00:00Well, here we are then. We made it.
00:03We're out of the house.
00:05We're coming out. We want glamour, glitter, excitement.
00:09But we're here now.
00:11She was the trailblazer.
00:14She was fierce.
00:15Victoria Wood.
00:16I've never quite seen anybody like her.
00:18Hello.
00:19She was just Vicky.
00:21Vic's performing character wasn't Vic.
00:25It's one step removed.
00:27She was a very shy person.
00:29But forget them.
00:31She needed to become comfortable as herself.
00:35I was patronized either for being fat,
00:37either for being a woman.
00:39Very wild in Welcome on a Saturday night.
00:41Or for being Northern.
00:42Old men dipping their Garibaldys into another woman's haul.
00:45But inside, I had a very, very serious streak of ambition.
00:51Hello.
00:52Victoria liked to be generous to the underdogs.
00:56I understood what it was like to feel that you weren't important
00:59and that people didn't find you interesting.
01:02Even though she'd become very famous,
01:04she continued to be the ordinary person that she was right at the very beginning.
01:08Why do you think you were courageous enough to become a comedian?
01:12I like to live dangerously.
01:14I like to live dangerously.
01:15I like to live dangerously.
01:16The Albany.
01:18Yes.
01:20I do not know.
01:22Even if you remember which
Comments