Charlotte Rampling
How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears
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English film actress who began her career in the 1960s.
On the island
How seeing herself in Rotten to the Core left Charlotte Rampling in tears
Eight records
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 ('Emperor')Favourite
Vladimir Ashkenazy with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
the first classical record that I listened to when I was young. My mother adored it and we used to listen to it all the time.
I grew up in the sixties. I was beginning my film career when The Beatles were starting ... And the record that I choose here, this Sgt. Pepper album, I think is the best. It's I guess it's the poetry of youth, as far as I can see.
The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux
I've always loved ballet. I studied ballet as a child and I could, I think, have happy times dancing around the desert island to the very beautiful music of Tchaikovsky.
who I listened to. I was from the age of fifteen, and found all my first boyfriends and my first parties had Elvis in the background. I think he's just fabulous.
The opening title music of Two Thousand One Space Odyssey. This film I think had an enormous impact on the young people and older people alike. A powerful, powerful film, and the music is as powerful as the visual.
Julie Covington and the London Cast of Godspell
which originated in England and became an enormous success and I adored it. It seemed that it had a fresh new look at religion. It made Jesus Christ appear as one of us, a young man, a young good man, who was trying to make other people feel the way he did. And I think the music is extraordinary.
Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from The Magic Flute)
this is special to me, not only because it's a very lovely piece of music. But um in the Night Porter, which we mentioned before, we did a small version of this opera.
This is somebody who has very recently come into the music business ... And I feel he has a very strong talent. He has not only a beautiful voice, but the arrangements behind his music evoke a feeling of classical and pop, and I guess this is what I like most about pop music, if the two can be incorporated.
In conversation
Presenter asks
4:42Was it very unsettling going to a number of schools being shunted around Europe like that?
It was unsettling, really, because I couldn't keep friends very long because I would make friends and then have to leave them. They would remain in the same place.
Presenter asks
5:05Did you have any ideas then on what you wanted to be?
I had vague ideas I was attracted towards acting through amateur dramatics because I felt when I was on the stage that I was truly relating to people. I was perhaps rather introverted as a child. And ... this, to me, was a marvellous form of communication to people. It was like a distant communication, but I know I felt what I could do to people. I could make them laugh and happy and cry and enjoy me.
Presenter asks
6:12It's said that you left the cinema in tears when they showed you that film [Rotten to the Core].
Yes, I did. I've never done it again, but I did then. It was, I guess, just the shock, the embarrassment of revealing myself to such an extent. Because uh as I said before, I didn't like to reveal myself, but it was I guess the greatest challenge to me that I just did ... the best I could, and it seemed to work.
The keepsakes
The book
Frank Herbert
I think the book would be Dune by Frank Herbert. It's basically a science fiction book, but it takes man's mind and projects it in for a very, very far into the into the future. And I think on a desert island that would give me enormous ideas.
The luxury
A painting by Degas (ballet picture)
A luxury I think would be a painting, one of the very beautiful ballet pictures by Degas.
Presenter asks
10:41Did that year [of sabbatical following your sister's death] produce a lasting and permanent change in your personality?
Yes, because I think there are a lot of ways out of that particular situation through a psychiatrist or through um tranquilizing drugs, sleeping pills, but I was determined or drink, I was determined to do it myself. without any assistance except my My own self.
Presenter asks
18:45Are you a practical person, Charlotte?
I could be. ... I mean looking after the house, looking after my children, but say we're talking about a desert island. Yes, I could cook for myself. I think I'm a survivor, so I don't think I'd have any problem.
“I had vague ideas I was attracted towards acting through amateur dramatics because I felt when I was on the stage that I was truly relating to people. I was perhaps rather introverted as a child.”
“I was determined to do it myself. without any assistance except my My own self.”
“I think I'm a survivor, so I don't think I'd have any problem.”