Has Maggie Smith Been Playing Herself All This Time?
From Jean Brodie to Downton’s dowager, her history repeats.
7 min readNov 1, 2019
“… But she’s a very, you know, complicated and quite, in some ways, quite a defensive person. She protects herself a lot, and she needs to, because what’s going on inside her, her talent, is such an absolutely remarkable thing that it could be very easily coarsened or…
