Dave Davies

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You play this – I mean he's an iconic figure for the English in the 20th century.

I wanted to play a clip here.

This is one of many meetings that the prime minister had with the sovereign.

The queen here is a fairly young Elizabeth played by Claire Foy.

And the prime minister would regularly meet with the queen.

This is one where an argument erupts when the queen relates that her husband, Prince Philip, wants to become an aviator.

Let's listen.

When you got this role, I mean, I imagine that Churchill is the kind of guy that everybody in England can do an impression of.

Was it daunting to take this on?

I mean, the role had been played by a lot of other people.

You know, I really love the series.

And, you know, when you came on and the first time you were on screen as charge, oh, God, yeah, there's John Lithgow.

Yeah, I recognize him.

Pretty soon it wasn't John Lithgow.

I mean, you were Churchill.

I mean – and one of the things I read is that you –

Placed little balls of some material in the jowls of your cheeks to give you that – that thing going?

Really?

You're better at an English accent now than you were when you played Churchill?