The Real Gryffindor

Multi-awarded actress Maggie Smith was halfway through her cancer treatment when she made Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, starring as Professor Minerva McGonagall.

“I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg,”

she said.
The chemotherapy was, she said, “something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself”.

“You feel horribly sick. I was holding on to railings, thinking ‘I can’t do this’,” she said

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But she insisted she will “stagger through” the final Harry Potter film, The Deathly Hallows.

Let’s just pause and ponder on how awesome this woman is, a true Gryffindor. She truly is an inspiration, both on and off the camera

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