How old is jenny agutter in walkabout

Here they drink and splash and sleep, and in the morning the pool is dry. At about this time they realize that a solemn young aborigine David Gulpilil is regarding them. They need saving. He saves them. He possesses secrets of survival, which the film reveals in scenes of stark, unforced beauty. We see the youth spearing wild creatures, and finding water in the dry pool with the use of a hollow reed. He treats the child's sunburn with a natural salve. Some of the outback scenes--including one where the youth spears a kangaroo--are intercut with quick flashes of a butcher shop.

Man's nature remains unchanged across many platforms. There is an unmistakable sexual undercurrent: Both teenagers are in the first years of heightened sexual awareness. The girl still wears a school uniform that the camera regards with subtle suggestiveness. An ambiguous earlier shot suggests that the father has an unwholesome awareness of his daughter's body.

The restored footage includes a sequence showing the girl swimming naked in a pool, and scenes of the aborigine indicate he is displaying his manliness for her to appreciate.

These developments are surrounded by scenes of implacable, indifferent--but beautiful--nature. Roeg was a cinematographer before he became a director he co-directed the Mick Jagger film " Performance " in before this first solo outing. His camera here shows the creatures of the outback: lizards, scorpions, snakes, kangaroos, birds. They are not photographed sentimentally.

They make a living by eating other things. Aboriginal culture has a less linear sense of time than that of a clock-bound society, and the time line of the movie suggests that. Does everything happen exactly in the sequence it is shown? I had a strange dream about Miranda Hart recently. We were on the set of Call The Midwife and for some reason she was stark naked! I was trying to ask people the way back to the set but they were speaking in Italian to me.

I was getting worried as I knew Miranda was waiting for me with nothing on. What is your most unappealing habit? I live in a state of clutter,' said Jenny. What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? Which living person do you dislike the most? I was one of public figures who signed a letter opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the referendum in I am not a fan of Nicola Sturgeon and what she stands for, but she is rather smart.

Who would you like to say sorry to and why? It would be to my mother for not talking to her enough. I wish that I had spent more time with her when she was ill. I would fuss around her a lot and made sure she had the care she needed. But actually all she wanted was to sit down and have a conversation. That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

Although Girl is 14 years old in the movie, Jenny Agutter was 16 years old when the film was in production. Jenny Agutter said in an interview years later that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved year old girl. The day of filming she was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles.

Later, when she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do. It depicted the innocence of her character. Jenny Agutter 's initial interest in participating in the film was sparked by a desire to meet The Beatles , who were considered as potential financiers for it. First cinema film of David Gulpilil. This was the first solo directing credit for cinematographer Nicolas Roeg.

Luc Roeg is the son of director Nicolas Roeg. There has been some confusion over Jenny Agutter's age during the time she filmed this movie. Some people assume she was 18 or 19 based on her birth year of and the release date of the film.

But Agutter herself has said she was 16 when she started filming, including the full nude swimming scene. The movie was made in but wasn't released until three years later. I got sunburn. Then this boar got run over by one of the trucks. Everyone was quite distressed but David Gulpilil [who played the Indigenous Australian who finds Jenny and me lost in the outback] said we could use animal fat to calm the sunburn, as Indigenous people might.

So he treated my back and we used it in the film. I had to jump in the water naked too, which absolutely terrified me. I kept putting my hands in front of my crotch to protect my dignity. It really became our world, our community, our life.

Coming home from Australia, everything felt completely alien. Interviews by Alex Godfrey. Photograph: BFI. Jenny Agutter, actor I was still at ballet boarding school when I went to see Nic Roeg about the role.