Phil Penfold writes: I got to know the glorious Pete Postlethwaite (obituary, 4 January) as his "seaside landlord" when he and the RSC visited Tyneside in the early 1980s. Pete told me one night that as Banquo to Bob Peck's Macbeth, he had been "biding my time, leaning on a spear, when old Peck is emoting like buggery, and he gets to the line 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow'. There's this split second silence, and a Geordie voice in the stalls says: 'Eeee, that'll be Friday!'"
Years later, when I had moved to Doncaster and was writing the press pack for the movie Brassed Off, Pete and his co-stars were staying at a local hotel. One night I turned up to find no Pete: it turned out that, on a rare afternoon off, he had gone to Doncaster races, and had won a lot of cash on the horses.
Years later, when I had moved to Doncaster and was writing the press pack for the movie Brassed Off, Pete and his co-stars were staying at a local hotel. One night I turned up to find no Pete: it turned out that, on a rare afternoon off, he had gone to Doncaster races, and had won a lot of cash on the horses.
- 1/25/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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