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And they still hurt. Years passed. I'm not exactly a spring chicken [Lansbury is 88], but I thought: "Australia — why not? What a wonderful place to go and try something. The great thing about theatre, you see, is that it's all about illusion. At my age, I simply can't get away with playing a year-old woman like Daisy in the movies.
But on stage, with make-up, I can. So the theatre, really, is the only place older actresses can still work. Perth was the high point of the tour. I discovered I had relatives there who'd emigrated from London in the s, so we held a sort of jamboree of Lansburys.
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