Good day all,
With the recent references to the Sand episode, and in particular to Tarrant and Servie getting all mushy, it has reminded me of something that I have been wondering about for a while.
Servalan, near the end, makes a reference to herself as the girl next door, to which Tarrant responds that he should move next door.
My question, to those who might know more about the history of the writing of this episode, is this - Was this a deliberate reference to the Hammer Film, The Reptile, where the slinky girl next door was played by Jacqueline Pearce herself? And if so, who inserted it?
What a pity Tarrant wasn't a fan of those ancient flat projection entertainments, then he might have known better than to take up her offer ... >;-)
Catch you later,
Walter Minne
Walter Minne wrote:
Was this a deliberate reference to the Hammer Film, The Reptile, where the slinky girl next door was played by Jacqueline Pearce herself? And if so, who inserted it?
I read an interview somewhere -- and I wish now I could remember where, maybe somebody else who's seen it will remember and enlighten me -- where someone (I *think* it was Jacqueline Pearce) said that it was something of an in-joke that was put in there because one of them had moved and they now lived quite near each other, and that that line came out of an actual exchange the two actors had when they realized this fact. Wish I could be more specific, though...
I wrote:
I read an interview somewhere -- and I wish now I could remember where,
Well, I just went and looked, and, amazingly, I actually found it! It's from an interview with JP that appeared in "Down & Unsafe #4." Here's what she had to say:
"When I went into rehersals one day - in the third series, I think - Steven Pacey said to me, 'Why are you looking so happy?' I said 'I'm happy because I've just moved. I'm now living on a houseboat in Chelsea.' He went chalk white and said, '*I* live on a houseboat in Chelsea!' and I said, 'Gosh, Stevie, I'm the girl next door!' He said, 'If *you* were the girl next door, I'd move!' and he did! [laughter] I told Tanith Lee about that conversation and she wrote it into the script so Steven and I had great fun playing that scene."
So there you have it: the official answer!
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Betty Ragan -
Walter Minne