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A Lot Of Writing About Being A Mother Is Not So Much Writing About The Kids Themselves. They Become Placeholders For The Shift That Happens When You're Suddenly In Charge Of Other People.

I Know There Is Something Out There And Like Most People, I Tend To Believe In It More When Things Go Bad.

Sort Of What You Do In Drama School When Asked To Play Something Way Out Of Your Reach. Anyway, We Used To Laugh A Lot About That. I Used To Say I'm Not Going To Act Old, Penelope. I'll Just Be Myself.

I Had No Idea That That Was Around In The Family Anywhere. Maybe It Never Was. But - So They Broke The Way For Me, If You Know What I Mean. I Have No Idea Where I Got The Idea From To Do What I Do. But I Think They - Ian And Alistair, My Brothers Kind Of Opened A Lot Of Doors For Me Onto The World - You Know, Made It Seem To Be A Very, Very Interesting Place.

Alan Rickman Was Such A Terrific Actor, And That Was Such A Terrific Character That He Played. And It Was A Joy To Be With Him. We Used To Laugh Together Because We Ran Out Of Reaction Shots. They Were Always - When Everything Had Been Done And The Children Were Finished, They Would Turn The Camera Around And We'd Have To Do Various Reaction Shots Of Amazement Or Sadness And Things. We Used To Say We'd Got To About Number 200-and-something And We'd Run Out Of Knowing What To Do When The Camera Came Around On Us. But He Was A Joy.