EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell Deadline that the Toronto International Film Festival’s opening night film on Sept. 7, The Boy and the Heron from Hayao Miyazaki, has sold out in record time.
08.08.2023 - 04:05 / ok.co.uk
Gavin & Stacey star Alison Steadman has revealed that she almost quit television after being "bullied horribly" by a director early in her career. The 76-year-old, who is reuniting with her Gavin & Stacey co-star Larry Lamb for a new travel show, opened up about the horrific experience, which happened as she started out in acting on the BBC drama Z-Cars. "There was a time very early on when I was doing an episode of Z Cars which I was probably totally miscast in the role looking back," she told OK! in an exclusive interview.
"The director was not a very nice woman. She bullied me horribly and I really thought, ‘If this is what television is like I don't want to do it, forget it!’" Alison added that fortunately, her next TV job was completely different. "Luckily, I didn't work with her again.The next person I worked with was extremely nice.
And the majority of people I've worked with over the years have been really nice directors but it's inevitable. "There's always one or two, and she was a particularly nasty woman.” Alison appeared in a 1973 episode of the police procedural drama, playing W.P.C Bayliss alongside star James Ellis, who starred as Inspector Lynch. The Olivier Award winner is best known for starring as Pam Shipman in Gavin & Stacey - and thankfully for fans, her experience on that show was very different to Z-Cars.
"The writing is brilliant. I mean, it's one of the best series I've ever done," she said. Alison is reuniting with her on-screen husband Larry Lamb, who played Mick on the sitcom, in Gold's Alison & Larry: Billericay to Barry - a road trip from Essex to Wales.
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell Deadline that the Toronto International Film Festival’s opening night film on Sept. 7, The Boy and the Heron from Hayao Miyazaki, has sold out in record time.
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