If you'll forgive me, it was an awful week and Alan died. And I wondered if you'd all
stand up and clap.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for doing that. It's a funny time to be nominated for things and accepting
prizes when people as great as him have left us.
But I don't want to leave you on a sad note, so I'm going to tell you a funny story about
Al if I can.
When I worked with him when I was only 19 years old, I was absolutely terrified on day
one. And I remember him looking at me and I remember feeling so small, smaller than
I'd ever felt in my life.
And after a few weeks of getting to know him and realising just how wonderful and warm
he really was, I was standing there in my costume in Sense and Sensibility and my nickers
had gone up my bum.
And you know when you're trying to flick your nickers out of arse and your wearing a corset,
it's actually quite tricky. And so I was sort of yanking at my pants and Emma Thompson was
standing right there and I said oh f*** my f****** knickers have gone up my arse.
And Al just said, ah, feminine mystique strikes again.
Thank you very much.