On 26 Feb 2001, Calle Dybedahl wrote:
"Tavia" == Tavia Chalcraft tavia@btinternet.com writes:
This could of course be bad acting. I detected no sexual (or any other) tension between Anna and Avon, but put that down to poor acting or at least uninspired casting.
If you attended Iain's "Acting lessons from B7 and B5" workshop, you got to see an alternatively acted version of Anna's death scene, with me as Anna and Una as Avon.
Which was, quite honestly, vastly better than the original. That wasn't entirely unexpected -- it is one of the worst-performed scenes in the series -- but even so I was quite stunned by the fact that two apparently miscast actors, with (as far as I know) no formal acting training at all, with no warning, not knowing the lines, trying to perform with scripts in their hands, managed to produce a tender, touching and subtle performance that nearly brought a tear to my cynical old eye. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to watch that episode again.
Iain