Maya meets a strange foe...
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Catherine Schell was smuggled out of Hungary as a baby when her family escaped their native country. Now she is an internationally successful actress with a string of movie and television credits to her name. TV Zone spoke to her about her most celebrated roles--and in particular her portrayal of Maya in Gerry Ander- son's Space: 1999. One of Catherine's best remembered ap- pearances was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. "That happened a very long time ago and I was only just married when I did it," she re- calls. "I had this tiny little part, and they always call me 'the Bond girl.' I find that weird. Diana Rigg was the star of the film, and the girls were only there as photogra- phy fodder, publicity fodder, and we spent hours and hours every day when we weren't actually filming, posing for maga- zines and newspapers. Eight hours a day where you weren't working because you were doing publicity photographs!" "We did the filming very, very high up a mountain. I rented a flat, but kept a room in the hotel, where I stayed if I was work- ing the following morning. One night I held a dinner party for the other girls in the film. We were all sitting round a big table and my husband was the only man there. We were all having a discussion and the |
An early glimpse of Maya in The Metamorph
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