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I had 事件／事情／状勢s all the time! What would Barbara Good say? Who cares, says Felicity Kendal, as she tells just how naughty she can be

Published: 22:30 BST, 17 May 2013 | Updated: 09:17 BST, 20 May 2013

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Felicity Kendal is a strange creature. The lovely late Richard Briers’s word not 地雷, but I get his point.

She chops and changes her mind like the 天候. Take smoking. In one breath she says she’s given up and the next… ‘When I say I don’t smoke any more, I smoke after dinner and yesterday taking the dogs for a walk I had a smoke,’ she says. ‘I love it but it isn’t like smoking ? smoke, smoke, smoke in your 直面する. I don’t 吸い込む.

‘And I don’t smoke in 前線 of anybody ? you know, the family ? because they get cross. The only moment I was made 深く，強烈に unhappy on holiday recently was when I was sitting on the veranda. I had my diet Coke and I lit up a cigarette. Some b*****d （機の）カム over and said, “Oh, I didn’t think you smoked.”’

To tell the truth, I’m pretty 混乱させるd myself now. Hey 売春婦.

Four decades, two marriages and various love affairs have been and gone since Felicity launched a million male fantasies as Barbara Good

Four １０年間s, two marriages and さまざまな love 事件／事情／状勢s have been and gone since Felicity 開始する，打ち上げるd a million male fantasies as Barbara Good

The whether-Felicity-smokes-or-not thing has cropped up because we’re talking about Richard, with whom she appeared as one of the best-loved TV couples in British comedy on BBC1’s The Good Life. Ebullient Tom and pert-底（に届く）d Barbara Good.

Forever blissfully together in the 国家の consciousness thanks to endless repeats of the classic 70s sitcom ? but, sadly, no longer in life. Richard died of emphysema 老年の 79 three months ago. ‘Five hundred thousand cigarettes, darling ? that’s the trouble,’ Richard told me in what was to be his last interview a 事柄 of weeks before his death.

The changeable Felicity was swimming with 海がめs in Barbados with her boyfriend-cum-husband-cum-boyfriend Michael Rudman (more of whom later) at the time.

It turns out she hadn’t seen Richard for two years and 申し込む／申し出d little support during his five-year illness, 主要な the ‘lovely, lovely, dear, dear man’ (her words) to 反映する, ‘She seems to have disappeared in a strange way. She’s an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の girl. I don’t really know who she is. Never did. She was always an attractive girl and she’s still pretty young but you know she’s very strange. Enchanting, but very strange.’?

Felicity was in the middle of packing at the end of her holiday when she was told of Richard’s death. ‘My boyfriend said, “I just want you to sit 負かす／撃墜する, I’ve got something to tell you.” He told me and said, “It’s on the news and on the internet.” My スパイ／執行官 had also rung and left a message.

'明白に, you get asked to comment but I said, “Look, I’m not there.” I’m really pleased I wasn’t there, not because I wouldn’t have done it, but because I’d rather not have done it.’ Because Richard said you were strange?

‘No, because I think it’s a personal thing with somebody that’s a friend, dying,’ she says. ‘I was really, really sad. I knew he wasn’t 井戸／弁護士席 but I didn’t know he was やめる so unwell…’ She pauses for a moment and her 注目する，もくろむs, which sparkle much as they did in The Good Life days, drift off.

‘I know Dickie,’ she co ntinues. ‘I can hear him 説, “She was a bit strange. She was an 半端物 one. She was always doing this and always doing that.” That’s how he was and that’s how he talked to me. There are やめる a few people I’ve worked with I’d 現実に have thought, “That’s a bit off,” if I’d read comments like that. But I have to say, 手渡す on heart, I’m not remotely 感情を害する／違反するd.

By 37 she'd met and married Texas-born theatre director Rudman, who is now 'the boyfriend'

'That’s just so Dickie. If he was 井戸／弁護士席, he’d have probably said three interviews later, “井戸／弁護士席, 現実に, I didn’t mean it like that.” Or, “She’s the biggest cow going.”’ She sighs. ‘We used to be very, very の近くに and were for a long, long time. But I hadn’t worked with Dickie since The Good Life ? only several little 職業s three or four years ago ? so one does move on.’

Indeed. Four １０年間s, two marriages and さまざまな love 事件／事情／状勢s have been and gone since Felicity 開始する，打ち上げるd a million male fantasies as Barbara Good.

She’s now 66 but could easily pass for her daughter ? if she had one ? with her skinny-legged torn ジーンズs and plump cheeks. Spending ‘a small fortune’ on the pricey Cr?me de la Mer and Botox 注射s helps. ‘I di d try fillers once,’ she says.

‘Don’t ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high it’s chipmunk time. The only thing to do 結局 is the 十分な thing.’ She 論証するs a facelift. ‘But you have to do that when you’re 40.’
We’re 現実に here in a swish London hotel because Felicity is starring in Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious Sixties farce 比較して Speaking in the West End. Coincidentally, one of Richard’s earliest successes on the West End 行う／開催する／段階 was in the 1967 生産／産物 of the play, with Celia Johnson and Michael Hordern.

‘The lovely 宙返り飛行 is that Dickie was in it as a young man,’ says Felicity. ‘He was an incredible success so there’s a lovely circle there. It’s 始める，決める in the Sixties and is 基本的に about infidelity, love and marriage ? or not marriage. There’s the 伝統的な wife [Felicity’s 役割, played by Celia in the 初めの] and then you’ve got a very young woman [Kara Tointon], who is the young woman of today. She doesn’t believe in marriage and will have 事件／事情／状勢s when she wants.’

