Ruth Jones interview: Sister Act (The Sunday Times)

The actress is starring in Sister Act. She talks about her favourite show, The Archers, and her schooldays with Rob Brydon

Afew weeks into rehearsals for her role as Mother Superior in the musical Sister Act, Ruth Jones had a dream. A nightmare, you could say.

In it, the formidable Maggie Smith — who played Mother Superior in the 1992 film on which the musical is based — was challenging Jones over her take on the role. And she wasn’t impressed. “She came to me and said, ‘I hear you are playing her Welsh? Oh no, no, no, that will not do,’” Jones recalls with a laugh, imitating Smith’s Downton Abbey dowager tone…