It’s been an exciting and productive year so far and I am enjoying the ride. After writing a full length screenplay. ANDY about AI in our everyday life, we started filming in March and have almost two thirds ” in the can” More about that later. I love the work the writing, the acting the creative process. Acting is and will always be my first love and I will continue to do it, whenever and wherever I can, but the writing helps satisfy the creative urges and something we can do at any time. With acting, we have to wait until someone wants us. And I enjoy the blogging as it’s a nice way to connect to people and share a bit about the Industry I love.
The interesting thing is that we seem to be coming full circle. Once the word was NEVER put anything in writing. Now we put everything in writing…. emails, texts, reports etc, etc and the whole world can watch and see what we are up to. Big Brother has arrived, almost without us noticing. I appeared in a BBC production of George Orwell’s “1984”, in 1966. I played Julia, the girl who falls in love with and ultimately betrays Winston, who betrays her too. Big Brother is too much for both of them and inevitably they fall in with the demands of this controlling society, which breaks their will and destroys their individual freedom. Remind you of anything? Politics, Big Corporations, Big Banks spring to mind. Think old George knew a thing or two about which way society was going and how we would react. I was thrilled and honoured to be a part of it and it is work, of which I am proud. I was lucky to be part of that era in the Sixties in which some of the most prolific and interesting productions were on television.
Along with that thought provoking work, was the lovely lighter entertainment, in which I appeared: THE SAINT, DANGER MAN (AKA SECRET AGENT), THE AVENGERS, RANDALL AND HOPKIRK etc, etc (in the UK) and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, MAGNUM, AIRWOLF (in the US)….etc, etc Thanks to that wonderful invention the Internet , which has created a revival of these shows, I seem to have more fans than ever! It makes me very happy that a new and younger generation are enjoying this stuff and the lovely people who were in them and made them. I know I loved doing it all of it and hope for more, acting is my joy and pleasure and I am delighted when I hear from people, who love what I have done too…..thank you!!
The Prisoner
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