Sam West interview

Samuel West is a very good actor who's of my age. His parents were the great actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales. Both of them are now gone. Here's him talking about his parents and the craft of acting. I told him once that I was thankful for his parents because I grew up with them on the TV-set and it was always a high point for me in those awful days when I got bullied dreadfully at school. The showing of them together in the Barge Holidays was very much the cherry on the cake. The first season was actually shown during the year that my mom succumbed finally from Parkinson's disease. Sam talks also about missing his father, but being inspired by his work ethic and by the life of the classical touring actor. A good interview and segment to watch. Especially for us who are now of a certain age with parents who have or had dementia. I like to admit also that I kick myself not to have seen Sam as Richard II

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rinkydinkydoink · M

Prunella Scales! She of Fawlty Towers of course but I fell in love with her in the Charles Laughton/John Mills movie Hobson's Choice as Laughton's headstrong daughter Vicky.

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink OH YES!!!! Wasn't she good in that too :) Thank you for that memory!

val70 · 56-60

@val70 Really, thank, thank, thank you... that brings a smile on my face!

val70 · 56-60

@val70 [media=https://youtu.be/t4ncKFuDywU]

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

The whole movie was a gem... every cast member was in top form.

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

That fearsome stare! LOL

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink I know. Somehow I haven't seen a better version yet. I think that I have it in my David Lean collection box

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink Oh yes, loved her as Sybil. The beginning of my dark sexual desires :) just harmful fun at surviving stares!

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

Oh?

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink How about survival. Now I don't go a fight out of the way 😉

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

I googled what you wrote - "just harmful fun at surviving stares" - and asked if that was a line from a movie. I was directed to a movie which is no longer available.

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink Snatched (2017)? Well, I survived my best stare in 1999 already :)

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

You get stared at a lot? Stared at as in ogled?

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink Oh no, it was a rendez-vous that went wrong. Long story. I used to be very intimidated by my dad's look of disapproval. A lot. I didn't know that there were also long sexy stares like that too. Just not disapproval but more of interest and shyness combined

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

You are a very open woman. It's almost as if we are the only people here on SW and you are sharing an unexpected amount of intimate detail.

Of course I'm probably reading you wrong.

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink Nah, I've written it up in posts before. The love that got away :)

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

The thumbs up meant "Now I see!" - not I'm happy you experienced a lost love.

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink I know (understood). Had many more such misunderstandings. People who know me, tolerate even the dyslexia

rinkydinkydoink · M

@val70

I'm sure you know this but I sure as Hell didn't :D

You are in great company:

Notable individuals with dyslexia include Albert Einstein, who is renowned for his contributions to physics, and Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group. Other famous dyslexics are actors like Keira Knightley and Tom Cruise, as well as musicians like Cher and John Lennon.

val70 · 56-60

@rinkydinkydoink I knew actually. I got counselling too late in my school years. At the age of 14 I was told that even Noble Prize winners won't talk better in public than me