Tuesday Weld

She was director Roman Polanski's first choice for the leading role in La semilla del diablo (1968) because he thought her pure American looks would contrast well with the film's dark undertones. The studio preferred Mia Farrow, however, who had become a star on the enormously popular nighttime soap opera Peyton Place (1964). A few years later Polanski wanted her to star in his film version of Macbeth (1971). She lost the part when she refused to do a nude sleepwalking scene. The role was eventually played by Francesca Annis.

I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused Bonnie y Clyde (1967) because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called [Bob, Carol, Ted y Alice (1969)]. It reeked of success.