Emotional final pictures show Glenda Jackson and Sir Michael Caine filming their last movie together and chatting to locals on the Sussex seafront – just a short time before the actress died.
The Oscar-winning British actors had not filmed together for 47 years.
Sir Michael paid tribute to the actress and former Labour MP after her death at the age of 87 yesterday, calling her ‘one of the greatest movie actresses’.
Ms Jackson died at her home in Blackheath, south-east London, after a ‘brief illness’, her agent said.
The stars will feature alongside each other in the upcoming movie The Great Escaper, which tells a story – inspired by true events – of a Second World War veteran who escaped his care home in Hove, East Sussex, to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in France.
Sir Michael, 90, will star as Bernard Jordan, who made headlines around the world in 2014, while Ms Jackson will star as his wife Irene.
Ms Jackson, who gave up her acting career in 1992 to serve in Parliament for more than 20 years, was working with Sir Michael on the film which proved to be her last just weeks before her death.
The pair were pictured engaging with locals as they strolled along the Sussex seafront while making the film.
Speaking for the first time since her passing was announced, Sir Michael, 90, said: ‘Glenda was one of our greatest movie actresses. It was a privilege to work with her on The Great Escaper recently, our second film together.
‘It was as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I shall miss her.’
After her death was announced, tributes poured in from both the worlds of acting and politics, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer saying her passing ‘leaves a space in our cultural and political life that can never be filled’.
After stepping down as an MP in 2015, she made a triumphant return to TV screens in the 2019 production Elizabeth Is Missing, in which she portrayed an elderly woman suffering from the early stages of dementia.
