The actress is known for playing sexy characters like Diana Dors and confident career woman Sandra Pullman in New Tricks, but donned rollers and body padding to play Tommy Cooper's wife Gwen in a new ITV drama.
"I'm very vain, so when I watched it back, I thought, 'Oh Christ! It's my gran!'," Amanda confessed. "But then I thought, 'Get over yourself. Is it right for this?' And it is, so I got over it."
And the image-conscious star said it was actually a welcome change.
"It's so liberating," said the 56-year-old. "And because she was quite a big lady, normally at lunchtime I'd be going, 'I can't have the potatoes and I can't have this'. This time I was going, 'Oooh yeah, give it all to me'."
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This focuses on the dilemma the comedian (played by Shameless actor David Threlfall) faced after falling in love with his assistant Mary Kay (Helen McCrory).
Despite adoring his strong and feisty wife, who he nicknamed 'Dove', the fez-wearing funnyman embarked on a 17-year affair with Mary, which continued until his untimely death from a heart attack in 1984.
Watching the final cut was an emotional experience for Amanda.
She explained: "I found myself laughing a lot, because David is just wonderful as Tommy. I kept laughing, probably more than I did growing up, because I understood the jokes more, and then I was crying. It's terribly moving, so it's a fabulous mixture of both."
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