I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.
I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.
It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
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