Anyone who ever interviews a serious actor / star should watch this interview. Brandreth knows both their careers better than they do, he knows just the questions to ask, and he doesn't insert himself into the discussion unless he has something genuinely interesting or witty to add. Result: they both respect him, trust him and are therefore more relaxed and forthcoming.
I love the way that Dame M is so interested and focused on what Kathleen Turner says. So down to earth, grounded and also modest. What a wonderful woman, wonderful actress, great, great talent. Witty, charming. People say ‘Legend’ a great deal. But she was. Already greatly, greatly missed. The world is a poorer place without her precious soul.
“Can I borrow your barrier?” “Can we have dinner?” What an introduction! Thank You Giles Brandriff for leading this marvelous interview in your oh so genial way. Quite the trifecta.
Thank you for posting this, who would have thought they would be friends! I wish he would of asked how they both felt about Eileen Atkins. She and turner hated each other.
What a delightful and unexpected interview. One of the things that I absolutely love about Dame Maggie is how graceful her hands are. She had the ability to speak volumes with just her hands.
Such a wonderful and interesting conversation and deeply touching. Brings tears. And chapeau to Gyles Brandreth for the tact and sensitivity of the way he draws out these two remarkable artists.
What a wonderful, respectful, relaxed, and honest interview this is! Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. I'm still processing Maggie Smith's passing as she was one of those fixtures in our lives that made it seem she'd outlive each of us. I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to listen to each of you pay such attention to one another sharing. Brilliant. 💌
That was absolutely brilliant. I do love Gyles and Maggie of course. I would never have thought of Maggie and Kathleen having such a connection. They say opposites attract.
Many are questioning whether this was truly Dame Maggie's final interview, but she was always known for giving few interviews and being intensely private. Also, the description clearly states it’s from 2021. Instead of debating it, simply appreciate this masterclass in interviewing. We rarely had the chance to know her beyond the screen or stage.
Another friend that Dame Maggie made back in NYC in the '50s was also a mutual friend of Julie Andrews and that was the actress Alice Ghostly (who was so hilarious in the sitcom "Designing Women") and that is how she came to be the one to accept Maggie's Best Actress Oscar for her.
I was half in tears watching this, knowing Dame Maggie isn’t now around 😢 Gyles is such a good interviewer, I’m so glad this last interview was captured!
I could of watched this for another hour. I haven't seen or heard anything about Kathleen in decades. And Dame Maggie may she RIP. She was such a wonderful actress.
It is absolutely wonderful! So insightful. I watched this interview in awe as this two lovely actresses recounted their life experiences. Thank you to the interviewer for having such warmth and putting them at ease. Wonderful!!
I live in London and remember what KT was doing the Graduate. People were so excited that she was here. I'm surprised they didn't have to shut down the entire street to manage the throngs of people. I saw her a few years later in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf and she was magnificent. Not all film/tv actors can manage stage. But she could. I'd love to see her again.
Never seen Gyles speak so little , he clearly respects them both a lot. For those who don't know him, he's an interesting person in himself and broke records for speeches. He can talk to an almost athletic degree 😅
@@AndyRossism Gyles is an amazing man who can talk at length on most subjects he’s also written some books on the royal family including Queen Elizabeth ll, Prince Phillip also Charles & Camilla.
What makes her loss so much more profound is how well she looks / is...body,mind,soul and essence so complete. I'm not sure what happened, but she is so full of life here..just hurts more as I feel Maggie had so much more to give 😢
She was clearly very unwell for the last year - I knew when she didn’t come to Wimbledon this year or show up for anything with the Miracle Club. Aside from the Loewe photo shoot her last public appearance was at the Coronation and she looked over it poor thing
I worked with Maggie wayyyy back in the early 70s in Spain on 'Travels'. We both ended up on the cutting room floor. A story I've dined out on for over 50 years.
