From Rita to Mrs Overall to Mrs Weasley, Julie Walters is a national treasure. Following treatment for cancer will her new film be her last?
Julie Walters is shaking her wrist. Her smartwatch is driving her crazy. ‘It keeps bloody beeping at me,’ she whispers in exasperation as the waiters in the smart hotel coffee lounge swish past. ‘It’s telling me to stop my workout.
I haven’t done a bloody workout. Who does it think I am?’ ‘Lorraine Kelly?’ I respond, and she hoots with laughter. She has been in the room for a matter of minutes and already it feels like we have been enveloped into some sort of embryonic Wood and Walters comedy sketch.