Not saying the lines as written was pretty much fully supported by Monty if you were good at keeping the intention of the scenes and the story going forward while making things work in character or making moments have that spontaneous feeling she liked. But Monty wasn’t live to tape, and that kind of thing could have been very disorienting for some actors, and self indulgent. It sometimes looked self indulgent when Tony Geary did it, and that was when they were making a more modern product with editing and post production.
I wish there was more of her Diana available to really get a feel for her performance and the original version of the character.
On Maurice’s YouTube show, Genie Francis told a story about her and Leslie Charleson doing one of those scenes and Leslie went up on her lines and then went blank, and it was kind of traumatic for GF who basically had the fear of god put into her about making a mistake. Doing it on essentially live television must have been very stressful. Something the New York actors probably had more comfort with to be honest.
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