“Dame Maggie, 73, insisted on completing her sixth appearance as Harry Potter schoolmistress Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince while having radiation therapy.” (via.)
She gained about a hundred awesome points just for continuing to film the movie, and still perform as well as she did.
“She once said in the past: “It’s true I don’t tolerate fools, but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.”
Maggie Smith always inspires me so much; she’s a wonderful actress and the way she continued filming throughout her therapy gives me so much hope.
We appear to be giving a rather conspicuous middle finger to the ‘no points to your own house’ rule, and this amazing woman truly deserves it, so two points to you!
