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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 356462" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;m currently reading With A Crack In Her Voice, John Miller&#039;s 1998 biography of Judi Dench (endorsed by Judi herself). Naturally, most of the book covers her extensive theatrical career, but it&#039;s pleasing that it&#039;s written while Judi was still filming As Time Goes By, so there have been a few nice little interludes with visits to rehearsals, read-throughs and sets of that series, and interviews with the likes of Geoffrey Palmer (also starring in Mrs Brown with Judi as the book was written). A Fine Romance felt like it was covered extremely quickly - in around three or four sides. All the same, it&#039;s lovely to see that it&#039;s spoken of very fondly. There&#039;s a really nice backstory about Bob Larbey writing Mike with Michael Williams in mind. Head Of Comedy, Humphrey Barclay asked Bob who he&#039;s like to play Laura in his dream world and he said Judi&#039;s name and laughed. It seems everyone was surprised when Judi - having been sent the script said &quot;I think it&#039;s rather nice and I think I might like to do it, but is there any chance that Michael could do the other part&quot;. Judi was nervous and asked for a director she knew and trusted and suggested James Cellan-Jones. When JCJ was approached about the project, he agreed as long as there was an actress he approved of in the lead role, and he suggested... Judi Dench! This is confirmed in the book. Judi is said to have been &quot;amazed by the audience response, the recognition in the street, and having champagne brought to her and Michael on an aeroplane; she said she didn&#039;t know things like that happened to television celebrities.&quot;The book addresses this bizarre moment as well, in a quote from Humphrey Barclay:Oh, and apparently when LWT&#039;s Director Of Programmes was pressing everyone to do more episodes after they&#039;d wrapped, Judi made a counter-proposal, suggesting a big screen version of the series. Now that could have really been something!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 356462, member: 23"] I'm currently reading [I]With A Crack In Her Voice,[/I] John Miller's 1998 biography of Judi Dench (endorsed by Judi herself). Naturally, most of the book covers her extensive theatrical career, but it's pleasing that it's written while Judi was still filming [I]As Time Goes By,[/I] so there have been a few nice little interludes with visits to rehearsals, read-throughs and sets of that series, and interviews with the likes of Geoffrey Palmer (also starring in [I]Mrs Brown[/I] with Judi as the book was written). [I]A Fine Romance[/I] felt like it was covered extremely quickly - in around three or four sides. All the same, it's lovely to see that it's spoken of very fondly. There's a really nice backstory about Bob Larbey writing Mike with Michael Williams in mind. Head Of Comedy, Humphrey Barclay asked Bob who he's like to play Laura in his dream world and he said Judi's name and laughed. It seems everyone was surprised when Judi - having been sent the script said "I think it's rather nice and I think I might like to do it, but is there any chance that Michael could do the other part". Judi was nervous and asked for a director she knew and trusted and suggested James Cellan-Jones. When JCJ was approached about the project, he agreed as long as there was an actress he approved of in the lead role, and he suggested... Judi Dench! This is confirmed in the book. Judi is said to have been "amazed by the audience response, the recognition in the street, and having champagne brought to her and Michael on an aeroplane; she said she didn't know things like that happened to television celebrities." The book addresses this bizarre moment as well, in a quote from Humphrey Barclay: Oh, and apparently when LWT's Director Of Programmes was pressing everyone to do more episodes after they'd wrapped, Judi made a counter-proposal, suggesting a big screen version of the series. Now that could have really been something! [/QUOTE]

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