And coming to an end of our Jane Horrocks Fest, I think the only way to properly end it is with her in Little Voice, which the previous “Five Minutes with…” interview I posted talks with her about, and I mentioned earlier. As I wrote, this is from a fascinating 1998 film, which she created initially on stage. Horrocks plays a painfully shy woman who largely hides from reality, but comes alive when she sings magnificently in the voices of other famous singers she learned from old records, like Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday and others. And she does her own singing. The play was written by her then-partner of 21 years, playwright Jim Cartwright, who co-wrote the screen adaptation, in large part because he was aware that, beside being a wonderful actress, she had this singing ability. These two clips are all one scene, in which she makes her terrified debut, having been pushed there by her mother’s (Brenda Blethyn) sleazy boyfriend played by Michael Caine. The M.C. here is played by Jim Broadbent, and Ewan McGregor is also in the film (though not this scene). In this sequence, Horrocks, as Little Voice, starts with Shirley Bassey, and then in the next video Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and British music hall legend Gracie Fields. And here is the continuation of the scene --
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