Dame Sheila Hancock says she is only still working at 88 because her contemporaries are dying. The actress says her children tease her that her only recent roles have been dying or dementia patients.
She added: “I’m getting parts because other people are dropping off the twig.” Sheila trained to play a mountain climber for her role in 2017 film Edie and explained: “The only reason I got that was that I was fitter than I am now.
They probably tried all the others and they all said: ‘You kidding?’ “And I was the only one who thought: ‘This is a lovely part.
I’ll go to the gym for three months and climb the mountain’. “But I’m incredibly lucky that I still work and get interesting work.” Sheila currently appears in ITV crime drama
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