Finally, and just as surprisingly, Jackson returned to acting.
Just after turning 80 two years ago, she won raves in London as a gender-blind King Lear.
One morning in January in Manhattan, Gordon finally met her idol for a long conversation, which covered poetry, film and theater, but most significantly the state of feminism today.
GLENDA JACKSON: It doesn’t have that effect on me at all.
We’d played it in London to totally silent audiences, but in New York, they applauded the songs; they shouted, “Encore!”MG: Yes, I remember it.
Persons:
Mary Gordon, Glenda Jackson, ” Gordon, Jackson, “ Marat, Sade, ”, Gordon, John Schlesinger, Alex, Peter Finch, —, King Lear, Edward Albee’s, MARY GORDON, it’s, GLENDA JACKSON, We’d, Lear
Organizations:
Company, Women, New York, Broadway
Locations:
America, London, Manhattan, New York