Rachael Stirling reveals that she was ‘scared’ of her famous mother Diana Rigg and says she ‘approved’ her follow -up in her TV footsteps

Rachael Stirling admitted that she was ‘Scared’ of her famous mother Dame Diana Rigg.

The English actress, 47, said Her mother Dame Diana Rigg tried to prevent her in her footsteps from moving in Showbusiness and was ‘rejecting’ her work.

“I was really afraid of her,” she confessed while she spoke on the Rosebud -Podcast.

Rachael – he played Doctor WHOTipping the Velvet and the Bletchley Circle – Add: “She was disapproving and a bit rejecting from my work … It wasn’t great.”

Rachael implied that there might have been an element of jealousy and ‘competition’ from the former bond -girl Dame Diana, who died in 2020 at the age of 82.

“I looked exactly like her, which was annoying when she got older,” she went on.

English actress Rachael Stirling, 47, says her famous deceased mother Diana Rigg, who died in 2020 at the age of 82, tried to prevent them from entering her footsteps in ShowBusiness

Rachael also admitted that she was ‘s ***-scared’ from her mother who played in Game of Thrones and James Bond (shown together in 2012)

‘She was quite white about holding on to the reins and not let me do it [acting].

“She has arranged her profession. And I was absolutely not allowed to go to the drama school, although she did. ‘

Rachael is married to husband Guy Garvey, who is also an actor.

The actress and the elbow frontman, 50, made the knot in the town hall of Manchester in June 2016 after a year of dating, and welcomed son, Jack, six.

Rachael also spoke earlier about the relationship that man had with her deceased mother.

She described the band that her mother and husband shared, especially before her death, which man called ‘such a special time’.

Rachael said: ‘Guy was very close to my mother. When we brought her home to die in 2020, he was so generous and hospitable, and I think my mother fell in love with him a bit.

‘When the first Lockdown kicked up and he was able to go back to his studio, she loved the idea that he was going on his way to create.

“He would enter her bedroom to say goodbye every morning and she would say:” I keep you in the cloak of inspiration. May the gods of poetry visit you. ‘

Rachael Stirling and husband Guy Garvey opened about their romance, revealing that their love story began because of two A-list actors (shown together in 2021)

“She would do this every day until she became weaker and weaker, and at the end she would just move her hands slowly and say:” Cloakie Cloakie. ‘So that’s what the home studio of Guy is called – Cloakie Cloakie. ‘

Guy added: ‘Rachael’s mother was great. It was a privilege to share the last month of her life. We tied about words and poetry, a love of the same songwriters.

‘Rachael ran around the balance between medicines for her while I got all the beautiful chat. It was such a special time. ‘