Another Side of Miriam Margolyes
I've tried for such a long time to avoid doing this post - but sometimes, and in a moment of weakness, one's sense of proportion fails.
Many will mostly know Miriam Margolyes from two of the 'Harry Potter' films in which she played Professor Sprout. Where she's a safe and cosy commodity.
But she can be much less so, as you may also know from her appearances of the Graham Norton Show.
I love her on being out as a lesbian and and life modelling for Augustus John ...
... and her 'service' during World War Two ...
The whole point of this post, of course, is to demonstrate there's just something special about great diction.
Wouldn't you agree?
"Great diction," indeed. And what a MARVELOUSLY interesting life she's having!! Thanks for sharing these. Inspirational, actually.
ReplyDeleteBased on her experience with the American sailor in Cambridge, I'd say she's really a gay man. Gosh, I remember so well, there was the time I'd just bought some pork chops and ...
hi paul
Deletei find myself mesmerised by Miriam's diction. it's such that i find i hear every word she says - in a way, another version of Gertrude Stein's 'a rose is a rose is a rose' where repetition is all that will make the words actually heard
and i remember the time i was in a lift ... (a similar experience i suspect!)