![]() It's thanks to Miss Matty that Jessie's father, Captain Brown, finally realises the attraction between his daughter and Major Gordon, now serving in India. "I don't think she's bitter at all, but I do think she regrets what happened all those years ago - having to turn down someone she loved very much." We would be unshaped if we began to move at speed."ĭame Judi comments: "She's a person who longed for marriage and children but never achieved either. He later presents her with primroses still in bud, saying: "Haste has never been our hallmark, Miss Matilda. Mourning the loss of her sister Deborah (Dame Eileen Atkins), Miss Matty (Dame Judi Dench) meets up for the second time in almost four months with her lost love, farmer Mr Thomas Holbrook (Michael Gambon). I think I understand the sex."Ĭhristmas Eve, 1842, sees lanterns lighting the way in Darkness Lane, and by St Valentine's Day love is on the minds of young and old. They know everything about everything, save when it is to happen and how it can be stopped. Intruders and robbers bring hysteria to the Cheshire village this week, as Miss Pole (Imelda Staunton) declares: "Men. Last Sunday's drama again hit the heights with 7.9m viewers, plus 3.2m for the early evening repeat of the first episode. ), with a simply delicious episode which veers from high comedy to heartbreaking emotion. Something blossomed in me again."įlowers are blooming in Cranford (BBC1, Sunday, 9pm "I started reading the sonnets and I was very excited. And once I got to the literature part of it, I was inspired again. So I started doing an Open University course and I had to do an introduction to the humanities first, because I hadn't studied for so long. "I was thinking I might go down an environmental route. "But I spoke to my dad about it and he said, `just rest, and if you don't want to do it, don't. Financially, I was very lucky and have had an absolutely blessed life. "I moved from London to Somerset and changed my life. I hadn't ever settled anywhere and I missed out a lot with friends and family."Īfter a break of three years, she is now back on screen as Jessie Brown in Cranford and appears next year as postmistress Dorcas Lane in another BBC costume drama, Lark Rise To Candleford. "I wasn't inspired by any of it and I lost the urge to act. I was just getting up in the morning and dreading going into work. Julia - Saffy in AbFab and Lydia in Pride And Prejudice - adds: "It was a gradual process during a job that I was doing. It just wasn't giving me any joy," she explains. "I was absolutely adamant I would never act again. FORMER Absolutely Fabulous star Julia Sawalha has revealed why she quit acting. ![]()
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