{"id":253928,"date":"2025-10-31T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253928\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:15:13","slug":"letter-prunella-scales-obituary-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253928\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Prunella Scales obituary | Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Although she was famed for her often colourful roles on stage and TV, it was in black and white that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/oct\/28\/prunella-scales-obituary\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prunella Scales<\/a> made an early impression, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2008\/may\/04\/features\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Lean\u2019s<\/a> 1954\u00a0film of Hobson\u2019s Choice, as Vicky, one of Charles Laughton\u2019s unruly daughters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She recalled the experience in Kevin Brownlow\u2019s doorstop-sized biography of the great director: \u201cWhen I tested for the part, David sat behind the camera and interviewed me in character. He was always extremely kind during the shoot and one day he said, \u2018Make sure your next film is in colour. It\u2019ll suit you better than black and white.\u2019 I\u2019m afraid I didn\u2019t fulfil his hopes, having had a\u00a0rather sketchy career in films.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although she was famed for her often colourful roles on stage and TV, it was in black and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-253928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}