Rebecca Pidgeon: A Return to London
by: Rebecca Pidgeon
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I was just in London making a movie for an Indian/British co production company. The movie and company are entitled Provoked. It’s about a young Indian woman (played by Aishwarya Rai) who, after years of abuse from her husband, is “provoked” into setting him on fire.
Kind of reverse suttee as a friend pointed out. I play her defense attorney. This means in the British legal system, that I am a barrister in the court, and get to wear the funny wig and robe, and say “my lord” a la John Cleese, though he of course says “m’lud.” I suggested this pronunciation to the general assembly of lovely Indian camera crew and Brit actors, but was voted down, unfortunately.
I lived in London fifteen or so years ago, was a poor (impoverished) student, and then a poor actor, signed a record deal with phonogram, and became a not quite so poor actor/singer in a rock band. I left quite suddenly (I had fallen in love with an exotic American) and moved far away from old blighty never to return for an extended trip, except for a brief stint making a movie called The Winslow Boy. So it was a nostalgic walk down memory lane being there to work again.
