- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020