and maggie morphed into shepard. >> you can't see miss shepard. >> shepard. >> filming 12 hours day in the van in the rain in the cold. >> yes. >> what do you think miss shepard would think of maggie's performance? >> well she'd think it only right that she should be portrayed by england's leading actress really. she was a person of great importance. >> what are you doing? looking at my things. >> indeed miss shepard is i am peer just, but also sympathetic for the surprising back story we won't reveal here. reminder, that that person on that street corner is there day after day may have quite a story. you pass all the time people just on cardboard on the street. you know, she had a van. >> she at least had that. >> you see these people are just in doorways and it's just -- i mean, what do they do all day? >> american audiences first met maggie smith on broadway. when she was one of the new faces of 1956, and sang this comedic ditty. what was your impression of new york when you first got there? >> the thing that astonished me more than anything was the food. we hadn't long stopped rati