Maxine Peake on the red carpet at the 2013 BAFTA TV Awards

Maxine Peake arrives for the 2013 BAFTA TV Awards

- You have to come.
- They don’t want him. Mellor, Mellor, Mellor, Mitchell, Mumford. Where is he? I can’t be part of something that chooses to ignore my son’s life and his death whilst remembering everyone else’s.
- I understand.
- How can you?

Don’t drink before an audition - odds are it won’t go well.

Peake, who is not a singer or a dancer, went in for a role that required both in Stephen Frears’ Mrs Henderson Presents. ‘My then-boyfriend said, “Come on, we’ll just go and have a little vodka orange to take the edge off.” Well, four vodka oranges later I rocked in, and you could see the kind of horror on the dance instructor’s face as I went at it. I think they were speechless!

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Maxine Peake at the Run and Jump World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

Maxine Peake at the Run and Jump World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival 2013 Portrait Studio with Will Forte, Edward MacLiam and director Steph Green