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Alison Steadman: ‘I never thought I would live in such strange and scary times’ – The Guardian
The actor is back from lockdown with two new dramas. She talks about her 50-year career, Boris Johnson and the joy of miaowing at John Cleese, while James Corden, Julia Davis and Mike Leigh pay tribute

It took less than a week of lockdown for Alison Steadman to start making puppets. Supplies werent a problem; this is a woman so anti-waste she thinks supermarkets should charge a fiver for plastic bags and donates her old hair to the birds. Its very good for nests; its soft and it complements the grass and sticks.
So, come late March, she decided to knock together a Mr Punch to entertain her grandson on FaceTime. Id got all the stuff: toilet roll holder, newspaper, flour, plasticine, Christmas …
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