‘It feels completely normal’: Imelda Staunton reflects on acting with her daughter

Imelda Staunton and her daughter actor Bessie Carter reflect on playing a mother and daughter on stageCredit: BBC

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00:00It feels completely normal weirdly and it's weird that that is weird that it

00:05just feels normal and it's um it's you know it's a wonderful play a difficult

00:12play and so we've had sleepless nights and phone each other go oh god I don't

00:15know how to do it I don't know how to do it no I don't know how to do it but it's

00:18been it's been great and normal it does it feels like we've sort of done it

00:22before even though we never have so yeah we spoke to Kate Winslick about working

00:26with her daughter in the TV drama I am Ruth and she said it was almost like

00:31telepathic in a way that it wasn't with other actors have you found that yeah I

00:34think there is just a sort of we can do a look we can get it we have communicated a

00:39couple of times yes mid scene about something and we have understood what

00:43we've meant yeah I think there is a stern look a disapproved no no it kind of sorry

00:48about that yeah sorry I just did that