What’s funny is Dench and Smith were friends who also were in multiple films together, and they shared a few filmed conversations over the years, which were priceless. One was a memory of being in “a horse-drawn thing” and the two of them just laugh. The other was teasing Dench for getting all the roles in the United States.

Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection, Courtesy Everett Collection Over the course of her hallmark career, Maggie received four other Oscar nominations, as well as winning four Emmys and a Tony.

Dame Maggie Smith complained fellow actor and friend Dame Judi Dench was always offered acting roles first in a resurfaced video. The iconic actors starred alongside Dame Joan Plowright in Tea with the Dames back in 2018,