Repairing Judi Dench
Yesterday, I posted a comic sketch for Red Nose Day with Dame Judi Dench, along with French & Saunders, coming to “The Repair Shop,” which is a BBC series where people bring important family heirlooms in need of repair. My guess is that she appeared in the sketch because she had been on the show itself, for real, when she brought in a pocket watch she’d given to her late-husband, the actor Michael Williams, when they’d been married for a year and were appearing in a play together.
It's clearly very emotional for her talking about him and hoping to get the watch fixed. I don’t know if this is the way the show usually is done, though I suspect not, that this was part of a special event, because mid-way through the piece cuts to them all on stage at the Edinburgh TV festival, and they talk for a couple minutes, before going back to the film to see what work was done. And then return to the stage for the Big Reveal.
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