SCARLETT

"I'd never have been able to live with myself if I'd turned it down."

"You know I know we're going to get compared. I know we're going to take lashes and licks. The way I look at is we are bringing to life these characters that have already been brought to life once. They are wonderful actors in a great movie. Were not competing, we're doing our best to bring Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara back to life."

"It's images from Gone with the Wind... memories from the movie GWTW, but they're most powerful in people's mind. And if you're going to do a sequel you have to have responsibility to that film."

"I was talking to a woman this morning and I said (affecting a Southern accent), 'You know, it's real nice being down here in Charleston. Love it…prettiest town in the USA. And she said, "Well I'm delighted that you're here. It's so nice to hear a British accent."

Asked how it felt to take a part that another actor has already given such an imprint to: "Yeah, it's kind of scary. It is a bit scary. On the one hand it is one of the great roles of the cinema. I mean, if you think of great men's roles I guess you've got to think of Bond as being one of them, which I've done, and you've got to think of Rhett Butler. But how do you turn it down? I was going to say I hope it's not entirely Clark Gable's, but I'd be very happy if Clark Gable was in there because I think people would like that."

"What is this 'me' about Scarlett that every woman in the world identifies with? I mean, she's kind of a bitch, really. Selfish, greedy, self-serving, manipulative…she's also real determined and compassionate." (Timothy Dalton)

Life

January '95

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IT'S BETTER THAN HAVING ANY DAMNED YANKEES PLAYING THE PARTS.

Englishman Timothy Dalton, who played RhettButler

to English-woman Joanne Whalley-Kilmer's

Scarlett O'Hara in the "Scarlett" miniseries.

Vanity Fair

November '94, page 100

GEORGE WAYNE: And what about the chemistry between you and Rhett Butler (Timothy Dalton)?

JOANNE WHALLEY-KILMER: Oh, he's fabulous. He was great, a real gentleman, which isn't to say he was a kind of milksop.

"TIMOTHY DALTON. FROM JAMES BOND TO RHETT BUTLER" (Tele 7 Jours, May 1995)

"GETTING TO KNOW THE NEW RHETT BUTLER" (Woman's World, 1994)

AN INTERVIEW WITH TIMOTHY DALTON FROM "TV GUIDE" (1994)