There is nothing like a dame!

Oh good I have recorded it to watch this afternoon.

I’m looking forward to it!

Sorry but I found it really boring. I think I prefer my favourite actresses being actresses not talking about it in the absence of a clever chat show host like Michael Parkinson.

They were very guarded and seemed to resent the presence of the production team so why were they doing it?

I was so disappointed, finding it underwhelming.
When it was first released in cinemas I wondered how it could ever justify a feature film and I think I am vindicated.
Love them all as actresses and there were some lovely anecdotes, but whimsical and very, very light.

I didn't see it , but it sounds a bit like the new american film with Jane Fonda Diane Keaton et al.
www.imdb.com/title/tt6857166/

I loved every minute. Maggie Smith is just wonderful. I saw some of the performances they were talking about, including a young Maggie Smith with Laurence Olivier in Othello. I stood all the way through it, but then I was only 23 or something at the time.

I was delighted to hear Joan Plowright saying she found it difficult to listen to modern actors in Shakespeare because they often ignore the rhythm of the blank verse and treat it as if it’s prose. I’ve been saying that for some time now.

I was bored stiff by it so glad I didn’t pay to see it at the cinema I had looked forward to it and thought it awful just four old dears wittering on or now lots of silences a few giggles with i jokes a bit of old footage oh dear yawn yawn and I like them all as actresses

I too was a bit disappointed in it, finding it disjointed and rambling. Some of the old footage was interesting; but their conversation was a bit banal. And I think that JD is always acting - you never see the real person.

I thought that they were all very aware of the cameras and behaved accordingly - I didn't feel any of them were being their true selves.

I think that’s the first time we ve disagreed Nannyloveshopping???

I found it interesting

They talked quite a lot about actors and plays from their earlier days. Perhaps if you haven't followed theatre much, or don’t remember the people they talked
about, you would find it more boring than I did.

Similarly when they talked about ageing, if you are only in your fifties or early sixties and haven't reached that stage yet, you would find it less interesting. Personally, I was fascinated to know that Maggie Smith needs a deaf aid! (I don’t...yet.)

There was sadness when Maggie Smith spoke of her marriage to Robert Stephens and Judy Dench to Michael Williams, just briefly . Quite some humour from the four too

No grandma sorry I know the actresses and the plays
I m definitely not in the younger group and my friend who I was going to go to the cinema with to see it ( but we missed the date) is a greater theatre going than me having lived her young life in London and older she is 81 and was as bored as me
I found it really banal and it really didn’t seem as if they wanted to be there and couldn’t wait for it to be over
Anyway I m glad you enjoyed it

Hahaha BlueBelle that’s very funny, love you right back, oops just had very large rhubarb gin?

Corrrr that sounds nice, send one over

I'm looking forward to watching it on catchup.