BEVERLY HILLS, March 2 — At 84 years old, Miriam Margolyes knows what it’s like to be elderly.So when she was offered a script by a first-time writer-director that tackles...
and enjoy FREE RM10 & when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with min. cash of RM100 today! T&Cs apply.BEVERLY HILLS, March 2 — At 84 years old, Miriam Margolyes knows what it’s like to be elderly. So when she was offered a script by a first-time writer-director that tackles aging and loneliness, she jumped at it.
“The truth, the emotion is real, the drama is not forced. It’s very organic. So I just thought: ‘I want this’.” The 20-minute piece, which also stars Stephen Fry, is a delightful meditation on the importance of connecting with another human being – across generations and races. Dorothy – like Margolyes still razor sharp, but with a body that she says is failing her – lives alone in a rambling London house. One afternoon, the young J.J. rings her doorbell to ask for his ball back after kicking it into her garden. The ball is quickly forgotten when J.J. discovers her vast collection of plays, from which she encourages him to read aloud. Their unlikely friendship is cast when she divines his – presumably unacknowledged – homosexuality, along with his obvious talent for acting. In what become daily visits, the friendship blossoms and the two tearfully understand that they finally feel “seen.”Dorothy’s life – her husband long dead, her son living on the other side of the world and a grandson absorbed by making money – is sadly nothing unusual, the actress told AFP. “The predicament of an old lady alone is not unique,” said Margolyes, a Bafta winner for her role in Martin Scorsese’s The“And we’re cut off by technology. It doesn’t help us to reach each other – it divides us.” Writer-director Lee Knight has the pair forge their connection through the very analog practice of reading aloud from playscripts. “They come to each other in a time where they need each other, and they’re lonely in their own way,” Knight told AFP. “He’s lonely; he hasn’t found his people, and she’s lonely too. It’s a simple story, but we need these stories now more than ever.” For Knight, getting Margolyes – a fixture on British television, a stalwart of the theater for decades and Professor Sprout in the“I just knew there was no one else to play it,” he said. “I wrote it very much for her, and then I never, ever dreamt that I’d get her to do it.”A Friend of DorothyAt one point, she good-humoredly tells him off for his imprecise language as he responds to a journalist’s question. “You mustn’t say, ‘Very, very unique’; ‘unique’ is enough,” she chides him, adding with a laugh: “I’m just bossy.”The Oscars take place on March 15 in Hollywood. — AFP
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