Hayley Mills follows in Judi Dench’s footsteps to check out the stage version of “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”

Exclusive: Haley Mills, who still fondly remembers the Disney classics Poliana Y Parent Trap, checks The best exotic marigold hotel In the UK, and then on the way to London’s West End.

Strictly speaking, it is a play based on a book (by Deborah Mogachi this is stupid) Who made a successful film? The best exotic marigold hotel In 2011 and its 2015 sequel The second best exotic marigold. Hotel. Both cartoons, starring Judy Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nye, did very well at the box office.

The scripts for the films, directed by John Madden, were written by All Parker. On stage, however, Mogach adapted his volume of seven British retirees who leave their native England to witness the twilight of their years in a luxury hotel in Bangalore, India.

Show manufacturer Simon Friend (The Father) told Deadline: “You know the characters, but I can’t stress that this isn’t a movie game. However, we decided to use the same title as the film, because it is very recognizable. “

Mills will play the new widow Evelyn Greenslow, who will play Dench on screen.

This is the second role Mills has played associated with Dem Jude since the 2004 film’s stage adaptation. ladies in lavender, That included grandmothers Dench and Smith.

“I’m happy to follow in Judy’s footsteps,” Mills told Deadline.

His father, John Mills (Ryan Daughter) co-starred with Dench in JB Priestley’s 1974 theatrical production good companions. “They became great friends. “I love it. My dad absolutely loved it,” Mills said.

Mills, who received an Oscar for her performance Poliana In the days when there were statues of youth performances, he shares a residence in St. The best exotic marigold hotel With an ensemble that includes Paula Wilcox (hard) as Muriel Donnelly (Dame Maggie played him in the movies) and Paul Nicholas (Rum Tum Tugger in the original London production). cats) Like Douglas Ainsley, (in Nye’s films).

Mills said the show is a life-affirming play about people who seek hope. “They come to the Marigold Hotel hoping to find a better life. “But I don’t know how many of them think it’s possible, but they all find something fundamental when they’re there,” she said.

Mogach noted that “we misunderstand the elders and forget that they were once children and adults. This youthful enthusiasm does not always go away “.

Mills agreed. “What we cannot believe in young people is that we do not change spiritually with age. We feel the way we feel, only we have pain. “We look in the mirror and go, my God!” he said.

But when he reached a certain age he made a startling discovery. “It’s gratifying that the elderly don’t seem so old anymore,” she said.

Mills began her career at age 12 in 1958. She was concerned that it would be much more difficult for a woman to grow old in show business. She says there are two options: “You can fight it with plastic surgery” or age comfortably without having to work.

“There’s kind of a ring of fire that you jump into at some point where you finally get it. I look like that, that’s who I am, “she said.” Nobody will survive old age unless they die. Then let’s get him! “

However, Mills said he had the bags removed under his eyes a few years ago. “I’ve also had Botox, but I’m afraid of it because of what it does to the facial muscles. If you can’t cope with the movement, how should you act? It scares me. I don’t (Botox) now.

Mills said he’s often surprised people remember him. “My God, it was all a long time ago. How do you know me, apart from everything else?

He answered his own question. “To be a little polite, I feel and it is very nice that many people feel that I am part of their childhood; The films I made especially for Disney, they saw them in their youth. Too many people say, God, I grew up with you! They show their children the same movies. “

During the close of the pandemic, new fans discovered their Disney movies on Disney +. However, it doesn’t take Disney’s wasted years. “They paid me to make movies and that’s it. “Nothing else,” she explained.

He bites his tongue when he realizes it Poliana Goods. “Dolls, books, games and all kinds of things in my face,” she said with a sigh.

They didn’t pay him a cent.

But it is philosophical. “The films I’ve done with Disney started my career and I’m still working on them,” she said.

She says she admires the plans of her producer and director friend Lucy Bailey The best exotic marigold hotel Tour and its season in London.

Your bags will be packed for the premiere at the Richmond Theater on August 30th. This is close to where he grew up with his father and Mary Haley Bell, his writer mother.