Actor says six words in The Force Awakens were ‘strangest experience’ as she tells Radio Times about pressures of playing three Shakespeare roles in one dayDame Harriet Walter has revealed that she received more fanmail for a blink-and-you-miss-it Star Wars cameo than any other performance in more than 40 years as a stage and screen actor. Walter, an award-winning British stage actor who has featured in TV dramas including The Crown and Downton Abbey, played a doctor tending to Chewbacca in a brief scene from the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens. “My strangest experience was my six words in Star Wars,” Walter said, in an interview published in the Radio Times. The productions – Henry IV, the Tempest and Julius Caesar – were hugely successful, and a film recording of the latter, in which Walter plays Brutus, is released in cinemas this week. “I met her twice,” Walter told the Radio Times.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2017 22:52 UTC