We’ll next see her in an adaptation of a stage play, Lady in the Van, which she starred in, before the year ends.
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With the final series nearly finished airing, Smith said that she’s glad the show is finally over.
“It couldn’t go on and on”.
Asked if she’s watched the series, Maggie shakes her head, adding: “I’ve got the box set”.
But Alan, despite his very private nature, takes pity on her and says she can stay there for three months. The actress even has fans amongst the kiddies, thanks to her performance as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter franchise. “That’s television for you”.
“I was in Waitrose the other day, and a little boy was at the checkout with his mother, and he kept looking at me”. When I asked him, ‘Can I help you?’ he said, “No, it’s alright, it’ll come to me in a minute.’ It was so lovely”.
“The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett’s strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric house-less woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her to temporarily park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home”.
The USA trailer is, shall we say, less than charitable, giving the last word to a rude fruit vendor (CBS late-night host James Corden) who jokes that Miss Shepherd smells likes a corpse.
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The star played Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in every episode of the hit period drama but she is adamant that the longer the show continued, the less sense it made.
