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Val Lehman

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Val Lehman

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  • What people don't understand is, when you've had a life and worked as hard as I have in some shows, you miss it terribly. I'm afraid I tend to find myself sitting and waiting for my life to start again, a lot.
  • The green room and dressing room would flood when they did shower scenes and when they eventually gave us a green room upstairs, even that was extremely basic. Stars in Australia are treated like any other worker. Why should you expect more? But believe me, they were making a lot of money out of us.
  • our previous accomplishments are not considered much, they don't take them into consideration when they're casting. We don't act like stars because we don't get treated like stars. [Mind you] that can be a good thing..
  • It works in our favour overseas. We don't expect it because we're not used to it.
  • We were put in a tunnel, no money was spent on looking after us personally, or our comfort. We had to ask to make cups of tea and stuff. Mind you, working in the theatre in England if you were touring was similar.
  • It's amazing it's lasted this long, but I'm obviously not popular enough to get invited to the Logies this year, which I thought was a bit rude - I've got three of them! They're too long ago I think that's the problem.
  • My record was actually shooting 21 scenes in one day. When I tell English and American actresses that, they don't believe me... We were producing 96 hours a year, nobody does that anymore.
  • But there's not the work. I had far more work when I lived in England than I've had here. I came back from England and had no work for 10 years. I came back to nothing.
  • I'd rather be working than anything else, and I'm still capable.
  • I don't think anyone realises these days how many hours we worked. I was contracted to 12 hours a day, but I know for a fact I did more scenes than anyone else.

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