00:05I play Daphne Milne. I am the wife of A.A. Milne and the mother of Christopher Robin.
00:09She's a very complicated woman, especially when you look at her through modern eyes.
00:14I didn't want to shy away from any of her faults.
00:16You know, the one good thing about the war is there are lots of marvellous women around like you
00:20who are never going to get married because there are no men.
00:22So you can take on work like this.
00:24Daphne?
00:24Yes? But it's true.
00:26She could be quite cold-spirited. She had no time for tears, she had no time for sentimentality, all those
00:30sorts of things.
00:31She's never got anything just on the tip of her tongue. It's always just right out there.
00:35What Margot has done is not apologise for any of that. She's just said, no, this is who she is
00:39and this is how she deals with things.
00:40And she's found the joy in that.
00:42Well, we're going on holiday just to Italy for a month or so.
00:45They were the parents of their time, where it was quite natural to give birth and head off to Italy
00:49for six weeks,
00:50leaving the baby with a nanny.
00:51It's a different time and it makes it so interesting to watch this family dynamic.
00:56Don't you just look perfect?
00:59Daphne definitely wanted to have a girl.
01:01I think that made it difficult for her to connect with Christopher Robin.
01:04And yet, you know, you can see the joy in Daphne's face when she gives the boy the toy.
01:09It's clear she loved him very, very much in her own way.
01:12Do you have room for one very small piglet?
01:15Yes.
01:16I have some very quiet friends. There'll be no trouble.
01:18Do you have any objection to tigers?
01:21No.
01:22One of the reasons I wanted to do this project was because my mum used to do voices for my
01:29Winnie the Pooh and my teddies,
01:31which is what Daphne does to Christopher Robin in this film.
01:34Margot, when she was doing all the accents for the toys, I found it quite funny as well and it
01:39was really nice.
01:40You do know it was me talking, not the bear. I was just playing, you see.
01:44You see how instrumental she was to the creation of Winnie the Pooh.
01:47The whole way through you see that she's the driving force to creating this.
01:50The evening news was for Winnie on the front page.
01:53Without realising it, it was putting a huge strain on her family, but she had the best intentions.
01:59He's going to stay a little forever. Like my boy.
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