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Breaking Baz: Maggie Smith “Could Make Grown Men Cry” Because She Was A Perfectionist And Giant Of The Stage – In “Top Tier” With Judi Dench & Ian McKellen
Maggie Smith's longtime UK stage producer discusses the icon's reputation for "making grown men cry" and more with Baz Bamigboye, who covered Smith for decades.
Fox produced Dame Maggie in some of her greatest stage hits from Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage to David Hare’s TheBreath of Life, in which she and her best friend, Judi Dench, shared top billing at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket. Quite rightly, Dame Maggie’s family — while acknowledging the success of her work on Downton Abbey and the Harry Potter films — want people to know that the stage was her first love, and where she shone brightest. Her last performance on stage was in Christopher Hampton’s A German Life at the Bridge Theatre in 2019, where she played a woman who had worked with Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi ministry of propaganda.
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