Imelda Staunton 伊梅达.斯丹顿 Imelda Staunton. She’s worked in theatre and in film. Imelda was born in London to Irish parents. Well, I was on my own a fair amount, I think, in the evenings. I’d come home through the shop, you know, and that was great, and that was lovely and busy. But then I’d go upstairs and, you know, you’re on your own. And I think, you know, I maybe created a world for myself. Off she went to drama school. The moment she arrived at RADA she knew she wanted to train there. And you went into RADA and you went onto a stage, and they were in the dark and you were lit. And I thought, ooh, this is what’s right. I thought well I’ll never never get in. And I remember my mother coming in and she said, “There’s a letter here from the Royal Academy, shall I read it, shall I read it?” “Yep, if you like, yep.” So she opened it, “Dear Imelda, I’m delighted to say,” and I said “Don’t joke about that, don’t do that to me, that’s not funny,” because I thought that she can’t be [serious], and it was. So that was it. The film Vera Drake did brilliantly at the Oscars and Imelda got to work with the famous British director, Mike Leigh. Well, I felt that was a job well done. And we finished it, it’s time we finished, we’ve been doing it long and hard, and I knew the experience I’d had was the most fulfilling of my working life. I think there seems as if there’s a lot to it, if you talk it up. If you’re going to build a wall, you have to know how to get the cement, and you have to know in one way technically how to do it. But any emotional input, that’s up to you, no director can give you that, but at the same time I do just like to do it.