Lesley Manville from 'The Crown,' 'Another Year,' and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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British actor Lesley Manville is truly a master of her craft. You might know her work with the brilliant director Mike Leigh. She starred in some of his best movies like Secrets & Lies, All or Nothing and Another Year. These days, you can catch Lesley on the latest season of The Crown. She plays Princess Margaret. When we talked in 2019, Lesley had just wrapped up the third and final season of the BBC show Mum. Lesley joined us to talk about starring in Mum, and how she almost had a career as an opera singer. Plus, she told us about what it's like working with director Mike Leigh, and how she gets in character employing his unique improvisational style.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.4	Leslie Manville is an actor.
0:24.8	She got her start on TV in the 70s.
0:27.2	At the time she was a teenager in England.
0:30.6	Then she had a career in theater.
0:32.5	She's been in many plays with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company.
0:37.1	She's also known for her work with the director Mike Lee.
0:40.4	She starred in some of his best movies like Secrets and Lies, All or Nothing, and another
0:44.9	year.
0:46.4	These days you can catch her on the newest season of the Crown.
0:50.1	She plays Princess Margaret.
0:52.6	When Leslie Manville and I talked in 2019, she had just wrapped up the third and final season
0:57.9	of the BBC show, Mum.
1:00.5	In it she plays Kathy, a mum in her 50s, living out in the suburbs.
1:05.1	The show begins with Kathy getting over the recent death of her husband.
1:09.8	The tone of the show and Leslie's performance are both grounded, though sometimes she is
1:14.8	surrounded by madness.
1:17.2	A lot of Mum is about Leslie's character's relationship with her best friend Michael.
1:22.2	They have significant romantic chemistry, but Leslie's son Jason is an entity idea of
1:28.8	the two of them hooking up.
1:31.7	He's still protective of his late father, and he gets a bit jealous when he notices there
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