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...Dench: What you long for is doing something that's very different from the last thing you played. Because people's tendency is to see you in something and send you a script, saying "Here's a very good part." And you find it's something terribly similar...
...justify or condone the abuse of minors. That salacious aspect is the wrapping. And I like that Sheba herself, whenever she sets out to explain why she's done what she's done, the words turn to sawdust in her mouth. There's the moment when she and [Dench's character] Barbara are at the pub and Barbara says, "There's no but about it--he's 15," and Sheba says...
...Dench: No, you don't have to sympathize with her. People are always asking me, "Do you like the character?" But you don't make that decision about liking or disliking. The only decision you have to make is what motivates...
...Dench: Oh, I don't know that it was harder than Lady Macbeth, for me. Or Cleopatra. But there are aspects of it ... My husband--when he was alive--and I did Mr. and Mrs. Nobody. We were playing [a married couple] the Pooters. I remember we said, "Oh, this is going to be an absolute breeze." But it was one of the hardest things we've ever done. We were absolutely shattered. So, always, I go into something thinking, Oh yes, I think I know how I'm going to do this, and that's the moment that somebody...
...Dench: That's about my big gambling problem! [Laughs...