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On Georgina Worsley...
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Lesley-Anne Down (Georgina): I was terribly poor when I was doing
Upstairs, Downstairs. My boyfriend and I lived on an estate in a
block of flats. The rent was about �6 a week and you had to scrub
your share of the communal concrete steps. When I did Dallas,
I worked nine days and they paid me a quarter of a million dollars.
Needless to say, I�d much rather be doing Upstairs, Downstairs and
still scrubbing steps!
John Hawkesworth (producer): In her first few plays, Lesley-Anne Down
was only adequate. I was in despair; Martin [Case] and I had talked
with every young actress in England. She was only nineteen with no
experience except as a sex goddess in B films. It was in the war,
when she became a nurse, that talent suddenly began to show - like
a rose opening - and by the time of that scene with James in France,
she moved me to tears. From then on she never looked back. A star.
A rare thing, star quality.
Simon Williams (James), on James� relationship with Georgina:
The directors never agreed on our relationship; half of them hated
it because we were stepcousins, and so they completely ignored the
story line; the other half loved it and had us flirting even when
it wasn�t in the story line. Lesley-Anne and I resolved it by being as
formal as possible in the flirty episodes - and slipping a few
innuendos into those that ignored it.
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