Her career was very long and demanding, during those over 60 years for sure she had her ooos and downs. She had very strong mentality and even when she was contradicting herself she wasn’t very hard on herself, with such a big expectations from industry and people, deep down she probably was which is not easy to handle. Being on the set sometimes she was „ dropping”her ( very high) acting skills to help other actors to get the scene right which I found very tactful. Plus people during old age can be much more melancholic. For sure she was a true Dame in her profession. May she rest in peace 🙏🏻🫶🏻
Maggie looks so different in this, her hair, her clothes, her gestures, almost like a "teenager", very "youngish", love it, I'm used to seeing her dressed like an old lady, a grandma, but not here
Don't ask me what its actual composition was, but size was applied to scenery as a fire retardant. Theatre's then were terrible death-traps all manner of electrics for the sever lighting.
Maggie STOLE the VIPs from Liz & Dick. Their story was so slow, painful, and thick... Maggie's story with Rod was wonderful and fresh... and she was wonderful & fresh! So good! She owns the movie
Watch Kathleen Turner’s expression at 19:55, at the mention of Eileen Atkins. In her memoir, Turner recounts, during a period of poor health, how Atkins would purposely grab at Turner’s painful arms and hands with the intention of hurting her. She didn’t like Atkins at all.
Yes she did--In the summer of 1990 I saw Dame Maggie on Broadway in the brilliant comedy Lettice and Lovage, which was written for her by Peter Shaffer: AND I saw Kathleen play a superb Maggie (no relation to Dame M) the Cat in a marvelous revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They say comparisons are odious and they are, as well as often ridiculous. Theatre gossip at the time said that Kathleen really, really wanted to win the Tony. Well in my view, they were both winners; but Maggie was at the peak of her powers in a play written for her; so the Tony voters voted for her. And I would have to agree. But both women were---marvelous; I was so fortunate to see them both! (By the way, I noticed in the interview that that subject was NOT brought up; the diplomatic thing to do, I think!)
Ffs even something positive like this people have to bother making negative stupid comments the Internet really has become a toilet bowl. Such people don't deserve such an wonderful invention.
"Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner In Conversation with Gyles Brandreth was originally broadcast on Thu 8 Apr 2021, in support of The Royal Theatrical Fund."
@@sinkhole_of_happiness Thank you. Again I emphasize the need for dates on TH-cam because we’re not seeing them anymore and the heading I got was that it was from one day ago
@@caroledrury1411 ah yes, but there is an info box underneath the title of the video. You click on the right side where it says "more". That's where I copied it from!
Anyone who ever interviews a serious actor / star should watch this interview. Brandreth knows both their careers better than they do, he knows just the questions to ask, and he doesn't insert himself into the discussion unless he has something genuinely interesting or witty to add. Result: they both respect him, trust him and are therefore more relaxed and forthcoming.
You're totally correct. Thanks for saying.
Fully agree. A brilliant interview.
absolutely
He is amazing! And he respects them both so much! and knows the timing to give these legends equal time!
Sometimes the algorithm just delivers a gem
I was took here without knowing why! Sometimes the algorithms do us more than well
I love the way that Dame M is so interested and focused on what Kathleen Turner says. So down to earth, grounded and also modest. What a wonderful woman, wonderful actress, great, great talent. Witty, charming. People say ‘Legend’ a great deal. But she was. Already greatly, greatly missed. The world is a poorer place without her precious soul.
So well said and so true!
I couldn't agree more.
Me too.
People like Dame MS should live until 190 years or more. Such a gifted Actress.❤
A Beacon of Light ☀️ in our world.
“Can I borrow your barrier?” “Can we have dinner?”
What an introduction!
Thank You Giles Brandriff for leading this marvelous interview in your oh so genial way.
Quite the trifecta.
Dame Maggie Smith was always a delight to watch. She will be missed.
I'm ready to subscribe to Netflix again just to be able to watch and rewatch lovely Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey!
What a priceless piece of footage. Thank you for adding it to the channel.
