Jane Horrocks' OCD hindered her moviemaking experience.
Jane Horrocks revealed OCD hindered her moviemaking experience
The 60-year-old actress - who is best known for playing Edina Monsoon's useless PA Bubble in the classic BBC sitcom ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ - has battled with the disorder for decades, which has meant she struggles to accept imperfections. but has now admitted she wished she wasn’t “so precious about things”.
She told the Metro newspaper's SixtySeconds Column: “When I was young and doing a film, I’d be obsessed with which take I liked best, I suppose that is all part of my OCD condition.
“I’d have to go to the director and say, ‘I liked one, there and six please, can you make a note of that?’, and it was such a waste of time because of course he or she wasn’t going to pay attention.
“And after a day’s filming, I used to write a diary, with reams about the job I was doing.
“Now I write hardly anything about my work in my diary. When I do a show now, I just put, ‘Show went well, it was alright’.
“I wrote more about my life and going out and having fun.”
The ‘Chicken Run’ star was also quizzed about whether she felt she was being offered different roles compared to when she was younger, to which Jane emphasised that wasn’t the case.
She explained: “I’m still often very quirky, off-the-wall characters and I’m happy as long as there’s a certain level of complexity to them, that you can invest something interesting in them.
“When I was studying at Rada [drama school], I was always given then old people parts, so when I left, I didn’t really know how to play a young person, because I’d been playing 78-year-olds!
“So, I think I’ve always played those character roles - I’ve never been the pretty young thing or the love interest - and in hindsight I’m really glad for that, because I think it has given me a longer and more varied career.”