Miriam Margolyes trashes 'Mama Mia' (and discusses Dominic Cooper's member)

Love her!

Thanks for sharing!

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HorseTears, Taz, anybody!!!

Just in case you may be interested here is a link to Miriam on the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/600f1768#b00dm5mm

Not sure if the link will work in the US, apologies if it doesn't.

It is one of the only "serious" interviews I have heard Miriam give - she talks about coming out to her mother and her mother then suffering a stroke a few days later. A horrible thing to happen but Miriam says she feels guilty for telling her mother something her mother couldn't deal with.

I confess I had no idea who she was prior to this thread. (Hmmm....'blissfully unaware' of pop culture, interested in Dominic Cooper's penis. Maybe I should change my avatar to Miriam Margolyes?)

A quick check over at IMdB, however, reveals that I'm a fan of her work. Thanks for the link--I can't wait to see Mrs. Manson Mingott dishing c0ck with Graham Norton!


ETA:
from the linked program:

"I know better than they do; that is the truth...Their grammar is often bad..."

OMG--I really should change my avatar!

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Updated On: 3/17/14 at 08:13 AM

Ha! Addison, the way she forcefully corrects the grammatical mistakes of both the host and the other guests makes me think she's more of an ATC'er.

Vera, thanks for the BBC radio interview. Nice to hear a different side of her.

I also went back and checked out an earlier appearance from 2011 in which British comedian Jimmy Carr, Stanley Tucci and Bruno Mars were the other guests. In this appearance she:
* Gets furious at Wynona Ryder for "stealing" her Oscar nomination for Age of Innocence.
* Farts on the other guests and talks about it during the show.
* Talks about offering a bj to an American solider on the street when she was student
* Calls the stars of The Social Network "arseholes"
* Claims she was the first person to ever swear on television
* Discusses flashing Martin Scorsese.
* And generally makes Stanley Tucci uncomfortable

Oh, GOD BLESS this woman. Despite the farting, she is a breath of fresh air compared to the over-rehearsed, scripted celebrities who usually appear. Wish more people in the public eye had this much personality. Although I feel bad for any comedian who has to appear alongside her. Poor Jimmy Carr could barely make an impression next to such a fiery, funny woman.

MIRIAM, S. TUCCI, JIMMY CARR, BRUNO MARS ON GRAHAM NORTON - 2011 (P1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXXRyFBYLms

MIRIAM, S. TUCCI, JIMMY CARR, BRUNO MARS ON GRAHAM NORTON - 2011 (P2):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N1VVEM998E

MIRIAM, S. TUCCI, JIMMY CARR, BRUNO MARS ON GRAHAM NORTON - 2011 (P3):
http://youtu.be/Bik9PkvRxSs

Can't forget Blackadder :)

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Dominic Cooper must be one of the few British actors who've made a name for themselves recently without getting their****out.

Also, was it a zipper or button fly? How does it just flop out? And why wasn't he wearing underwear? And where is the video? So many questions...

Still, that would have to be a pretty big hole. If only Robert Stack and Unsolved Mysteries were still around. I need a dramatic reenactment of the scene. Starring Jamie Dornan.

^Don't tease me!

Gaveston - how fun! I bet she's a riot at parties. Or even 1-on-1. As much as I enjoy catching up on these appearances, and as benevolent as I'm sure she intends to be, two things do nag at me: Her attitudes/assumptions about black people (just watch her appearance with Will.i.Am on Graham Norton to see what I mean) and the frequent sweeping Anti-American statements she makes in British and Australian media. The comments about black people are, I know, a product of her upbringing and class, but it's 2014 and she's been in showbiz most of her life, no excuse really. And her anti-American stuff is just reductive and pandering speech from an otherwise intelligent and cultured woman.

Speaking of cringe-y things said about black people, here's her 1989 appearance on Terry Wogan's chat show. If you get past a couple of questionable comments, it's a really fun appearance as well. You can also see that, like any good party guest, she's been recycling a few of the same funny anecdotes for decades!

YOUTUBE - Miriam on Wogan (1989)

On Wogan she does sound excited about her American, sorta, success. Of course that was a while back.

I agree that the racial thing is shtick--embarrassing really but Chelsea Handler and many others do the same thing much more poorly. Either way I don't think you can excuse it, if you even want to excuse it, by her age or upbringing. She was born in the same generation as my mother, is a lesbian, and obviously has an open and liberal mind. She thinks it's funny. My (much) older grandmother lived half her life in England and her and her friends do not speak that way. So, as Gaveston said, it's part of her act. And I think it's more than fair to call her out on that, as much as I love her as an actress and personality.

You can't really judge Miriam as anti-black or anti-American or anti-Semitic.

She just says things from a place of devilish innocence.

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Updated On: 3/21/14 at 07:44 AM