“The biggest social revolution in my life, when I grew up in England, was the change in the role of women in society,” he said. ‘We did not have civil rights and Vietnam in England, but I think the specific social revolution is the biggest thing, and I missed it by not having enough women. And because I did not have enough women, I did not have enough choice between options that built careers and had families and all that stuff. ‘
He went on to say: “If we look at everything from ‘Agatha’ to ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’, from ‘Nell’ and ‘Continental Divide’, it all has to do with the role of women in society and what women should do. to play a role in society, or the choices women have to make to stay in society or have a voice in society, in both straightforward and eccentric ways. It always interests me. And that, I think, stems from the feeling that I missed a bit. ‘
Michael David Apted was born on 10 February 1941 in Aylesbury, in the middle of England, and grew up near London. His father, Ronald, worked for an insurance company, and his mother, Frances, was a ‘kind of colored socialist’ who instilled in him a liberal outlook, as he told The Progressive in 2013.
He attended the prestigious City of London School from the age of 10, took the metro in the city and then studied history and law at the University of Cambridge. There was his fellow student John Cleese, later of the Monty Python group, with his friends. He got an apprenticeship program in Granada and soon after found that he was doing ‘Seven Up!’
When the film aired in May 1964, the reaction shocked him.
“The first one,” he told The Times in 2019, “was extremely successful. This was the truth of the class system from the mouths of babies, and the whole country was shocked – people just had a shock at the celluloids in English society. ‘