Penelope Wilton
in 21st-Century Drama, Actors and Performers
4th April 2019
INTERVIEW: PENELOPE WILTON. As she stars in a revival of David Hare’s 1986 play The Bay at Nice at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Downton Abbey actor discusses the highlights of her 50-year stage career with Dominic Cavendish, from the premiere of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal to her garlanded performance in Enid Bagnold’s The Chalk Garden. Recorded at the Menier Chocolate Factory, March 2019
“People say, ‘My character wouldn’t do that.’ It’s bollocks. People go out to buy a box of matches and never come home”