John Wilson
speaker
3,430 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
John Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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whether they're good or bad, somehow.
It's the way they can't quite look at you.
Or they come in with a beaming face.
And my children were incredibly upset.
My children and their cousins all wanted to write into the Figaro to tell them how wrong they were about their aunt and their mother.
Very sweet.
In terms of the film roles, you've said in the past that you get frustrated sometimes by being typecast with that sort of ice queen, Aristo, English role.
But, of course, your breakthrough was in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
How about you, Fifi?
You identified a future partner for life yet?
Who's that?
You, Charlie.
Did that set the template for those sort of roles?
I think that's what happens.
I think that you are going to be the victim of your first success.
So my first real success was before that, which was in an adaptation of an even more novel called A Handful of Dust.
And that sort of put me on the map as far as filmmakers were concerned, perhaps not the public so much, but filmmakers.
And that was playing Lady Brenda Last.
So once you've done that, everyone thinks, oh, she can do that accent or she can do that.
She's got the poise, she's got the cheekbones or whatever.
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