![]() ![]() I couldn’t possibly, given where I came from.’ She talks about her ‘big mouth’ as if it is an external entity, quite beyond her control, and indeed sometimes it seems as if it is. ‘Of course I am not as polished as they are and I haven’t their confidence. She has always been different from her fellow dames - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren - but then she says that, coming from a council estate in north London, she had a background that was a lot more humble than any of theirs. I tell her the complimentary things that the distinguished playwright Ronald Harwood has told me about her and she just laughs. I’d have been a terrible mother.’Įverybody seems to love and revere Dame Eileen except, alas, Dame Eileen herself. I think it’s a good thing I never had any children as I would almost certainly have passed on my anger to them. I’ve always put my career before everyone and I have been very selfish. ‘My parents were angry people, frustrated with their lot in life, and I inherited their anger. ‘My mother looked at me as if she had hatched a snake, but then I could be vile to her and to my family,’ the actress says. ![]() ![]() Dame Eileen Atkins is adamant that she is a horrible person. ![]()
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