Daily Mail: Toyah – My Life Through A Lens
My life through a lens: Singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61, reveals the stories behind her favourite snaps
Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photographs. This week it’s singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61
1960: I love this picture of me at home in Birmingham. I’m naturally bossy and independent, and even then, aged about two, I had attitude. I never identified with being female and would physically fight my mother, Barbara, if she tried to put dresses on me. I wanted to play war and used to climb mountains and jump off cliffs. I was always hurting myself by doing idiotic things, which upset Mum a lot
1978: When I auditioned for the part of Bessie Watty in the film The Corn Is Green, I hid my bright-pink punk hair under a wig. But when I was cast and returned without it, the director wasn’t best pleased. Katharine Hepburn was the film’s main star. She would run her fingers through my hair and say, ‘I wish I could have done this at your age.’
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