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him in London in 1987. We gave a party in Hollywood and Martin came." She has also occasionally seen Zienia Merton: "She was a great friend of friends of mine. It was quite a coincidence, that once I went to have dinner with my friends and there was Zienia. She knew them and they knew me: that was the last time I saw her." Another regular in the series was Barry Morse--who Catherine only worked with once ont he first season's Guardian of Piri, when she guest starred as the Ser- vant of the Guardian. "We got on very well. He's a nice man, and it was sad he wasn't in year two." A Miserable Experience From Catherine's favourite show to her worst experience; appearing in the film Lana, Queen of the Amazons, which was made on location in Brazil. "We had a Hungarian director, Geza von Cziffra. He was an old man, and he was as mean as he |
was old. To begin with he was quite nice to me, because I was Hungarian, but he thought I was totally wrong for the part. He hated tall women and I'm tall--he imagined me to be really tiny. I had to run around half naked all the time. I was very modest, having been brought up in a con- vent school, and I was terribly young. I was only 19 when I did that. I had to wear flowers and orchids and jewellery and stuff, and I used to position everything that nothing peeped out, but I positioned it sometimes with glue, and he was very annoyed that nothing ever peeped out, you can imagine. So he used to tear the flowers off me, and when they're glued on that is very painful. The whole of the filming of it was totally disastrous. I wanted to give up filming after that. I thought if these are the sort of people I'd meet, I didn't want to have anything to do with them." More recently Catherine appeared as a regular in the third series of ITV's was- time drama Wish Me Luck, which was |
filmed in England and France. "My strongest memory was when I bought a house in France. During the filming I had some time off and went around the coun- tryside, looking at the scenery, and it was very beautiful. And this is how I found the house we now have. It was a tremendous series to do; I love the director - he is my husband! Catherine is currently taking time out to try some writing. "I've written two epi- sodes of a comedy series. It has quite a lot of interest, and everybody says, 'not in this form. Why don't you write this as a film?' At the moment I don't want to revamp it. I'm working on something else at the moment, for radio this time, which could then become a film. "I have to try something. If I can't work as an actress, I'm not going to become a bank cashier. Nobody can trust me with money!" Interviewed by Jovan Michael Evermann of the Catherine Schell Club |
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