As we sit pondering the dark days of 2020 and wonder how we arrived at such a difficult Christmas, memories of better days keep us going, as we have to believe they will return again soon. I believe that this has been a wake up call for us, especially in the industrialised world …..that there…
For those of us who live, work and breathe the media, which has expanded now with advent of social media, we have a lot of responsibility. Speaking as an actor, our first job is to tell the story as the author wrote it, within the bounds of the character. It is also the first responsibility…
We are living in truly historic times, for better or worse. Sadly we tend to remember the worst – it resonates more loudly. Covid and the US Election currently are leading the news in making history. They say that Nostradamus predicted a plague, which will come every few hundred years, to decimate the human race. …
Zoom is the new phenomenon and now the best way to hold meetings, meet friends and have events. I have met many new people through Zoom. I belong to an organisation, based in LA, called Greenlight Women…it’s a group of women over 40, successfully working in the film industry, in front of and behind…
Living inside your head? Isn’t that what we’re all doing to some extent now, while we live in enforced isolation? It is driving some people to slight state of madness, those who are not used to it – days and days of your own company? I think it’s why we see so much crazy, wild…
I am not going to write about the current “elephant in the room”! Everyone is talking about it so – enough! I have been fortunate to work with so many good actors and actresses, more men than women, mainly because women have less parts than men and often I was the only one or one…
Friends its time to talk about something else. Let’s talk about music. Music is one of the most precious parts of our human existence…it heals the soul, livens the spirit and gives us a way to communicate without speaking the same language. Last week I had the pleasure of doing a phone interview with Jon…
Been thinking again about the leading men I have worked with over the years. Recently I finished filming THE HAUNTING OF MARGAM CASTLE and had the pleasure of working again with two actors from my past: Derren Nesbitt and Vernon Dotcheff. I am not sure that Derren and I actually worked on the same…
I think we all hoped that 2020 would usher in a more peaceful year, but so far it’s not to be and the human story continues with its usual ups and downs. Sadly today we learned of the death of Tony Garnett, former actor, with whom I worked on BBC television in THE BIRTH OF…
Well here we are friends at the end of a decade, ready to launch into a new one and miracle of miracle – we are still here on our fragile, much abused planet. Hopefully good sense will prevail and we will look after it better in this new era. It’s been an interesting one…
