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Laura Kuenssberg talks to Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter. ‘It feels completely normal’: Imelda Staunton reflects on acting with her daughter
Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter appear together on stage for the first time in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, and for the pair, the experience feels surprisingly natural.
The mother-daughter duo star as on-stage counterparts in the revival at the Garrick Theatre, and despite it being their first professional collaboration, Staunton says it all feels “completely normal.”
“It’s weird that it just feels normal,” Staunton told Laura Kuenssberg in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday (25 May). “It’s a wonderful play, a difficult play, and so we’ve had sleepless nights and phone each other.”
Carter echoed the sentiment, saying, “It feels like we’ve sort of done it before, even though we never have.”
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