VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Downton's Maggie Smith, 80, transforms into The Lady In The Van in newly released trailer for movie
Academy Award winner Dame Maggie Smith is set to be a box office sensation in new movie, The Lady In The Van, as a new poster and trailer is released.
The 80-year-old Downton Abbey star plays a transient woman who forms an unexpected bond with a man who lets her park in her van in his driveway.
Having planned to only stay for three weeks, the protagonist Miss Shepherd, remains on his property for 15 years, as their friendship blossoms.
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New look: Academy Award winner Dame Maggie Smith is set to be a box office sensation in new movie, The Lady In The Van, as a new poster is released
The movie, which stars James Corden and was created by Alan Bennett's own diary entries about the lady who lived in his own driveway, until her death in 1989.
During the moving trailer, it becomes clear that Miss Shepherd is quite an extraordinary character, who is rather well educated and can speak French.
She becomes so close to the family whose Gloucester Road driveway she lives on, that they even give her Christmas presents, which she haughtily receives.
Sweet: The 80-year-old Downton Abbey star plays a transient woman who forms an unexpected bond with a man who lets her park in her van in his driveway
'Shut the door. I'm a very busy woman,' she exclaims, before shutting her curtains swiftly.
She then can be seen painting her trusty grey van a bright shade of yellow, although it's not exactly done to perfection.
'But it's all lumps, you have to mix it', says her landlord of sorts.
'I have, I have mixed it,' she replies. 'Only I got some Madeira cake in it.'
Odd jobs: She then can be seen painting her trusty grey van a bright shade of yellow, although it's not exactly done to perfection. 'But it's all lumps, you have to mix it', says her landlord of sorts
Why thank you! She becomes so close to the family whose Gloucester Road driveway she lives on, that they even give her Christmas presents, which she haughtily receives
Mostly true: The movie, which stars James Corden and was created by Alan Bennett's own diary entries about the lady who lived in his own driveway, until her death in 1989
In an interview with the Telegraph, Alan said of the lady: 'Even I didn’t know her well. But I knew what she was like.'
He said that in real life, people were interested in Miss Shepherd's sanitary arrangements.
Adding: 'It was really a question of plastic bags. Stout ones.' with the writer revealing that she would use his loo on occasion, leaving him disinfecting it for hours afterwards.
The Lady In The Van is slated for release in November.
Loved: Dame Maggie Smith is perhaps best known for playing the sharp-tongued Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
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