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.

Smith famously played Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in all six seasons of the British period drama Downton Abbey. Throughout her time on the Julian Fellowes drama, Smith delivered some sassy zingers as Violet Crawley, and a fan cut them all together. In the wake of Smith’s death, the clip has gone viral on social media.

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,