Joanna Lumley's interview

The next highlight in the second week of production was an interview with Joanna Lumley (from the TV comedy, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS). We did the interview in a whisky bar in a hotel in Piccadilly. Joanna arrived on time and looking magnificent. She is a warm and friendly person who immediately put the whole crew at ease with her humour. The first thing she said to me, was "thank you - for writing to me and asking me to be part of this film!" She REALLY loved Spike and it shows. Jane conducted the interview and it was the heart of the film for me so far. Sweet, funny, sad, revealing, poignant, beautiful and charming.

I am now locking in the rest of the schedule which is just a long series of phone calls, emails, faxing release forms to agents, more phone calls to confirm... endless and necessary. So far we have confirmations from Michael Palin, Michael Parkinson and Beryl Virtue, Spike's first manager. She has also secured us an interview with Dick Lester, the film director who did The Beatles' films. He and Spike worked on a film together called THE RUNNING, JUMPING AND STANDING STILL FILM, of which Spike was very proud .

I'm hoping he'll have a copy of the film so I can finally see it. There are several other interviews and scenes about to be confirmed, and our trip to Ireland is looking very exciting and eventful. But more of that in my next report...