Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 41 Interview with Glenda Linscott Top Dog Rita Connors

correctly so they can photograph it, yes, yes, I have to say it's just as bad as Ray's. The character was, he was a brilliant character, the glasses and the cigarettes, yeah, ah, there's nothing more fun than playing a bad guy, yeah, the bad guy is the best, the best, the funniest, talk to Maggie , I'm sure she'll tell you yes, she did. The next question is from Jan, our producer, she said that I came to prison late because I was born in 1986, but Rita is my favorite character in the series. You were so great in every episode, every scene you were in just knocked it out of the park.

Each time I was completely heartbroken when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and now I have a hard time re-watching those episodes. Rita developed a connection with Tom Lucas through his love of motorcycles. I really like those scenes between them. A damn gift like John Mcternan. one of the most beautiful souls to ever grace the planet um, but I think that was what I was

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about earlier about the privilege of working with a cycle of grief like playing that journey and what those scenes with him allowed me to explore, that I did it and thought it was an amazing experience. piece of writing to create a character like that to bring a character like that to the reader's final journey and you know, on the last bike ride and you know say goodbye to the shake of Lois's character and so on, um, but you know Johnny John Mctennon is just one. like Raymar, amazing actors, really amazing actors would appear towards the end of the show so it was easy to work with him, you just had to look into those eyes and you know no acting required, he's great in gp too right? beautiful amazing act you should also see him in musical theater wow he was, he can't sing so he can do everything.

There must be something wrong with that man. Surely something is not working right. Steve Bellamy says: Hello, Glenda. i have paul edmunds i have paul eddington's autobiography and he mentions working with you what are your memories paul ah wow well this is um actually it's because of the

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that i got paul for julia blake because julia auditioned for paul um and he He chose her for the Terence Radical Double Bill, which were two one-act plays, one called Harlequin Help and the other very famous play called the Browning Version, so he chose Julia as his wife in the Browning Version and can you believe it before the dvd was vhs so i had to send my audition to the uk via videotape wow and um and it was julia who recommended me and i so i sent it and it was to play paul eddington's daughter in halo grenade which It's just a romp, it's based on a couple of uh famous English actors who called Luntz actually lived in Terence, you know, friends of Terrence Rat vs.

Brook and they toured the regions when they were 50 in the production of Romeo and Juliet, like that. So there you have this old-fashioned Romeo, this 50-year-old man. playing Romeo and they are touring the regions and in their life comes, you know, a kind of lively young woman from the north of the country who claims to be his daughter from a relationship from 20 years before, so he chose me as that without having met me never. just look at me in the video and then when we arrived all the cars gathered in Melbourne, we were rehearsing in Melbourne and Julie was there.

I was terribly excited to see Mr. Paulington and I walked around with my six feet and he went crazy and he looked for me now and said, "Oh, how wonderful. He just said you could see him taking advantage of all the comic possibilities like they were running on it and He worked me like we worked every day of those four months on our comedic jokes and he would say you know, he said um, I just think we try this, you do this and you do it, and I'll go back there and then I bet we'll laugh, so we tried it that night and um, I didn't quite understand the The life you wanted is okay, so tomorrow night we'll try this part here and everyone will do it and we'll do it with that big bear and we laugh and then he came out of the stage and he grabbed me and he had me spin around, he, come on, we did it, we did it, we did it, so he told me he laughs and he laughs, oh, team act, you know, they, they, they. , you can't understand the punchline if it's not set up correctly and um and he was just a dream, you know, he was a in the latter part of his life that he had, he had the cancer that finally took him away, but we had, you know. , four months in Australia, some julia blake and paul eddington and a wonderful cast and crew it was fantastic that was right after the amazing

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um some comments uh leslie hall on I think it's in the UK said fantastic and gary thomas can't wait to seeing this one among many is like that too thank you thank you from robert ivory uh, what was it like working with pat everson? well, lovely, one of the great plays of Australian theater and television, like she was wonderful, yeah I didn't have much to do with her, although I can, but, she knew she was a well-known name in Australia and that she was vaudevillian , No?

I know those days of vaudeville in Australia were long gone, so it really was like that. You know that no. She didn't know that you knew many of the people who came out of prison. I didn't have the opportunity to meet them. A lot because I was never off the track and people came and went quite quickly, so I didn't have much to do with Pat, but she was lovely. What can I say? There are a couple more parts to this. Mark Brittner too. says something this is the one i've been waiting for and maria mg on facebook says i can't wait for this amazing lady ah enough there's more there's more peter anthony rogers also says i can't wait for this

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came as a much needed breath of fresh air and He was one of my favorite characters.

Sean Batchelor also said that he is also in the UK and runs one of the big Wentworth Facebook groups. I'm so excited for this

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, it's going to be absolutely amazing, yes I hope it is. guys but rob shaw says i love glenn and glendora's tootsie the main reason i kept watching that show is also a fantastic dog in the prisoner oh yeah the bow tootsie was the engine called the forensic pathologist Like um, yeah, why does Tootsie like it, what a weird name, but um, yeah. she was funny, she was good, yeah, right, uh, Tootsie was funny because Tootsie was a, you know, a murder mystery show based on a female detective, um, and then there was the police and then I was out there being the pathologist, but Jeff Morrell and I worked, he was the forensic scientist and I was the forensic pathologist, so he would do the crime scenes and I would do the morgue scenes and he and I always had this seesaw, you know?

Who you know who has the power and wanted the spirit of it, so we got together and decided we would play that and we had a lot of fun doing it together, but Jeff and I had done three plays together, so we knew each other. very, very good as theater actors and um and it's interesting that the kind of land between the two of us was what the audience enjoyed, so it was fun to make that trip so different from Rita, although my goodness, very different, we have time to some. more or do you need to start wrapping i have to go soon i have to go soon but a couple more ok ok hi

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any memories of working with ellsworth ballentine and you did you think we would be so popular in the uk great fan? from the uk richard newsome hi richard well i mean elsbeth and i were in each other's lives every day and she still eats except now i live 3000 kilometers away in perth but nowhere else took me to ellsworth and lois took me in like family and they still are, I consider them my closest friends and, you know, I mean early, what a legend, absolutely, the commitment and the longevity as the only actor to stay the course through and, What else did you admire about Elsa and me?

I'm sure she wouldn't mind me saying this, it's just that her commitment to her children, you know her devotion to them through um, you know, being an actor, but being able to provide for them was very inspiring to me, um, and I loves. her because of that, yeah, so she's very special to me, um also because because she took care of me in the UK, you know, we did that for four months, you know, she was, she was, uh, we really bonded then too, You know, we had, we had all eight. 15 months together and then a year and a half later we were in the UK.

I remember, I remember she played, I played the character that she started out as Angela, you know, Angela Muggleton, what's that character called Chris Angie? I think Christopher is right. So Chrissy's casting started in the auditorium, so she was in it and Helsworth had to come, like you know, Saint Meg and call me off stage and I wear six foot stilettos and she wears flats, so I'm about two feet tall. louder and the crowd just collapsed and she said, I feel like holding up a sign that says it's all downhill from here, guys, that's as fun as it gets. she always has that self deprecating humor, the belly, i agree, bonnie davis shaco says, uh woohoo i've been hoping and praying for this Glenda.

I fell in love with Rita instantly. Your portrayal of her was exciting and very brilliant. Where did you draw inspiration from to develop her character? And as the wife of a husband with debilitating brain cancer, I personally wanted to thank you for the accuracy with which you showed what it is like to undertake this journey. Very wow, you know, I can only say: how can I be the person who has people who can tell me that 40 years later? I've done an amazing job, this is amazing, isn't it? Yes, it's absolutely amazing. First of all, my love and blessings to your husband and me, and I hope that life is good every day for you, even in the moments, my inspiration, well, Well, I had, I had, I had a great character to play and I guess the inspiration came from a combination of my own sensibilities about life and my family and imagination, like you know where the research comes from.

It's so important and then it comes from the people that you work with, you know, it comes from how that alchemy that comes together when you work as a team, so it's not just one thing, it's a combination of things if that if that helps that answers that any way that's even remotely meaningful does it um we'll just fit one more in because obviously we're bringing jan back shortly um martin duggan on facebook who's from the UK said I met

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shortly after I had the kidney transplant that saved me life in a company. I remember you in Birmingham in England.

Glenda was with me. I remember you in Birmingham, yes, yes, and Megan Kirkpatrick, and she was so lovely asking me questions about my transplant and she was so grateful for the time she spent with me. It's been 12 years since the transplant, my kidney still makes me proud. I want to send all my best wishes to Glenda and hope she does well. Oh, it's wonderful to hear God bless you. It's fantastic news. Wow, isn't the science amazing? that you can do that and bring people back to life, it's amazing, so thank you for those beautiful thoughts. Wow, you want to put it, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, did you have another one, one more and then, and then, I really think I need to leave partly because I can't stand all the praise too, but I do need to leave.

Dave Johnson from Hastings says greetings from the UK. Hi Glenn, I'm a big fan of your work on Prisoner. Is it true that the actor who played Rita? Your slasher boyfriend liked you in real life, okay, that's what I wasn't going to tell you. Oh, well, you know, yeah, yeah, he got a little confused because he thought if I put a love scene on the CB radio with him and me. He was playing his girlfriend and that meant I was his girlfriend in real life and he got really drunk and I had to freak out and escort him off the premises.

Yes, I was very, very grateful to be inside the Channel 10 studios with Ken and the others. Take good care of yourself, thank you very much, I'm going to finish and um, okay, thank you, nice to meet you Matt, yes, you too, thank you for your sincere and genuine thanks to the fans, you know, you've been in my life for 40 years . now, but I really care about you, you mean a lot to me and also to my children, if I may say so, because they too have had to live with you, but it means a lot that you still like the work and that we are still fans and thanks to Ken and Matt for chatting today and God bless you all, take care of yourselves, take care of each other.

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