Dame Maggie Smith's brilliant career
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2015
- These days Dame Maggie Smith, a veterans of stage and screen, is best known for her role in TV's "Downton Abbey." But she also has a new movie out, "The Lady in the Van," about a character far different from Lady Violet. Mo Rocca had some questions about that and more.
There is no argument to the simple fact that Dame Maggie is in the top five of the greatest actresses of all time! Adore her and am in complete awe of her work! She is not only great in drama but quite a good comedic actress also!
What a gem. She completely inhabits each character she plays, to the point that we forget we're watching Maggie Smith because we're so mesmerized by her performance.
+Terry Foraker I love love LOVE her on downton abbey. She's hilarious and I literally can't wait until her scenes come on.
Thats happen to me in Downton Abbey Even though she doesn't like it
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She's got a good sense of humour
mbmajor01 yes, not the stupid interviewer though
She is hilarious! I watched another interview with her and she made me laughed the whole time.
She deserved a fucking oscar nomination for her latest role "The Lady in the Van"
She deserves an Oscar for simply being born.
Well, she DID win an oscar in 1970.
She has two... One for leading actor(female), and supporting actor(female) for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978) respectively !!
Thank God she is recognised, Academy has record being shitty to talents !!
She was nominated for a BAFTA for it, the British equal to an Oscar.
There is too much british flangs to be acceptable in usa's awards.
She was being sarcastic the whole time and he took her so very seriously. What a shame!
I thought he was very genuine and didn't pretend not to be starstruck and she was very relaxed and full of humour, I thought it was a really nice atmosphere.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who realised that. It was a ridiculous fawning interview, she hated every minute of it and consoled herself by being sarcastic. I think she knew in advance that he wouldn't realise it.
He's just an average clueless American.
Ya, she was over it. Poor guy was treating her like a grandmother. Little did he know, she's still as quick as a whip. Brilliant old broad.
Not all of us Americans are clueless; certain areas, yes, but not all of us are clueless. One could argue that we don't have accents that sound as if we're reciting glamourous poetry, but we do know how to stand our ground if we have to.
She is a jewel! One of the best actresses in the World!
Such a legend! She is one of the best actresses of all time!
Chris Psihogios Yes
So much class, brilliance and empathy. The Brits have a treasure in her.
I just love Mo Rocca....he's so adorable and such a fun, intelligent interviewer.
That moment in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie where Maggie is screaming "Assassin! Assassin" is still stuck with me. She is for sure one of the greatest!
Giacinto Bottone yes the same screaming scene that stuck with me when I first watched that movie as a boy in the sixties, except that the screaming words that stuck in my ears were “ treason! treason!” until when I recently watched the movie again and to my surprise her screaming words at the end of the movie were “assassin !assassin! “😀
And so so so beautiful!!!
Couldn’t have ever been a better Minerva McGonagall. Maggie Smith has performed magnificently in every role she has had. I truly hope she continues her work for as long as she’s able to!
I loved Maggie Smith ever since seeing Sister Act for the first time when I was a kid, she's a brilliant actor it'll be a sad day when she goes.
i don’t like her here’s the reason why... at my school we had a supply teacher who was an actor and friends with the woman who played the librarian in the first couple films of harry potter. she told him about her experience. apparently maggie didn’t like the fact that the librarian had a taller hat than her! she also hated the fact that the librarian got to sit next to alan rickman at one point. guess what she did? she
got the librarian fired. apparently she was always complaining and being rude.
@@d8188 You don't like her because of a one sided heresay story? Get a grip.
Maggie is so beautifully flawless. I really do love her.
She is a brilliant actress and has wonderful personality. LOVE her completely!
She can still won her grammy. Under the Best Spoken Album category. Now, if only anyone will persuade her to make an audiobook :))
+hanleoms that's what I thought. they love giving that award to famous people. I mean Hilary Clinton even has a Grammy
She did also an audioplay version of the Lady in the Van
Can you imagine if she read Harry Potter?
@@Chaoren85 If she ever does I'm gonna play it on loop everyday.
Harry Potter read by Professor McGonagall is definition of outstanding. Only thing that could've made the scenario better if Late Alan Rickman joined her too.
I'd listen to a recording of a phonebook on a loop if it was read by her...
She's so charismatic!
I absolutely love Maggie Smith, especially in her Downton Abbey reign..her whit and simplicity of things said really stole the show!
