‘The bogans were adorable’: Miriam Margolyes on burnouts and her new TikTok fame | Kylie Northover
Halfway through our conversation, Miriam Margolyes feels the need to inform me she is “extremely foul-mouthed”, as though it’s not one of her signature traits. Admittedly, the previous week she caused a minor furore in Britain when she swore on live morning television – while apologising for her previous on-air cursing.
“I mean, I hope I’m remembered for it, and I’m very pleased I was in it, but I actually think that the documentary work and my chat show appearances reach more people now.” That seems an odd aspect of one’s career to include, but to be fair, nobody does a talk show appearance quite like the filter-free Margolyes.
Not even Harry Potter? “No! I went to the premiere of two films I was in, but I fell asleep, so I didn’t actually see my own stuff. Look, Harry Potter is for children! It’s not my thing. So I wouldn’t go and see it if I wasn’t invited to the premiere. I don’t want to rubbish my stuff – I’m proud of being asked to work, and grateful because … not many actors in their 80s are working!”
“It was certainly a first – and a last – for me. I’m a bit of snob, I think, and when they said, ‘we want you to meet some bogans’ – and I knew what bogans were – I thought, well, I don’t want to meet bogans, I’ve got nothing in common with them,” she says. “But, in fact, I did feel more at home with the bogans than I did with the people I met at the polo ground!”
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