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'He would contort with rage' Miriam Margolyes on Rowan Atkinson’s ’disastrous’ performance
"With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.”Miriam was born into a Jewish family in Oxford, she never went to drama school, serving her apprenticeship in the BBC’s radio rep company instead where she worked alongside, John Osborne, Maggie Smith and Elaine Stritch.Even now, she remembers the first lesson of voice-work: “Vowels carry emotion and consonants carry the sense”.“You have to make words your friend”, she advises.“And I’m one of those lucky people for whom words are.