I would never pair those ladies together, but what a wonderful surprise. Amazing interview . Thank you, Dame Maggie Smith ❤️
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Thank you for posting this, who would have thought they would be friends!
I wish he would of asked how they both felt about Eileen Atkins. She and turner hated each other.
One of the best interviews I have ever seen. Everyone is so interested in what everyone else is saying.
Very old school - not the grantee get today.
This is how interviewing should be conducted!!! Bravo!
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What a delightful and unexpected interview. One of the things that I absolutely love about Dame Maggie is how graceful her hands are. She had the ability to speak volumes with just her hands.
Such a wonderful and interesting conversation and deeply touching. Brings tears. And chapeau to Gyles Brandreth for the tact and sensitivity of the way he draws out these two remarkable artists.
Two absolute legends! What a wonderful friendship they shared. Thank you so much for this beautiful interview. Well Done!
Just wonderful agree great interview, I loved Kathleen’s lovely words to Dame Maggie she was so visibly moved by them.
You're so right; I felt the same!
@@tracys9222 it brought tears to my eyes when Kathleen said those lovely words to Dame Maggie Smith she was so touched .
What a wonderful, respectful, relaxed, and honest interview this is! Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. I'm still processing Maggie Smith's passing as she was one of those fixtures in our lives that made it seem she'd outlive each of us. I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to listen to each of you pay such attention to one another sharing. Brilliant. 💌
Beautifully said thank you.
A masterclass on interviewing. Two very opposite beautiful friends and a superb interviewer.
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That was absolutely brilliant. I do love Gyles and Maggie of course. I would never have thought of Maggie and Kathleen having such a connection. They say opposites attract.
Many are questioning whether this was truly Dame Maggie's final interview, but she was always known for giving few interviews and being intensely private. Also, the description clearly states it’s from 2021. Instead of debating it, simply appreciate this masterclass in interviewing.
We rarely had the chance to know her beyond the screen or stage.
Ms. Turner had a very very interesting & educational upbringing. Saw the world & heard different languages & observed different cultures.
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Thank you Gyles , Maggie & Kathleen this was absolutely amazing. ❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing this interview with these two marvelous ladies... Much Love, Kathleen Turner and Rest In Peace, Dame Maggie Smith...
Kathleen must really miss her 😢😢😢😢😢
3 legends just riffing for an hour! I am in heaven
What a delightful treat to find this. Thank you one and all.
This was just wonderful. The knowledge in this room about acting and performing is incredible.
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This timestamp is Kathleen telling Maggie how much she loves and cherishes their time together 😥😥♥
I’m so glad this was recommended so wonderful to see these fine actors telling there story Maggie you will be missed terribly 😢
Finally. Been waiting for this to be released for years
What a marvelous program--Thank you so very much!
Another friend that Dame Maggie made back in NYC in the '50s was also a mutual friend of Julie Andrews and that was the actress Alice Ghostly (who was so hilarious in the sitcom "Designing Women") and that is how she came to be the one to accept Maggie's Best Actress Oscar for her.
Loved Bernice! So hilarious!
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You are very educated on this !! Thank you !! ❤❤❤❤
When Maggie was on The Carol Burnett, Alice Ghostly was in the audience. ❤❤❤❤
All Truest of friends!!!
Alice Ghostly played Samantha's (Elizabeth Montgomery) aunt on Bewitched.
She was so touched I and love her sharp interruption „Oh stop it!” 😂🫶🏻
I was half in tears watching this, knowing Dame Maggie isn’t now around 😢 Gyles is such a good interviewer, I’m so glad this last interview was captured!
Yes so sad Dame maggie Smith is no longer with us . A wonderful actress Left so many great memories .❤
Absolutely delightful interview - I am so glad to see this final interview with Dame Maggie Smith - what a treasure
Thank you very VERY MUCH FANE for sharing this. ❤❤
That was exquisite to watch your questions flowed so well thank you as I watch from deepest darkest Peru
Wonderful interview,two awesomely great women who obviously shared complete admiration and love for one another,beautiful to see ♥
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I could of watched this for another hour. I haven't seen or heard anything about Kathleen in decades. And Dame Maggie may she RIP. She was such a wonderful actress.
