There can be few things more daunting for an actor than to have to play another very well known actor, especially when the star they are portraying is one of the silver screen’s best loved legends.
So even someone as well known and loved in her own right as Sigrid Thornton must have approached the role of Judy Garland with some trepidation.
Thornton says playing Garland was all in the eyes for her as she played the Wizard of Oz actress in the upcoming telemovie, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Thornton said: “Seeing myself in the brown contacts was really the clincher. My eyes are quite light so making them dark really changed my face.”
The Daily Telegraph quotes Thornton, who’s a lifelong fan of Garland, saying it was both a “thrilling and daunting” task to play the tragic star.