Ondine Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 The BBC was quick off the mark with an Obituary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 sad news - one of the 'good guys' of the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Very sad news that Glenda Jackson has passed away; it always seemed to me that she was a woman of strong beliefs and integrity and also a wonderful actor. RIP Glenda Jackson. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 One of my favourite quotes ever is from Ms Jackson....talking to an interviewer about her acting technique, she said: "If I have to cry, I think about my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think about my sex life!" RIP Glenda Jackson. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 There is a YouTube video of Glenda Jackson as Cleopatra with Morecambe and Wise. Absolutely brilliant from all concerned. https://youtu.be/AtHNrRk3lQM I watched Mary Queen of Scots in parts yesterday, and today I'm able to spend a couple of hours on Elizabeth R. I can live without Women in Love, I find DH Lawrence turgid to the point of [my] immobility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Sophoife said: There is a YouTube video of Glenda Jackson as Cleopatra with Morecambe and Wise. Absolutely brilliant from all concerned. https://youtu.be/AtHNrRk3lQM "Beauty, like what I have got!" Ern never 'wrote' better... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 Way back in 1986 I used to be a Friend of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and that year got to appear as an extra in the funeral scene in The House of Bernarda Alba with Glenda Jackson Joan Plowright and Amanda Root. I remember her often in the bar having a smoke and she was surprisingly approachable. She spoke to everyone even us lowly extras completely as equals and was so down to Earth no airs and graces at all inspite of her star status at the time. She went up hugely in my estimation after that and was not surprised that later on she became a Labour MP in Hampstead. A fascinating multi talented person. I’m very sorry to hear she has died. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 Apropos of your first paragraph, LinMM, and as I’m sure you already know, Harriet Walter is doing The House of Bernarda Alba at the National from November- January. Coming back to Glenda Jackson, it’s always so lovely to hear of a star who hasn’t let fame turn their head. A true star, in every sense of the word. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted June 18, 2023 Author Share Posted June 18, 2023 I remember Women in Love and The Music Lovers, Glenda Jackson baring all in a train carriage? (And a reconstruction of part of an early performance of Swan Lake?) Time rushes past. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/15/fierce-sensual-cerebral-how-glenda-jackson-brought-class-to-cinema 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Thanks Scheherazade….. no I had no idea The House of Bernarda Alba was on at the National later this year!! Maybe it’s time for a re-visit to this play though it has high tension and drama throughout so not easy viewing!! As extras at the Lyric they sorted us into two groups …those to play extra Ladies and Gents and those to play the peasants right at the back…. needless to say what my chubby round face was chosen for lol!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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