Review Josette Simon

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Interview
Josette Simon: 'Powerful women are reduced to being dishonourable'

As she returns to the RSC to play Cleopatra, Josette Simon explains why there is so much more to the queen than a strumpet


https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/21/josette-simon-cleopatra-rsc-shakespeare

Simon has spent much of this century on screen. “As well as ‘black actor’, I don’t like it when people say you’re a ‘theatre actor’ or a ‘TV actor’. They all have a different discipline. I did get concerned about being known as a ‘theatre actor’, so I decided to take a break and do some TV.” It was Blake’s 7, in which she played Dayna, that first made her name in the early 1980s and she returned to primetime in series such as Lewis, Merlin and Death in Paradise. “Then I missed the old theatre muscles – and out of the blue came this offer.”

 

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so I decided to take a break and do some TV.” It was Blake’s 7, in which she played Dayna, that first made her name in the early 1980s

Oh well. At least it got a mention in the article, even if she seemingly declined to discuss the show.