Diana Rigg: ‘Becoming a sex symbol overnight shocked me’

The actor, 80, on her dark side, inventing a cocktail called Diana’s Dynamite, and getting killed off in Game of Thrones

My father was a railway engineer and got a good job in India, so although I was born in Yorkshire I spent the first eight years of my life out there. But Yorkshire really formed my character. I get straight to the point and say what I feel. I can’t help it, it’s genetic. That’s my excuse anyway.

I was sent back home to go to boarding school. I hated it – and that left me feeling disenfranchised most of my life, as if I didn’t belong anywhere. I might as well have said I wanted to go on the game when I told the headmistress I wanted to be an actress.

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