Interviewer: Hello, everybody, and welcome to our daily program "Stardom". Today is a very special day as in our studio we`ll be talking to Maggie Smith, a famous actress. Good afternoon, Maggie.
Maggie: Good afternoon. It's a great pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me.
Interviewer: What do you think is special about the job of an actor?
Maggie: For me, the people who chose me early helped me to know as a teenager that the job of an actor is to immerse oneself fully in this human - your personage - and never look back at what people are going to think of me. But I see that people get burdened by it all the time, I feel really lucky that Instagram didn't exist when we started. I don't think it's easy for beginners trying to immerse themselves in a role and then being told: "You don't have that many followers, it would be great to build that."
Interviewer: Do you like your job?
Maggie: Yes, I do. I think I needed that very kind of job, I was born to do that. Acting is about mirroring. We get to mirror what happens in a culture like that: the insecurity or vulnerability or rage or anything about being a woman, about aging, about men's perception of women. Not everybody can do that - I can.
Interviewer: What can you tell us about your current project?
Maggie: It will soon be released and it's a thriller. It was an exciting experience for me because the director made us live together in the house that we were shooting in, and the house was a practical house, a real house, and this was our character's house to our family house. We all lived there as actors and we cooked together and so on. The film has a special atmosphere due to that, I felt as if in some kind of a reality show.
Interviewer: All your friends are actors as well? Or do you prefer to make friends outside of your professional circle?
Maggie: Speaker4: With most actors their best friends are also actors. Of course, there's rivalry between one actor and another, but generally no. It's hard to understand, but there's something unique about the feeling you can get when you do the theater or are on a film set. When you're with a company of actors and you are all living in the same motel and you're going to the theater eight times a week and going to the bar every night after the show together, you formed this crazy intimacy from the exertion of the intimate involvement of doing a great play. After being on a film set, we are family for the rest of our lives.
Interviewer: Who is your favorite film director?
Maggie: Oh, that's a tough question. I guess it has to be Steven Spielberg. You can see him cutting the entire film as you're shooting one take. He's like: "Can we do it again?" Because then that's going to cut into this and that. That's its own kind of genius. Also, he's totally not afraid of the actor. He doesn't have any fear. Some people, you see that they're more comfortable being around the crew and dealing with the editorial or the shot or the composition. Spielberg is right at home equally in both arenas, he loves actors.
Interviewer: You are so famous, but you easily agreed to work with beginners in directing. How come?
Maggie: Yes. I work with these filmmakers and I think it's the right thing to do. I know the sacrifice of it. At the time when you worked on a limited budget to work with these amazing young filmmakers who were doing something really different. That's the goal for me. That's cinema history. We forever have the performances I've given with them and will continue to give.
Interviewer: Thank you for talking to us, Maggie.
