This is the first film I ever saw and afterwards I wanted to be Moira Shearer. *I wanted to be a ballet dancer.
When I was offered this play I thought ‘No. Why would I want to do that?’ but my agent talked to me about it and suggested that perhaps this was my career coming full circle.
But then Bad Girls came along and I thought, ‘ooh, I’ve entered the character acting stage’ and what a character it was.
I was talking to this lovely person on the other end of the phone but he must have been very young because he didn’t seem to know anything I was talking about.
I went to stage school hoping to be a ballet dancer but I turned out to be an actress instead.*But as a little girl of nine it made a great impression on me.
I was a little show-off and she was determined I was going to make it as a dancer and get away from Oldham, where I was born and brought up.
I was quite well known in the ’60s and ’70s but then you get to that stage when you’re too old to play the maid and too young to play the housekeeper, and you become difficult to cast.