*could HAVE
What a beautiful and Enchanting interview between these two women.
It is absolutely wonderful! So insightful. I watched this interview in awe as this two lovely actresses recounted their life experiences. Thank you to the interviewer for having such warmth and putting them at ease. Wonderful!!
What a fascinating interview.
What an absolutely fascinating, wonderful, joyful and heartwarming interview. Thank you so much.
incredible !! thank you so much for sharing !!
Delightful. Thank you for sharing this.❤
So much talent, and wisdom. Thanks for sharing.
Dame Maggie is and will always be a star, first on stage, screen and box, now up in the heavens. Bless her. ❤
Wonderful interview and thank you so much for bringing it to us.
thank you for posting!
Delightful! Thank you so much.
I live in London and remember what KT was doing the Graduate. People were so excited that she was here. I'm surprised they didn't have to shut down the entire street to manage the throngs of people.
I saw her a few years later in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf and she was magnificent. Not all film/tv actors can manage stage. But she could. I'd love to see her again.
What a legend ! so modest and self effacing ..refreshing to see ..talented witty and a real treasure .RIP beautiful lady ❤
A delightful conversation.
Kathleen Turner was in London at the height of the Swinging 60's, beehives & miniskirts & great music.
I loved this, absolutely wonderful.
This is absolutely superb.
Fantastic interview !
so glad Kathleen picked Serial Mom as one of her favourites.
Brilliant interview
Thanks for this post! X
I loved that. Thank you ❤
Never seen Gyles speak so little , he clearly respects them both a lot. For those who don't know him, he's an interesting person in himself and broke records for speeches. He can talk to an almost athletic degree 😅
@@AndyRossism Gyles is an amazing man who can talk at length on most subjects he’s also written some books on the royal family including Queen Elizabeth ll, Prince Phillip also Charles & Camilla.
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What a glorious interview, what a career!!
These two women are the greatest actresses and artists!
Polite gentle rapid applause to the three ladies and bravissimo bravissimo to the elderly gentleman speaking with the rather false accent.
Wow, completely rediscovered Kathleen Turner! What an exciting childhood and what an interesting woman!!
Wow Kathleen Turner's 1000 year time capsule picks would be War of the Roses & Serial Mom, my favorites. Love that 😄
Lovely. R.I.P Maggie
Dearest Dame Maggie. May Flights of Angels Sing Thee into The Arms of The Beloved
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Greatly apreciated, here from BRASIL!!!!!!
What makes her loss so much more profound is how well she looks / is...body,mind,soul and essence so complete.
I'm not sure what happened, but she is so full of life here..just hurts more as I feel Maggie had so much more to give 😢
She was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 74. It might have returned.
She was clearly very unwell for the last year - I knew when she didn’t come to Wimbledon this year or show up for anything with the Miracle Club. Aside from the Loewe photo shoot her last public appearance was at the Coronation and she looked over it poor thing
Loved loved it!
Is that a Hockney painting behind Kathleen? It just caught my eye.
Turner was magnificent in Body Heat
This is truely lovely!
I worked with Maggie wayyyy back in the early 70s in Spain on 'Travels'. We both ended up on the cutting room floor. A story I've dined out on for over 50 years.
A lovely interview, both incredible women, I’m not sure Maggie has really enjoyed her career, she has an underlying sadness, I thought.
Her career was very long and demanding, during those over 60 years for sure she had her ooos and downs. She had very strong mentality and even when she was contradicting herself she wasn’t very hard on herself, with such a big expectations from industry and people, deep down she probably was which is not easy to handle. Being on the set sometimes she was „ dropping”her ( very high) acting skills to help other actors to get the scene right which I found very tactful. Plus people during old age can be much more melancholic.
