“I nearly didn’t do it because I said to my agent, I’m sick of playing northern mothers, and this was a northern mother. “I don’t think I’m a very good judge. Then I realise I don’t look remotely like Julie Christie, and that’s always a great sadness to me. “I don’t think she has the foggiest idea how many people come up to me every week, every day, and say, when’s it coming back? She hit something gold there, and I don’t think she realises it.” She will be appearing in a new BBC comedy series, though, called Hold the Sunset, with John Cleese and Alison Steadman.

Source: The Guardian November 09, 2017 17:48 UTC