The Comic Strip Presents (TV Series)

The Strike (1988)

Dawn French: Verity, Old Lady, Celebrity

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• [first lines] 

  Verity : We're all very excited about your script, aren't we David?

  Film Executive : Oh, we all love the script. All of us.

  Verity : It's so wonderful. It's... It's quite fabulous.

  Film Executive : Absolutely

  Verity : It's brilliant, quite brilliant.

  Bernard : Yes, well what initially attracted me to the idea is...

  Verity : [to waiter]  Bucks Fizz, please.

  Bernard : ...is there's this unashamedly powerful, socialist epic. And as a director, the way Paul's captured the sheer size of the struggle...

  Film Executive : [to waiter]  Anything but a Coca Cola, thank you.

  Bernard : ...millions of people unemployed. Families ripped apart, whole communities on tranquilisers.

  [to waiter] 

  Bernard : Thank you. It's... It's... It's magnificent.

  Verity : No, It's smashing stuff. I mean when I got to the end I felt as if I had been through the miners' strike myself.

  Film Executive : Oh absolutely! I mean if we're going to revitalize the British film industry from an American perspective then 'Miners Strike' is undoubtedly the sort of film we should be doing this year.

  Verity : Oh, I agree. It has terrific potential.

  Film Executive : [pause]  What about Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill?

  Goldie : Can Pacino box?