I'll always remember her
as Minerva McGonagall❤
I’ll always remember her as Mrs. Medlock from The Secret Garden. That was the first movie I ever saw her in and I was awestruck. 💕💕
I will remember her as McGonagall too. The roll couldn't be better for her. And I'll buy her Wand as soon as I can. I hate to say this, but:" Ten points for Gryffindor"
Damn, that was hard, but I treat it to Gryffindor and to McGonagall, I'm a good Slytherin💚🐍🏰
I never really knew Maggie Smith until the Harry Potter series. It wasn't until I read the comments section of a clip when I realized her significance in acting and film.
Hooray for Gryffindor!
Mother Superior from. Sister Act for me.
This woman is an absolute treasure! I don't think that I've ever seen Mo Rocca so restrained and reverent. I'll bet that it was nerve wracking trying to contain himself with a legend. LOL.
+2legit64 I agree, but Mo was not the right person to interview her. Maggie i think is a workaholic, i think working is good because you need a reason to get up in the morning and it keeps you active and why deprive us of her enormous talent (a bit selfish) she is really a A list thespian and one of Britain's best.
American interviewers often worry internally when faced with Brit posh...
She is a wonderful, humorous, down to earth human being and one of the greatest actresses of our time. I just watched 'The best exotic Marigold hotel' again yesterday, and seeing her, along with Judi Dench, is the best mix for a wonderful evening ;)
The Lady in the Van, is such a wonderful bitter sweet film, and I really hoped she would have gotten an Oscar nomination for it.
+Shane Cadden I haven't seen it, but it looks like a great movie, is it current or is the dvd for purchase.
It was in cinemas in Ireland before Christmas, so it should be on DVD soon
Thank you.
Great film but awful ending
She has won two Oscars (Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite).
"That is an easy caveat to accept, because I'm never wrong." 😀
This is one of the greatest actrices ever. She can play the phonebook. Give her anything in any movie with any great star, and she will act them completely of the screen.
I LOVE HER!!! I wish there were more interviews with her!!!,
I love the way Maggie's jaw just drops when she sees herself on Carol Burnett.😊
i LOVE maggie smith. She makes me laugh, cry, think and can take any roll and make it awesome. She's just just AWESOME!!!!
Never saw Downton Abbey, nor Miss Brodie, but I do love Dame Maggie of Travels With My Aunt, Sister Act and Harry Potter. I absolutely must see The Lady in the Van, which I just found out about here. I have been homeless, myself, and I knew an 81 year old lady who lived in her van, so there's something to which I can relate.
Maggie Smith is magnificent.......and so is Downton Abbey!
I can't wait for the movie; also wish Downton Abbey would go on and on......
She was asked on the Graham Norton Show if she would do another season and she replied, "Oh, heavens no! By now the Dowager Duchess must be 115!"
Actors/resses such as Maggie that have been acting well over 30 years DESERVE some kind of AWARD! Bless her and may she out live us all.
One of the best performers of all times.
So, so, ridículous unfair she didnt got an Oscar nomination for lady in the van, so sad
She got the Oscar long before that anyway. its better than never, like Glenn Close.
She should have won one for the prime of mrs Jean Brodie
Totally agree. 👍
Wasn't Maggie a Scot? 🤔
@@future288ify She did. Also for CALIFORNIA SUITE. She's got two.
Love Dame Maggie! She, Julie Harris, Bette Davis are among the greatest actresses of all time. Love and admire her work!
I will add Judi Dench to that list.
and Katherine Hepburn.
I loved her since The Secret Garden.
She has brought so much richness to the set of Downton Abbey. It's my first time seeing her - given that I'm not a Harry Potter fan. What a wonderful career and a beautifully talented actor
8:15 "Those were the days..." 😂I love her.
She is a great actress. Very entertaining and charming. Excellent on Downton Abbey as Violet.
I saw her son, Toby Stevens, as Prince John in Robin Hood. She taught him everything!!
She once said she never gave him an advice about career and never encourage her sons to follow her footsteps, so it means he's a great actor by nature. :D
@@GabiFOliv Pretty sure he learned a lot by observation nontheless.
She can still win a Grammy!
When she said ''those were the days", gave me such a sad feeling, it must be hard for you, to convice yourself that you were that person, once...
These still are the days - No one else quite like her , she has her own sound, look, sense of comedic timing, and spirit!
The interviewer could not really comprehend that she did not really appreciate or want to see that old film of she and Carol Burnett. Also one really sees the awkwardness between the american mentality and British. Having lived and adapted to both I can see and feel it very profoundly.
