Twiggy on her profession: ‘I did not plan to get into modelling’
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nglish mannequin, actress and singer Twiggy has revealed that she by no means deliberate to enter modelling.
Twiggy, 73, whose full identify is Dame Lesley Lawson, rose to prominence as a mannequin within the Nineteen Sixties, and has appeared on the entrance cowl of style magazines Vogue and Tatler.
Discussing her profession, together with an look in musical movie The Boy Friend, Twiggy informed Good Housekeeping: “I’ve spent my life doing things that I didn’t plan to do.
“I didn’t plan to model. I definitely didn’t plan to do a musical film with Ken Russell and I certainly didn’t plan to star on Broadway in a big musical. I must be mad!”
Russell wrote and directed The Boy Friend, which additionally starred ballet dancer Christopher Gable and EastEnders actress Barbara Windsor.
Twiggy has additionally been concerned in Close Up – The Twiggy Musical, written and directed by comic Ben Elton and slated to open in September.
She mentioned: “I only get involved with projects that really spark something in me, with people I love and want to work with.
“Ben Elton is an old friend and I love him to bits.
“He’s a huge talent – so clever and such a sweet man.
“The musical came about when we were having dinner about six years ago and he said, half-jokingly: ‘I should do your story! It’s an amazing story set in an amazing period – I should write it.’”
The musical traces the mannequin’s rise to stardom in a present stuffed with music from the Nineteen Sixties and 70s.
Twiggy additionally talked about her marriage to English actor Leigh Lawson and mentioned: “(Leigh and I) have been together for 38 years, which is frightening! I suppose luck has a lot to do with it.
“You never know when you meet somebody how it’s all going to turn out or what life is going to throw at you.
“We’ve both been through things that didn’t work out for various reasons and when you’ve had that experience, you’re a little gentler when you meet someone else.”
Lawson can be a director and author and he has credit in TV reveals together with Silent Witness, Travelling Man, Absolutely Fabulous and The Red Tent.
The September 2023 problem of Good Housekeeping is now on sale.