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There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

I rarely meet other young actors.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.