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Ms Margolyes is best known for playing Professor Sprout in Harry Potter<\/p>\n
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She also made a heartfelt public appeal to David Essex, her former co-star in a 1993 West End production of She Stoops to Conquer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf David Essex watches this, I\u2019m really keen to see him again,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how to get in touch with him, but he\u2019s so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking directly into the camera, she added: \u201cDave, it\u2019s Miriam\u2026 I\u2019m nearly 85, and I don\u2019t want to die before seeing you again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The actress has been open about her health challenges<\/p>\n
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Ms Margolyes also spoke openly about the physical challenges of ageing.<\/p>\n
The star revealed that a long-standing shoulder injury has left her unable to dress independently.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a bad shoulder\u2026 the rotator cuff doesn\u2019t quite cuff or rotate,\u201d she said, adding that pelvic floor weakness is \u201cthe worst bit\u201d about reaching her eighties.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interview, the actress disclosed she has earned significantly more from Cameo than from her role in Harry Potter.<\/p>\n
She said she has made around \u00a3570,000 on the platform since 2020, nearly 10 times the \u00a360,000 she earned for appearing in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2.<\/p>\n
Charging fans \u00a3100 per personalised video, Ms Margolyes said many requests now involve advice and \u201cpep talks\u201d rather than simple greetings.<\/p>\n
The actress added that the additional income allows her to \u201cspend rather more freely\u201d, despite insisting the Harry Potter franchise was not her most significant work.<\/p>\n
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Miriam Margolyes in 1972<\/p>\n
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Ms Margolyes also admitted she had not fully grasped the cultural impact of Harry Potter on fans\u2019 childhoods at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people say on Cameo, \u2018we\u2019re having a Harry Potter themed wedding,\u2019 and I would say, \u2018Well, I think it\u2019s time you let that go.\u2019 But you can\u2019t let go of bits of your childhood, and I didn\u2019t realise that because it wasn\u2019t my childhood,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was in my 50s or 60s when I did that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miriam Margolyes has revealed plans to leave the UK and spend her later years in Italy with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,451,13379,18,16,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-30791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-harry-potter","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sgg","13":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116533423837273539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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