My experience with people like Dame Maggie is they live in the present and don't look back unless there is a point. That is the secret to their longevity and youthful outlook on life.
Yes, I immediately recognized her discomfort, but people can get so caught up in their good intentions that they sometimes overlook other's feelings.
That's an interesting interpretation. I thought that she found watching the video (and by extension, looking into her past) terribly sad-- the way you remember happier times that you can never again eclipse.
I suspect it has something to do with their stages in life. He still looks fondly into the past with a sense of nostalgia, whereas she seems to regard it as a fossil record..."those were the days," and these are the last hours of dusk, so to speak. No wonder she doesn't watch her own work. It's a reminder of her mortality.
But I don't think this is a differentiation between American/British mentality. It's something of a timeless, universal theme. Or did I misunderstand you? Did you mean Americans are more emotionally expressive whereas the British are more emotionally reserved? The proverbial "stiff upper lip?"
+globalman I also think it's just her personality, she doesn't seem to enjoy looking back at the past. Very in the now. I was surprised how nice she was to him. Have seen some interviews where she has made her contempt for the interviewer as clear as she could without using obscenities.
She was sitting with a gay fawning interviewer (who could blame him); I am sure she saw this and responded in her usual, wry way. How about reuniting her with Carol?
Hurrah! She is tolerating the interviewer. We don’t like schmaltz in the UK. X
Don't be so over the top. She's not that uptight.
I adore you Dame Maggie Smith.
shes such a legendary iconic actress why hasnt she got a hollywood walk of fame she was in tuns of american films just as much as british films
What an extraordinary Treasure.....Much Love to Dame Maggie Smith
Maggie is a Diva!!!
THE Diva. 😍
I LOVE THIS ACTOR.
SHE'S SO VERSATILE AND HER DRY WHIT GETS ME EVERY TIME.
LONG LIVE DAME MAGGIE SMITH
The most amazing, wonderful Lady. It’s unfortunate that actresses like Maggie Smith are no longer in theatre, or on screen.
I enjoy many of her films. I pray she makes many more.
The interviewer keeps slaughtering her humour. She keeps making small jokes and he kinda answers in an expressionless, kinda not-feeling-it way. Was a bit annoying.
+Ahsan Zaman I agree, why they chose him is a mystery.
+Ahsan Zaman Who is this idiot? And why is he employed to do these things?
+Ahsan Zaman
He is out of his element, other than Charlie Rose I doubt CBS has anyone in their stable of interviewers who wouldn't have been.
Steven Barker his name is Mo Rocca (birth name is Maurice Rocca) and he is a journalist, humorist and actor. He used to be a regular correspondent on The Daily Show from 1998-2003. I remember seeing him on The Daily Show back in the day, both with Craig Kilborn and Jon Stewart.
Mo Rocca must have connections because he is so awful but manages to work annoying everyone.
I first saw her in the movie "secret garden", such a great actress!! love here 😊😊
Maggie Smith seems rather unconcerned with the past, quite eager to go on to the next project with hardly a backward glance. It's hard to know whether or not she was grateful of, or even pleased with, her time on Downton Abbey.
They were pretty grateful to have had her though I'd bet, because she was a HUGE part of why Downton was a success.
I think she's just a true actress. Gives her all to each performance and then leaves it there to move to the next one and giver her all to that one
Agree Great quality to own
Omg I love her so much
Somewhere Sir Lawrence Oliver is bragging that he once got to act with Dame Maggie Smith!
That made me smile :) !
One of the best actresses alive. Incredible performance every time.
An acting agent - phrase that is used way too often. And then there is Dame Maggie Smith. No words can describe her genius.
I love Dame Maggie Smith brilliant and such an amazing actress
Brilliant, just Brilliant!
The one and only, the incomparable Dame Maggie Smith.
SHE IS PRECIOUS AND WE MUST PROTECT HER AT ANY AND ALL COSTS
Some actresses PEAK in their twenties and it's a constant state of anxiety to keep up with the next flock of pretty starlets who get the leads and star opposite men twice their age. Maggie Smith upgrades every scene in which she appears. She looks better, more herself, as an older woman. We are lucky to have her as an example of tenacity into the ages!
I absolutely Love this incredible woman! :) one of my favourite movie stars ^^
First time I saw her in "Keeping Mum" ... I was spellbound by her act.. she was indeed a Grace.. her acting is very captivating and realistic.. there is some magic in her voice..
