celia imrie talks about mixed up north, dame judi dench and meeting bill clinton

The actress is appearing in the new Out of Joint production directed by Max Stafford Clark, and when I caught up with her on the phone last week she said she couldn't wait to return to the city.
"And that's real, that's not smooge" she added in typical Imrie fashion.
She's recently been filming Cranford - penned by Garston's Heidi Thomas - alongside Dame Judi Dench, and told me what a joy it was to work with "JD".
"To say that you are lucky enough to work with Judi Dench is a fantastic thrill in your life and she's the sort of person that, I don't know how she does it, but it's a very special sort of relationship with everybody that she works with," she explained.
"I don't know how she has the time - but ours is based on the fact that she doesn't really think that I should do glamorous parts, so wherever I can I get in a grey cardigan which is what I wore when I first worked with her in a production of The Sea at the National Theatre, so you'll see I am wearing a grey cardigan in Mixed Up North ESPECIALLY for her."
So there you have it.
Celia also admitted to me she gets starstruck, and apart from just finishing a film with Woody Allen, the day after we spoke she was going to meet former US President Bill Clinton.
"Somebody asked me on an interview who would I most like to meet, and actually I would love to meet him and I hear he's a wonderful speaker, and somebody read the article and they've invited me," she told me.
I wonder if she wore her cardie?

Read the rest of my interview in today's Echo:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2009/11/04/celia-imrie-excited-by-liverpool-show-of-mixed-up-north-100252-25085158/