Julie walters autobiography meaning
"That's Another Story" the autobiography of Julie Walters follows her childhood at Bishopton Road, Smethwick (Bearwood), through to St. Pauls RC.
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Julie Walters: That’s Another Story: The Autobiography
LIKEABLE: On leaving school she took up nursing
Whether she’s bent double as Mrs Overall or tightening her lips as Mary Whitehouse, there is always something pinched and knotted about hercharacterisations, as if she is incapable of unwinding.
It comes as no surprise to learn that throughout her life Walters has suffered from disturbed sleep – sleepwalking and shouting and screaming like Lady Macbeth.
Even now, she says: “I could count on the fingers of one hand how many times I have slept through the night.”
Walters’ family originally came from County Mayo, which must have been a choice hellhole if moving to Smethwick was a step up.
INSPIRED: Walters' grandmother was akin to many characters she went on to play
Her father was a chain-smoking painter and decorator, “his hair full of plaster dust”.
Sickly and thin to the point of emaciation, he died young in 1971.
Walters’ mother packed chocolates for Cadbury’s and