Interview: Suzie Mackenzie meets Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is often seen as austere, but most often she plays comedy. A contradiction? Well, the fact is she excels at high drama and, as Suzie Mackenzie discovers in a rare interview, she's funny, she's a great mimic, and has an unexpected gift for intimacyThere is a story that, at the end of his life, when Sir John Gielgud was 96 and pretty reclusive, a friend asked him if there was anything he could do for him, …