Cum Dubito Desisto (When in doubt, do not do it)

Jude

I would advise Do not be so enamored.

"It's pathetic, do not do it."

Jude!

- Do not! You have to be more in love! - Do not.

Less enamored.

Well, in any case,

It's too late.

- What else? - Who said it's late?

I said it's too late.

- It's never too late. - Joan, do the favor ...

"It's never too late to fall in love".

Where is that phrase from? Is it The Bridegroom ?

Is it The Bridegroom ?

I think it's from The Bridegroom.

You wrote reviews about Laurence.

When you went to school, did not you think ...

I wrote to my parents, yes.

He had played Hamlet ,

and I had seen first Michael Redgrave's

I told them that Laurence Olivier He was a little histrionic.

Yes. Did you ever tell him?

No the truth is no.

No, because when you fall in love

- and your world turns upside down, no ... - And then?

I think later either.

No, I sure did not tell him.

Did you see him doing Enrique V?

I remember that they took me to Plymouth to see her.

I loved. I remember it clearly.

I wrote to him, apparently.

Tamsin found a school diary of mine that said: "L. O. answered me".

That's what I was telling you.

That's what you said, Not the letter to my parents.

Do not.

That was to tell her that I had loved, of course.

- Can you keep it? - A letter from a fan?

Yes, it was a fan's letter.

And I received a letter, which I now know that Dorothy Welford wrote,

your secretary.

The signature was made with his seal.

It must have received thousands of schoolgirls.

Maggie had a hard time with him, sometimes.

- It is well known. - No, no more than with other actors.

But you were also ...

When he got sick again, My children called you.

And it was you who came to grab him by the hand.

- Yes - In my absence.

This hand grabbed "the" hand!

I remember that I made a paper in the work Semi-detached,

where I had to go out, go up and go down the stairs and go back inside.

And he said to me: "You always go a fraction of a second later "

And I: "It's what it takes. I run everything I can,

I go up, I go down and I go back in. "

And he told me: "It's an illusion, dear! No need to really upload! "

I remember going to see a work in New York, with an English actor.

The critic highlighted how he cried at the end of the second act.

The day that we were it did not.

We went to talk to him and we asked him: "And the crying?"

And he said: "I have not seen myself capable, and I did not want to lie to the public. "

And I: "If it's all a lie, from beginning to end!

After all, Hamlet gets up and go out to say hello. "

And we started to discuss

about if you had to try to cry although you do not like it.

The answer is that You must like it.

- You have to find the way. - Yes.

You have to get it and that seems spontaneous.

That is the difference between truth and illusion.

And it is over.

- I do not have words. - I do not know what else to say.

It sounds "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones.

"The party ended

They are actors, as I told you before.

Disappearing spirits in the air and they vanish.

Just like this vision without real basis, the towers crowned with clouds,

the beautiful palaces, the solemn temples,

the whole Earth

with everything that exists in it ...

Everything will fade.

And just like this insubstantial evening.

will not leave a trace.

We are from the material with which dreams are made,

and our short life ends up sleeping. "

I hope that others also do it.

- Roger! - I promise you.

- You swear to me? - I swear.

Lady Judi Dench, Lady Judi Dench ...

Lady Judi Dench, Lady Judi Dench ...

Lady Judi Dench, Lady Judi Dench ...

Lady Judi Dench, Jane Dooby Dench ...

"Jane Dooby Dench" I like it.