She's a very intimidating interview because she's no nonsense and not really a talker especially about herself. She really would be a level above Judi Densch if not getting type caste early into overly confident powerful roles such that no one cast her as really vulnerable etc.
What an comedien/actress!!!!!!! phantastique!!!!!!! Much love from South of France with my admiration!!!!!!!
Such a delightful human being, long live Maggie Smith!!!!!
I think that so many people, undoubtedly unfamiliar with Mo Rocca's very unique and very dry sense of humor, failed to see what at least I felt that I saw. It looked to me that she very much enjoyed him, and he was clearly in awe if her. It was sort of a "nod, nod, wink, wink" beginning to end, at least once they began to understand each other. And, I think they enjoyed playing off of each other. I believe what others have also observed, that Maggie Smith would have simply cut the interview short had she not enjoyed it. I didn't see one place in the interview to make me think otherwise, as she never pulled her punches, while Mo, in utter awe of Maggie sought to play the foil to whatever direction she took on, further highlighting her, as he should have. In fact, I felt that I saw just a hint of flirtation, which I found very intriguing.
I agree they both have a very dry sense of humour
One of the Greatest talents! Love her!
🥰 she was in the VIPs 1963 with Rod Taylor and I just thought her and her “bitter lemons” were hilarious 😂😂 not to mention a cast of Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jordán, and Richard Burton. Dame Smith has always held her own on the screen 👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽
Wow, I love the moment when she sees herself on Carol Burnett.. You can see all the memories passing through her eyes..
I ADORE HER. I could literally watch a show centered just around the Dowager and Mrs. Crawley bantering.
If you have never seen Evil Under the Sun with Peter Ustinov. She is hilarious.
Yes yes yes!!! Loved it!
"We were in the chorus together. But even then, I couldn't compete. She could throw her legs into the air higher than anybody. (Off to the side.) And wider."
One of the funniest ladies ever! A global treasure to be sure!
The brilliant. Eternal Dame Maggie Smith ! What a career and enduring stamina,she is unstoppable and we love her to keep going strong !
I felt the same as Dame Maggie. As a Brit living in the States, my first memories of visiting NY was That it’s like being in a movie. And now living in Los Angeles, i too notice the brightness and was told many years later the lighting here is different and thus a great location in which to film.
The first time I saw the peerless Maggie Smith was as the tragic Judith Hearne in the incredibly sad film 'The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne'. A shamefully overlooked and relatively unknown film from 1988 which also starred Bob Hoskins. Any one who hasn't seen this classic gem simply MUST see it.
Yesss Maggie Smith I just love her spirit
she's my QUEEN!
She's brilliant.
a genius i love all her movies
Thanks God Harry Potter came in screens, otherwise i would never know this awesome masterpiece artist in region where i live) The Lady in The Van is spectacular story, she is such a strong woman, reading her biography, i wish her good health, hapinnes and many many roles to come
Such a brilliant Actress and magnificent Soul! Love her madly! ❤
I think she is the best actress in the world. So real. So wonderful... In "Dawnton" she is so fantastic. Thank-you
There is nothin’ like a Dame
She is lovely. One of the best. I was going to use an exclamation point after "One of the best", but then I thought Dame Maggie Smith might disapprove.
Lol! Love the interview! Even through it happen 6 years ago.
Simply A LEGEND
I Love You Maggie Smith
I do wish that one could find the British interviewing this great lady,Lord, it all Anglo/American!!!!!!!
Love this woman very much! She is amazing and an inspiration to all!
First movie I saw Maggie in was "Love And Pain and The Whole Damn Thing." Fell in love and stayed that way. She's my all-time favourite.
I have been a fan of Dame Maggie ever since I was a kid. She really is the queen of the acting world.
I want ths story series to go on & on & on. Miss it. 6-4-19 - cant' wait for the movie :)
Oh, do stop it. . .
Ha! she's a marvel!
Attrice e persona ... fantastica...
I love dame Maggie Smith
What a lovely interview and such a sweet lady
I’m so fond of Dame Maggie Smith
What a life!!! Talented actor, gifted humorist, and clever as ever always. I appreciate her contributions to entertainment.
I always know it’s going to be worth watching when her name appears.
I very much admire her for not having her face mucked up by plastic surgeons. She ages gracefully and is just perfection💁🏻♀️
wow this was one awesome interview maggie is so refreshing!
"Oh do stop it!" LOL. Queen!