Glenda Jackson (1936-2023) 🖤 Interview, March 2019. ⛓️:
, in 1974). On television, she has been awarded two Emmys . And yet, perhaps her most satisfying role to date came outside of acting in 1992, when she was elected as a Labour MP, a post she held in her native Britain for more than two decades. In 2011, after years as a thorn in Margaret Thatcher’s side—and, later, Tony Blair’s—she announced that she would be stepping down from politics. “It was,” she has said, “time for someone else to have a go.
JACKSON: Simply by working with actors who had been actors for as long as they had been, I learned through osmosis. The repertory system is hardly still in full flower, but I would hate to think it’s going to be gone forever. Practically every city in the United Kingdom once had a repertory theater. The quality of them tended to be dictated by how long they ran their shows—weekly, fortnightly—and the work that was available to you was dependent on what drifted down from the West End.
JACKSON: It was an amazing opportunity to be allowed to do it. But I look at my country now and I wonder what the hell we think we’re doing. One of the big disappointments for me going into Parliament was that quite often it felt like more of a PR exercise than actually getting things done. But it is still such a humbling thing to be a member of Parliament.
JACKSON: It’s probably because I always forget that there are microphones and cameras, so it never occurred to me that anybody other than the people in the chamber would hear what I was saying. But truly, I don’t know why. I think it goes back to this thing that women are regarded as a homogenous group. And when we moved from where we’re first allowed to vote to actually being parts of government, we were automatically presupposed to be ideally suited for all the caring issues.
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