Dame Judi Dench is the Queen. Dame Maggie Smith was (sadly, she is greatly missed) the Dowager Countess. The one role wasn't _suited_ for the other. AND what's a queen without a court? And we musn't leave out Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright either. The literal peerage of British acting. (And if you haven't seen "Nothing Like a Dame" ("Tea with the Dames" for Yanks, Ozzies, and Kiwis) get thee to a streaming device and WATCH IT... these four bard-arse old ladies dish on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, *including* their producer. The f-bomb *is* dropped. Save your tea for later lest you ruin a keyboard.)
Why compare? Both are incomparable. In the arts, we are above having just one queen
We have not judged them just make one healthy comparison
Dame Judi Dench is the Queen. Dame Maggie Smith was (sadly, she is greatly missed) the Dowager Countess. The one role wasn't _suited_ for the other. AND what's a queen without a court? And we musn't leave out Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright either. The literal peerage of British acting.
(And if you haven't seen "Nothing Like a Dame" ("Tea with the Dames" for Yanks, Ozzies, and Kiwis) get thee to a streaming device and WATCH IT... these four bard-arse old ladies dish on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, *including* their producer. The f-bomb *is* dropped. Save your tea for later lest you ruin a keyboard.)
Enough of this! It is wrong to try and pick one over the other!