Diana Rigg as Emma Peel was our generation’s Lara Croft. I was happy to read she died among loving family and friends.
+1 Vote — well said
Very sad.
And yes childhood crush as well.
Ditto.
Mrs. Peel was so hot in those tight jump suits.
Best of the Bond Girls. She was also terrific in a BBC version of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Check out a rarely broadcast movie called In This House of Brede, where Rigg plays a nun who’s resented by an older more senior nun. Very good.
One of the things about Diana Rigg was that a lot (most?) of the roles she played were of strong decisive women. Even as the Bond girl, she was a cut above Bond Girls in terms of power and decisiveness.
No one told Emma Peel what to do.
There’s an interesting story behind how her most-famous character came to be named Emma Peel. The producers of the show, when they were casting, kept saying, “We need to find an actress with lots of male appeal”. They kept saying it so often that they started abbreviating it “m appeal”. So that by the time Rigg was cast, the character’s name was…
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel was our generation’s Lara Croft. I was happy to read she died among loving family and friends.
+1 Vote — well said
Very sad.
And yes childhood crush as well.
Ditto.
Mrs. Peel was so hot in those tight jump suits.
Best of the Bond Girls. She was also terrific in a BBC version of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Check out a rarely broadcast movie called In This House of Brede, where Rigg plays a nun who’s resented by an older more senior nun. Very good.
One of the things about Diana Rigg was that a lot (most?) of the roles she played were of strong decisive women. Even as the Bond girl, she was a cut above Bond Girls in terms of power and decisiveness.
No one told Emma Peel what to do.
There’s an interesting story behind how her most-famous character came to be named Emma Peel. The producers of the show, when they were casting, kept saying, “We need to find an actress with lots of male appeal”. They kept saying it so often that they started abbreviating it “m appeal”. So that by the time Rigg was cast, the character’s name was…