THE GRAND DAME (REMEMBERING MAGGIE SMITH)
© Lionsgate UK It's hard to believe an actress as accomplished as Maggie Smith could have been gripped by nervousness and fear. However in a 2015 interview with the Scottish newspaper, The Sunday Post , the Oscar winning actress admitted her reputation in later years for being a difficult star was often borne out of those two emotions. “Obviously at some times I have been like that," she acknowledged. "The awful thing is, I’m sort of very aware when I’m being difficult but I’m usually so scared," she confessed. “And that’s shaming, at the age one is. Because every time I start anything, I think, 'This time I’m going to be like Judi Dench, and it will all be lovely, it will be merry and bright, the Quaker will come out in me’. “But it never works. Jude has a wonderful calm, it’s very enviable. “When you’re young you’re just so thrilled to be doing it; of course you’re terrified but as you get older it’s because you realise how difficult it is to do. When you’