![]() ![]() I was very fortunate to have parents who were pretty experienced in the business and knew the pitfalls.” “There are a lot of distractions and pressures. “It’s a very different business to when I started,” she says. She made her debut aged 12 in the 1959 film Tiger Bay alongside her father Sir John Mills, and in 1961 she won an Oscar for her role in Pollyanna. ![]() Hayley previously filmed the ITV drama series The Flame Trees of Thika in Kenya. Wild At Heart has certainly become a family affair for the Mills, as their cousin Susie Blake appeared in the last series. “That’s why I’m always keen to get my family out there, and if possible to get them in the show!” she laughs. ![]() Hayley, 62, explains why she wanted her Los Angeles-based sister to join the cast: “Filming on location in South Africa means everyone is going through the same homesickness and the problems of being alone. It means they are acting together for the first time on camera. Juliet, 67, has been playing Georgina throughout this series, and now Hayley reprises her role as her spirited sister Caroline. The film, finally, is funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.THERE’S trouble at Mills this week as Wild At Heart reaches the end of the series with Juliet and Hayley Mills appearing as sisters on and off screen. Even more than a virtuoso shoot-out, two scenes - Stanton tortured by a gang of grotesques, a truly nasty car crash - exemplify Lynch's ability to disturb through carefully contrived atmosphere while the performances lend a consistency of tone lacking in the narrative (but ever-present in Fred Elmes' fine camerawork). But it's churlish to focus on flaws when so much is exhilaratingly unsettling. This déjà vu weakens the film sometimes the weirdness seems so forced that Lynch appears merely to be giving fans what they expect. As petty criminal Sailor (Cage) and his lover Lula (Dern) go on the run through a murderous Deep South, fleeing but meeting sleazy oddballs hired by Lula's mom (Ladd) to end their relationship, Lynch evokes a surreal, sinister world a mite too reminiscent of his earlier work: bloody murder, violent sexual passion, kooky kitsch, freaky characters immersed in private fantasies, digressive metaphors, symbols and cultish references, and bizarre humour to lighten the nightmare. ![]()
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