Interview With Margaret Henshaw

I also was able to get an interview with our best friend character.
Margaret said she enjoyed the audition. Just as much as we enjoyed auditioning her I imagine.
Margaret had a lot of acting experience under her belt. She describes her job as on and off, she loves doing it as it a lot of fun and she's met so many interesting people in her career. In her 20 years she'd been in many different things including Christmas Lights, Clubbed, Eyes Down, Life on Mars and Shameless. She told me about meeting Rob Green and how he was the loveliest person she's ever met. She also has enjoyed working in theatre, and mentioned one of the productions she performed at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool.
She told us about her first acting job which was a walk on.
The auditions where held quite close to home. She said everyone was there and they queued up for hours. "I got picked. And after that I was asked if I'd like to be put on the books to play more walk ons." After that she got to play all sorts of parted. She talked about one time getting to meet Peter O'Toole. She said during the filming she had a good chat with him, only some guy came up and told her she wasn't allowed to speak to him. "So what am I supposed to do if he talks to me? Ignore him? I was always taught that was rude. So he just walked off and me and Peter O'Toole carried on talking."
Margaret was originally from Great Ancoats (where our story is set). This was brilliant and she had plenty of stories to tell about living on George Leigh St. A long while back around those streets was known as 'Little Italy' where they would make the best ice-cream ever.
She said when she was a little girl she would sneak to the back doors of the factory and ask for a cup of ice-cream. "Me Mam used to say 'you been begging again?'"

So from her interview I gathered some facts of her past experience and some lovely stories of past times. Thank you Margaret.

Interview conducted By Aimee Sutton