David Jason: Interview

Sir David Jason tells Michael Deacon about his return to A Touch of Frost, why he needs a helicopter to get to work – and that Del Boy won’t be coming back Sir David Jason admits that, as the years go by, he finds himself growing a little more curmudgeonly. “I never thought I would,” says the 68-year-old actor. “My father used to say, ‘What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.’ And it was The Beatles.” But now Jason catches himself talking in the same way to his own daughter, Sophie, who’s seven. “She’ll be watching Hannah Montana [a children’s programme on the Disney Channel], and I hear myself saying, ‘What’s that rubbish you’re watching?’” Silver-haired sleuth: Sir David Jason in A Touch of Frost When it comes to grumpiness, though, the occasional tutting over the standard of children’s television... [read full story]                    

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