Who plays the aged waitress in Victoria Wood's classic 'Two Soups' sketch?
Victoria Wood as Seen on TV Talking" for "Wood and Walters". The show also featured many, often acclaimed, one-off sketches, like "Waitress" (popularly known as "Two Soups"), where Julie Walters plays an elderly deaf waitress who takes an incredibly long time to take an order for two bowls of soup. In 2004, British television network Channel 4 (in a poll conducted on its website) awarded it "27th Best Comedy Sketch Of All Time". Walters said "she [Wood] knows I like playing old women. Why? Because I am one! I love the shape of them." "Classic Coronation Street" was a recreation of 1960s "Coronation Street". It starred
Victoria Wood as Seen on TV act. This didn't stop Wood making Walters almost as prominent in this newer series. She played many two handers with Wood as well as other roles such as Margery the daytime television host, a mad shoe shop lady, the elderly waitress in the "Two Soups" sketch, and a transsexual hairdresser. Most famously, she was the char-lady Mrs Overall in "Acorn Antiques". She later revealed that alongside her starring role in "Educating Rita", it's the part she's still recognised the most by the public for. Duncan Preston (who appeared in Wood's 1981 teleplay "Happy Since I Met You") was cast in