Now in her 70s, Joanna Lumley is as unstoppable as ever. She talks to Michael Idato about her new film, her most famous character and finding herself through travel. | michaelidato
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“People can’t imagine that,” Joanna adds. “They think with fame comes mass money, which of course it doesn’t. In my country, the stars of thefilms, some of them got 200 quid for the film. And some of them ended their lives virtually as paupers.”premiered, again in 1994 for the documentary series, and over the years for smaller projects. We met in person for the first time on the set of theOf those many conversations, one from 1994 comes quickly to mind.
“I learnt how much we shackle ourselves with responsibilities and objects. We burden ourselves with the tremendous amount of extra crap that makes our lives really miserable and tense, and then we take pills to stop being tense. It’s crazy.” “When Ruby released me into that mad world of the alternative Joanna Lumley, it was the best,” Joanna says. “It was like breathing air for the first time. I could bring everything that you’re always restricted by with a script. I was just with Ruby, who would say roughly what she wanted me to do, but it was all ad-libbed. She was inventing.
a man, maybe she wasn’t a man for a bit … so you’d create this stepladder of madness which sealed the character.” Joanna says that travel offers a rare gift. “We try things out on holiday because we want, for a moment, to escape our boring old self.”“There’s a saying that if you want to meet a wise man, don’t meet one who’s been studying books, meet one who has travelled, because travel informs you in a way nothing else does,” Joanna says.
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