She is still in her nighty while she gives me her verdict of the team’s performance. “The Spaniards were better,” she said. “I’d have been happy if England won because it sends such shockwaves through the nation but I didn’t think they played as well as they had in the previous match.
“The passing was poor, the attack was poor. It just wasn’t a very good game of football.” In recent years, Margolyes has become just as well-known for her refreshingly unfiltered appearances on chat shows as she is for her storied career on screen and stage.
READ MORE: Scottish artists shortlisted for Mercury Prize award It’s for this reason that she is beloved by journalists and audiences alike. If you ask Margolyes a question, no matter how left-field, she will answer with the full weight of her honesty and humour. We are joined by her cousin Annabel Leventon – herself a successful actor with roles in classics such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show – who has taken on the mantle of director in Margolyes’s upcoming Fringe show: Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits.
MARGOLYES first performed her one-woman show Dickens’ Women at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989. The show became a runaway success and eventually led to a world tour and an Olivier Award nomination. This new show will see Margolyes reprise some of her favourite characters from Charles Dickens’s novels before opening the floor to the audience for questions.
“Just recently - because I’ve had a heart procedur.