Don't Be Defeatist, Dear, It's Very Middle

I Don't Think Films About Elderly People Have Been Made Very Much.

It's Easy To Get Bogged Down In Bad News.

Alan Rickman Was Such A Terrific Actor, And That Was Such A Terrific Character That He Played. And It Was A Joy To Be With Him. We Used To Laugh Together Because We Ran Out Of Reaction Shots. They Were Always - When Everything Had Been Done And The Children Were Finished, They Would Turn The Camera Around And We'd Have To Do Various Reaction Shots Of Amazement Or Sadness And Things. We Used To Say We'd Got To About Number 200-and-something And We'd Run Out Of Knowing What To Do When The Camera Came Around On Us. But He Was A Joy.

I Don't Think Films About Elderly People Have Been Made Very Much. I Think Of Cocoon And Driving Miss Daisy. But They Always Seem To Be Fairly Successful, So It's A Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five-years-old.

It Seems To Me There Is A Change In What Audiences Want To See…i Can Only Hope That’s Correct, Because There’s An Awful Lot Of People Of My Age Around Now And We Outnumber The Others.