Radio Times

Saturday 21 November

Features

Lindsay Duncan's big break - Radio Times, December 2005

"It was [Grown-Ups,] a Mike Leigh drama for BBC Playhouse. After Nuts in May [1976] and Abigail's Party [1977] he was someone you wanted to work with. All his work is improvised. With Mike you never know anything as an actor that you don't know as your character [a middle-class woman in an emotionally barren marriage]. When you're used to being aware of a whole script, that's like walking blindfolded. You're working in isolation until you're put in contact with another character. There was a faint paranoia - you wondered whether everyone else was doing a more interesting storyline than you."

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Read about Lindsay Duncan as Servilia - or take a look at our full Rome guide.

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