For sure she was a true Dame in her profession. May she rest in peace 🙏🏻🫶🏻
@@Meggie951she didn’t take herself too seriously, yet extremely talented and professional 😊😊😊❤❤❤😢😢😢
Widow & decades of health issues, she continued working, trouper. Watch Tea With the Dames, no sadness.
@@emmahart7500 she’s an Aquarius ♒️ - deep
Thank u
Maggie looks so different in this, her hair, her clothes, her gestures, almost like a "teenager", very "youngish", love it, I'm used to seeing her dressed like an old lady, a grandma, but not here
Sweet 🥰🥰😊
What a treasure they both are!
The two ladies had great love of each other, God I wished I could have that kind of supports from my former colleagues in my 30 years of career
I saw both those performances, wonderful actresses.
Don't ask me what its actual composition was, but size was applied to scenery as a fire retardant. Theatre's then were terrible death-traps all manner of electrics for the sever lighting.
Thank you 😀❤️👍
both awesome
Thanks to Gyles, Kathleen and the late Dame Maggie! 🤩
A masterpiece
Bravo to the 3 of them
beautiful. I like Giles from his canal journeys with Sheila Hancock. Love Maggie, Kathleen is good too. x
Maggie STOLE the VIPs from Liz & Dick. Their story was so slow, painful, and thick... Maggie's story with Rod was wonderful and fresh... and she was wonderful & fresh! So good! She owns the movie
David Harbour played Nick. Lol KT hit Sheriff Hopper 😃
Wonderful. Kathleen too is a real talent and a treasure. She seems so much more ‘English’ than american!
Beautiful to my ears, costuming is an art unto itself
Watch Kathleen Turner’s expression at 19:55, at the mention of Eileen Atkins. In her memoir, Turner recounts, during a period of poor health, how Atkins would purposely grab at Turner’s painful arms and hands with the intention of hurting her. She didn’t like Atkins at all.
During this run, Turner was missing a lot of performances for health reasons. Dame Eileen Atkins called her " a wonderful nightmare."
Diddn't Maggie S defeat Kathleen T for the Tony?
Yes she did--In the summer of 1990 I saw Dame Maggie on Broadway in the brilliant comedy Lettice and Lovage, which was written for her by Peter Shaffer: AND I saw Kathleen play a superb Maggie (no relation to Dame M) the Cat in a marvelous revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They say comparisons are odious and they are, as well as often ridiculous. Theatre gossip at the time said that Kathleen really, really wanted to win the Tony. Well in my view, they were both winners; but Maggie was at the peak of her powers in a play written for her; so the Tony voters voted for her. And I would have to agree. But both women were---marvelous; I was so fortunate to see them both! (By the way, I noticed in the interview that that subject was NOT brought up; the diplomatic thing to do, I think!)
@@blanchefan Thanks for the thorough reply.
@@blanchefanthank you!!❤
Sublime perfection ⭐️
Delightful 👏👏
Kathleen is sooo beautiful!
This was a Sheer Delight!
R.I.P Dame Maggie 🙏🏻
I was like 15 when I saw Body Heat. I took Kathleen Turner’s success as a given then.
Ffs even something positive like this people have to bother making negative stupid comments the Internet really has become a toilet bowl. Such people don't deserve such an wonderful invention.
good ad for no cosmetic surgery.
Kathleen Turner is reminding me of Lauren Bacall
Body Heat, War of the Roses, and The Accidental Tourist are excellent movies.
I wish people would put dates. If Kathleen Turner says she’s 64 in this interview so this Hass to be about at least five years ago
"Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner In Conversation with Gyles Brandreth was originally broadcast on Thu 8 Apr 2021, in support of The Royal Theatrical Fund."
@@sinkhole_of_happiness Thank you. Again I emphasize the need for dates on TH-cam because we’re not seeing them anymore and the heading I got was that it was from one day ago
@@caroledrury1411 ah yes, but there is an info box underneath the title of the video. You click on the right side where it says "more". That's where I copied it from!
@@sinkhole_of_happinessthanks !!