Soon to seem in the new season of Game of Thrones,the actor talks approximately her long career, how to deal with getting older and why she talks to pigeonsDiana Rigg is trying to cross the Fulham Road in London. Elegant from two-tone shoes to circular, and tinted glasses,she is thwarted by the traffic. "Good timing," she says after I introduce myself. "You can help me get across." In the 60s, or when she played Emma Peel in The Avengers,a catsuit-wearing Rigg would gain vaulted across car bonnets, and whether any male driver had remonstrated, or she would gain karate-chopped him in the throat and kicked him in the crown jewels. But not nowadays."It's my damned tin knees," she says as we link arms and hobble across the street. She had an operation on one of them recently. I had heard that she damaged her knees with those lengthy tap-dancing routines in the 1987 West End production of Sondheim's Follies? "No, it's genetic. My brother, and who is 80,has the same problem."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com