![]() Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pictures/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Globetrotter … Imrie and Judi Dench in 2012 hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. In 2011, she released her fabulously entertaining autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, a riot of a life story so eventful that it is hard to know where to begin: the time she was kidnapped on a film set in Scotland, the meal where she accidentally fed her friends poisonous berries, the horrifying, traumatic period she spent as a patient of the notorious “brainwashing” psychiatrist William Sargant, or the time she was on holiday in Italy and narrowly avoided being killed by a landslide? The list really does go on. “It’s quite an adventure.”Įither Imrie follows adventure, or adventure follows her. “I really would go to the ends of the earth for Pamela, so it’s no hardship.” Besides, she says, she loves to travel that way, to see a country by rail. ![]() “I’ve said boat in some interviews, and it’s very, very bad form – because it’s the Queen Mary 2, and it’s definitely a ship.” The journey usually takes around 10 days, in all. “Ship, I have to say, Rebecca,” she says correcting herself. Imrie rarely flies: she travels to New York by boat, then takes three trains across the US. We’ve got to the stage now where we can be really rude to each other, which of course is a huge compliment.” ![]() “She calls me, rather marvellously, ‘a dame in shit’. “She knows I’m a nightmare.” Adlon has a nickname for Imrie. And when she gives me a script that I’m not in, I just throw it straight into the bin in front of her, to make her laugh.” She chuckles. Imrie even enjoys being in LA to film it, though only when she’s working. ‘If I’m not in a script, I throw it in the bin’ … Imrie in Better Things, with Hannah Alligood as granddaughter Frankie. It has just been renewed for a fifth season, though right now, for obvious reasons, Imrie is not sure when they will be able to get back to business. The series, created by and starring Pamela Adlon, is set in Los Angeles, and follows the lives of a jobbing actor in her 40s (Adlon), her three daughters, and Phil, her eccentric British mother living next door, who is straight-talking, foul-mouthed and unbothered by social norms. In fact, she has been starring in the gorgeous US comedy Better Things, whose fourth season is only now airing on the BBC, after a near-criminal delay in bringing it to UK screens. Imrie says people in Britain must think she’s been on holiday for the last three years. “It never ceases to amaze me, because you sound as if you’re next door!” Her enthusiasm is so warm and pervasive, she can even make a humble phonecall sound like a marvel. “Isn’t it magic, the way that it works?” she says down the line, in that familiar voice, immediately recognisable to anyone who has caught one of her 170 or so screen performances. C elia Imrie is calling from Nice, where she has spent most of lockdown, finishing her fifth novel.
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