Much like Felicity, it turns out. ‘I always did have 事件／事情／状勢s when I 手配中の，お尋ね者,’ she says with such a Barbara-Goody-goody-butter-wouldn’t-melt smile you’d think she was 自白するing to flower arranging at the 地元の church. ‘It’s just how you are at the moment. Look, the aura of sweetness and light associated with Barbara Good has got b****r all to do with my life.

The Good Life was a short period 40 years ago but it’s 延長するd to now because it’s on all the f****ing time and it’s what people talk about. Barbara Good, she wasn’t a real person. She wasn’t a Chekhovian character with the dark and the light.

‘It’s やめる flattering that I did it so 井戸／弁護士席 people think she’s real, but in a sense Richard’s 権利. He knew damn 井戸／弁護士席 the character I played wasn’t me. I don’t think I’ve ever not had a dark 味方する. But one of the wonderful 推論する／理由s why you go into this 商売／仕事 is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else’s life. It’s 現実に a 広大な／多数の／重要な解放（する） because you’re not having to を取り引きする the itty-bitty bits of life.’

?‘Don’t ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high it’s chipmunk time. The only thing to do 結局 is the 十分な thing'

Felicity was in the 中央 of her first, tricky marriage to actor Drewe Henley, with whom she has a 40-year-old son, Charley, when she worked on The Good Life. Drewe was a manic depressive, and she struggled to 対処する.

‘Why is a moth drawn to a 炎上 when it’s going to 燃やす the s*** out of it?’ muses Felicity, who had hot-footed it to England at 17 from an unsettled childhood in India 小旅行するing in a repertory company with her actor-経営者／支配人 father Geoffrey, mother Laura and sister Jennifer.

‘My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go but you get to the point in life where you don’t have this 激怒（する）ing jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

'I’m more relaxed about things now. I don’t have the nervousness I used to have. That’s the difference between the person who was doing Barbara Good and now.’

Felicity tells me she’s living life ‘支援する-to-前線’, which perhaps accounts for her visits to the tattoo parlour. She has a moon and a 星／主役にする, and now wants a third, a 海がめ, after swimming with them in Barbados. ‘I� �ve no idea why,’ she says. ‘There’s something 先史の about a 海がめ. It’s rather 甘い but it’s also やめる fey.’

Today, Felicity says she wouldn’t 交換（する） her sixties for her younger life for all the garden mulch in Surbiton. ‘I wasn’t very 平易な in my 20s and 30s,’ she says. ‘I wasn’t a 安全な・保証する person at all in any 形態／調整. I wouldn’t like to go through that again. It was difficult.’

Indeed. Felicity was 33 when she 離婚d her first husband and began an 事件／事情／状勢 with the late Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Bolt. By 37 she’d met and married Texas-born theatre director Rudman, who is now ‘the boyfriend’. They 離婚d in 1990 after seven years of marriage, then Felicity had an 事件／事情／状勢 with 脚本家 Tom Stoppard, 破滅的な his wife, Dr Miriam Stoppard.

Within eight years choppy, changeable Felicity had returned to Rudman, with whom she has a 25-year-old son, Jacob. They’ve never remarried. ‘We sort of thought about it and then we stopped thinking rather quickly about it,’ she says.

Felicity had an affair with playwright Tom Stoppard, devastating his wife, Dr Miriam Stoppard

Felicity had an 事件／事情／状勢 with 脚本家 Tom Stoppard, 破滅的な his wife, Dr Miriam Stoppard

‘He’s got this rather American th ing of don’t 直す／買収する，八百長をする what isn’t broken. Maybe if we get to be very old it will be rather moving, but we sort of 行方不明になるd the boat a bit. He’s been married twice and I’ve been married twice.’ True, but once to each other, so isn’t one of the 離婚s rather like smoking but not 吸い込むing? ‘It’s not really that messy,’ she says.

‘We’ve written a thing 説 he’s in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 if something happens to me and I’m in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 if something happens to him. The only thing that worries me is if I wasn’t 肉体的に able to be active,’ she says.

I wonder if she wishes she’d 設立する time to see Richard during his illness. You’d 推定する／予想する her to say yes, but Felicity never 中止するs to surprise. ‘I don’t know,’ she says.

‘When Paul [Paul Eddington, who appeared as Jerry Leadbetter in The Good Life and died of lymphoma in 1995] was ill, he （機の）カム to my shows and kept in 接触する a 広大な／多数の／重要な取引，協定. We [the ‘we’ 含むs Richard and Penelope Keith, who played Paul’s onscreen wife, Margo] all visited him. That’s what he 手配中の，お尋ね者. I saw him the day before he died. I would have thought if Dickie 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see me he would have made some 肉親，親類d of approach.

‘As I’ve said, I don’t think he was very 井戸／弁護士席, bless him. It’s sad but that’s life. What he said was just Dickie 存在 Dickie on a Tuesday. During The Good Life there was nothing we didn’t know about each other. We were very, very open emotionally as friends.

'We were all going through different 段階s and we had no secrets from each other. On Sundays, instead of staying home and thinking, “職業’s done”, we’d 会合，会う up in rotation at one another’s houses for dinner. We were incredibly の近くに ? beyond closeness. That’s the way it was.

‘But the thing I find 利益／興味ing in the proces s of discussing life is that what you think today might not be what you thought five years ago and will certainly not be what you’ll think in, say, three years.

'I’ve lived life since Barbara Good.’ Which she has in her inimitably strange but enchanting way.?

Felicity 星／主役にするs in 比較して Speaking at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre until 31 August. Tel: 0844 482 5120, www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk