Cell Block The Great Escape 1990

He left prison for the first time. that was that was a and it was a pleasure, it's a pleasure to play with an actress of this caliber. I mean, you can't help but look even better than you normally do next to her. I'll delete it, but surely you. They paid me to say I have to pay the money back now, but those first few episodes are serious for a minute, those first few episodes in particular of the prisoner. I have always thought that the caliber of acting and actresses were extremely high, it was obvious that all of you were very, very good actors and actresses.

Can I just say that I think we'll all stay on the bandwagon too? That was one of the secrets, yes, yes, well I had served my apprenticeship for about 50 years before I left and I was an overnight success for 10 years Sheila, was it difficult to switch from theater to really say no? ? We were discussing that with my son, who is a theater director, this morning, in fact, because they watched a show with Michael. Kane talking about stage and screen technique. I say you can act or not act on anything. I tend to agree that talent really can be developed, honed and refined, but it has to be there to start with you.

I can't manufacture an actor, but don't miss the instant response from the audience. Oh yes, it's wonderful to have an audience. It's wonderful, but did the cruise ever help you? The crew was a wonderful family, an absolute family. They taught me everything I knew about how to work. a television studio didn't get it from the directors, that's for sure, yes, she's different, she always says what she thinks, isn't she? That's why we get along so well, everyone was afraid of us, what kind of characters do you have? Does Sheila have characteristics? How would you say what kind of characteristics you want to say well what kind of person problem?

Because I think you can give us a goal. Sheila is. I think now this is going to sound fantastic again. I'm sorry but it is true. I am probably the most generous person I have ever met in my life. It's also a naughty old trap that needs a kick in the butt from time to time and, uh, not very often. When I met you, she wanted, she longed for you to say. I'll stop because that's always been one of my favorite expressions because you say it like no one else can say it and you know, at one point the show aired at 7:30, which in Australia lasted briefly. warm up commercial for a new tv show they were making called Holiday Island oh yeah we nicknamed it Holiday Iceland because all these people in bikinis were in the winter behind the pool it was so funny we have AOL using neighbors now sorry and what was it?

I said we left at 7:30, yeah, and they actually decided they had to censor it, so they censored some of the bad words and I realized and I told this to the station manager, actually the station manager. program, Gordon, uh, uh, Gordon. I find your censorship very strange, you are calling out all the bastards and you are leaving all the bastards in. I mean, would you rather be a bastard than a bastard? I mean, you have a choice about one and not the other. next week all the bastards will be gone too, how does it feel to come to Britain and see how people absolutely adore you?

I must say it brings me very close to tears and I feel privileged, especially in Derby because my husband, who died in the war, and the father of my children were at the darashi yary. Oh, wonderful connection, what kind of letters did people write to you? Well, the best thing for me about Lizzy is that we have a huge Greek community in Melbourne. and these dear old Greek women who can't speak a word of English would meet me in the market and they would come and say Lizzy and they would hug me and cry and that would make me happy.

I mean, I thought they were identifying with your age. I know old age and loneliness and that was really worth it for me. I think it's also the indication of a

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performance that transcends that language difference. Yes, in fact, there is more truth about Sheila Florence right now, maybe what were some of the things she once misbehaved. on set not at all, I'm a strict disciplinarian very very disciplined oh she's a real professional she's fine Sheila what's up with um Val? Has she ever done anything wrong for nothing? No, she slept late once, tell us she used to sleep during scenes, don't you remember?

Oh yeah, I once saw a wonderful one in a rec room and she was spitting out miles of this garbage and she was actually fast asleep. She was also very famous for sleeping between scenes whenever she had a free minute to leave. She could sleep on a barbed wire fence, literally, she could regret it when you left her prisoner. It was a very sad moment for me, the last real scene and of course playing it with Sheila because the crew that was so really was wonderful to design the last scene because you know we filmed out of sequence, that my last scene of the week was the last scene I was in, so it was a bit tearful, yeah, I'm almost howling now.

I remember it because I had made wonderful friends and was moving on to something new, but hey, you know, I didn't lose the friend, so I didn't lose anything. Actually, you two mentioned the fact that you made a lot of friends when you became a prisoner and I have to say that this is something quite special because it is the first time that four original cast members of The Prisoner have been together on the British stage because I want to bring back Amanda muggleton and Carol Burns hello again thank you hello again I can't, I'll never believe this woman is Frankie Doyle Change from week to week What are you doing Carol?

I've been juggling. I've been juggling for the past few weeks. I've been juggling three jobs and I'm not a very good juggler and all four have fallen at my feet so I'm unemployed at the moment. Pity. Too bad, yes, I spend a lot of time in my garden now. I have a garden and grow organic vegetables, so I eat abundantly when I am unemployed. Know? I S. I didn't watch the first few episodes of Prisoner and I watched the first two episodes. You were brilliant as Frankie Doyle. We absolutely appreciate you. They were very afraid of it, Dor loved me, it was one of the first things I really liked, it was when it had nothing to do with the television aspect and it was when I was in isolation and I was calling Doring Dor. rang and there was a clear call coming through the void in ning and that's the kind of thing that I thought was cool about those early series that they actually used, they just used voice, didn't they use a lot of TV techniques instead?

I was just producing it and those first few episodes were incredibly dramatic and were actually very depressing talking about that scene in particular. I wonder if you remember, remember this, they shot you in this, in the

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, screaming Dorine, then they had to film a scene with Dorene. Colet Man and I and I think you because the three of us sold out at the beginning of the show, uh, and you were supposed to make up for the "doring" shout so we would react when I remembered I was making a cup of tea and you. You were sitting against the wall and you fell asleep and then the line came, we finished the conversation and the door was supposed to come in, you see, I had actually already done another scene, it was just to give us a clue and nothing happened, so they all looked at each other and left and the dryer said, "Cut, that was wonderful, a truly creative moment on television, wonderful, but we used to terrify the crew too in those early scenes before they met us, before to let them know what little kittens we were.

It's Riot's first scene, they had never seen all the women walking down a hallway directly towards them, they were shaking. Yes, one of the funniest things I remember is in I don't know if it's in the first or second scene. You were in isolation and I had to come and make you angry somehow or in some way often well, well, in the end I got angry with everyone, but I had to spit in his face. I think we had to do it. How many takes did you have to do? 15 times at the end I became hysterical and of course I had no more saliva left for which I was eternally grateful, but I from this mass sliding down your face oh we were able to do some lovely things, yes we were really wicked, it was

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What about Sheila? What kind of memories do Karen have of working with Sheila at pris? Sheila I met Sheila before we worked together. She was doing a play on Grant Street called Chidley, which was again. I was also struggling, but I was more. She's more successful with oranges than with jobs and, um, Sheila, I think, as I heard Val say before, she's one of Australia's most recognizable actresses, so when I met her, I kissed her feet. . Yeah, well, she just got back from Brisbane and never. I've seen or heard about this young actress and I saw her performance and I was absolutely blown away and I thought this hope for Australia still exists and then we worked together on this TV series and we had tremendous scenes to play together, one of the things that really made me loved it, you know, the

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we did when you had the heart attack and had to come back, the things they asked you to do here was Sheila shining over fences and running through forests and God knows what all and that was on a 12 Day hours sometimes and 110° in the shade absolutely so you know the heart attack acted very well of course and what about you Amanda my memories of you Sheila you make me cry with me watching you do scenes I can Remembering sitting in the Green Room, day after day, just watching what you did and how you did it brought so many tears to my eyes and the other thing I remember about her is her generosity because you would go on and do a scene and sometimes they would be particularly difficult scenes. .

The crying scenes are always difficult and they just turn on the so-called Action and wait for the tears to flow and sometimes the dialogue doesn't help you cry and I remember telling you once that I'm really worried about the next scene, you know? I have to go out and cry and how you do it and teach me and help me and I remember going out and doing it and when I came out she was there for me to hug her and she, you know, was full of praise. for what she had done and you were always like that, with everyone praising everyone you met, congratulating them for scolding them oh yes, you always told them, but that was also in a spirit of generosity.

Yes, Sheila, actually, when I say I learned sometimes. You need to hear someone put into words things that you sort of felt but haven't been able to put into words and that happened to me a lot with Sheila, which gave me a better understanding of what I was doing as a performer, um, she It talked about honesty in acting and truth, it meant a lot to me, I think I hope I put it into practice, but I wasn't fully aware of it. The best was when I named my baby after Lizzie. I named my baby Elizabeth after your character because she loved her so much and she ended up helping me and being very understanding of me, which a lot of people now know, so what York's driver named her baby.

What was your best moment? Do you think that in pres it was very difficult to choose? You see, most of the time Frankie was very inarticulate, she was actually a very unhappy character and all of her aggression came out of her because no one understood her except Karen Travis played by Peter Tano. and one of my favorite moments I think was the reading lesson that she gave me, oh yes, because it was a very tender scene and it was a scene where two characters really talk very close to her and I fell in love with her at that moment. that was your best scene enjoy what was your favorite moment in chryler I think it would have to be the birth of the baby because I think at that moment Chrissy changed and became a little more human um and also when the man who was Elizabeth's father entered the series.

It was great having him as a sparring partner and that scene that I really loved doing again was a bit like our Riot scene that we did smashing everything he had. a kitchen scene where I had to pick up all these dishes and throw them against the walls and throw clothes everywhere and I love doing things you enjoyed all that stuff I did, yes I did, it was very dramatic too Sheila, did you? What about you, you can remember a particular prisoner's St. that you really enjoyed or that was most memorable to you. Well, I can tell you one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed in any studio theater or anywhere else where there was an actress named Jude Jude healing Judy. healing and she just arrived at the prison and talking about how lovely Peter is also one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen and she was being nice to this person and she was pouring him a cup of tea.

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phone and she said sugar and Jude Curing said that I'm a little diabetic it wasn't in the voucher it wasn't Jude Curing who in one of the hallway scenes when he stood on top of the camera he took out a fly wrap and it flew out of his nose and he looked how imaginative she was angry she was crazy she was The Bitter End this one but really funny because I'd never met anyone like that before V what about you two most memorable moments that weren't actually to do? with acting and it was the first day that everyoneWe were together, that was the first day that we were all together, for me it was incredibly exciting.

He was excited about the actresses he was working with. I was excited. the fact that we were more women and the atmosphere that we were starting a new company and it was very... It was tingling all over. I thought it was wonderful and just hearing the script read and I thought, "Oh, this is going to be wonderful." Then my other moment, which wasn't really a performance either, was the first time we heard the theme song, and they brought in a cassette recorder, a little cassette recorder, and they said, oh, are you interested in listening to this, the theme song? main of the program?

Oh yeah, and then leave it. We sat on a couch in our green room, which is the area where the actors rest and we all sat and crouched and stood around and listened to this theme song and we're absolutely delighted with it, well, it made us cry. Okay, I think at this point it would be really nice if we were. I remembered the pris thee and how we invited someone on stage to sing it for us. I'm so glad you asked me to sing it for a minute. No again. I don't know the lyrics. Would you join us at the concert?

Singing about the prison of no love, not tonight, oh, but you will stand firm, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I want to thank Carol Burns, thank you Amanda muggleton Val Layman and she applauded. She used to give me roses. I wish I would do it again. but that was outside things were different there inside the roses grow they don't care about the stony ground but the roses here are also prisoners when the morning comes last night I dream that we were together sharing all the love we know because I had to face the nightmare of waking up alone indoors, they don't care about the floor, but here our PR when the morning comes.

I'm inside, give me R. I wish you could have been that again in building our world together oh yes with love clear and strong that outside where I was inside the sun shines and the lady falls but the morning comes that is the night a dream together sharing all the love we know we will return until I Happy the nightmare, waking up inside, the shine and the falls, but the sun may not when the morning comes.