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Juliet Mills talks about her new film ‘English Estate’

Emmy award-winning actress Juliet Mills chatted about her new movie “English Estate.”

Acclaimed actress Juliet Mills
Acclaimed actress Juliet Mills. Photo Courtesy of ABC Television
Acclaimed actress Juliet Mills. Photo Courtesy of ABC Television

Emmy award-winning actress Juliet Mills chatted about her new movie “English Estate,” she recalled her time on “Passions,” and doing “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” during the pandemic.

‘English Estate’

This new film, starring Spencer Locke and Charlie Clapham, premieres tonight on Great American Family. The synopsis is: NYC real estate executive, Nora Cartwright (played by Spencer Locke), has just found out that her unknown great-uncle, passed away and left her a beautiful English property.

“That was fun,” she said. “I don’t have a very big part in it but it’s a fun part. I thought this film would work because of its two leads. They are so lovely looking together and it’s a sweet story. They were a nice group of people, and I loved Charlie and Spencer.”

Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills in 'English Estate'
Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills in ‘English Estate.’ Photo Courtesy of Great American Media

In need of money to buy her own office, Nora takes the first flight to England with a view to sell the mansion, not counting on her uncle’s handsome business partner to get in the way. “The mansion itself is absolutely beautiful, it really does look English,” Mills said. “The pub looked very authentic, and I am expert on pubs,” she said with a sweet laugh.

Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield play supporting roles in this movie. “We filmed it during COVID, and it was nerve-wracking because everyone was masked up,” she said. “If people like romance, it’s a lovely, romantic story, and it is set in beautiful England.”

The digital age

On being an actress in the digital age, Mills said, “It is all beyond me. I have to say, I am not very good with all that technology. I find it very frustrating and annoying a lot of the time. Then, it is wonderful in other ways. I am a member of the Academy so I can sit up in my bed and screen all of the movies of the year on my iPad.”

“Shooting in the digital age is very different, especially having two or four cameras, and the director sit in another room looking at the monitor. I was brought up with the camera right there and the director right there as well,” she said.

“Things are done more remotely these days,” she added.

On the title of the current chapter of her life, she said, “Looking Forward.”

‘Grey’s Anatomy’

She revealed that she has a “nice little arc” coming up on “Grey’s Anatomy.” “I am going to be working soon,” she foreshadowed. “I’ve done one episode, and I will be doing a few more. I loved the character in the original episode that I did, she’s great and fun.”

‘Passions’

Mills is known for her portrayal of Tabitha Lenox, a powerful witch, on “Passions.” “I love Tabitha, she was great,” she said with a sweet laugh. “That was a long run, we did nearly nine years of that.”

“It was a fun show but it was very hard work,” Mills admitted. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life. I’ve never had so many lines to learn, and I was always talking to myself or an inanimate object. I would have these long monologues looking at a magic bowl. It was a wonderful experience but once in a lifetime, I couldn’t possibly do it again.”

When asked how she handled being dialogue-heavy, she said, “I had no other life, really. I was very disciplined about it, that’s the way I work. I like to be really rock solid on dialogue otherwise you can’t really relax, play the part, and experiment in moments.”

“I had to put in a tremendous amount of time,” she said about learning pages of dialogue on “Passions.” “I would come home at night, make dinner because I would love to cook (that’s therapy for me), and then, I would go to my room and learn the next day’s dialogue. I would take four or five scripts over the weekend, and I would start breaking them down and learning them. Some shows were heavier than others, I had to learn all of those spells, and I gave it 100 percent all the time. I would study the script all the time because the next day would be a whole new show.”

Advice for hopefuls in acting

For young and aspiring actors, she encouraged them to have a “second string to their bow.” “If you love it and if you can take the rejection and don’t take it personally, then go for it,” she said.

“Have a second string to your bow, it’s a very difficult, insecure, unpredictable and overcrowded profession,” she added.

‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ with Stacy Keach

She noted that she enjoyed doing “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” as part of the Stacy Keach Zoom Theater. Maxwell Caulfield played Brick, Mills played Big Mama, and Stacy Keach played Big Daddy.

“That was really fun, I must say. It was brilliant of Stacy to come up with the Stacy Keach Zoom Theater. He was in Poland at the time, but he came up with a lot of plays, and I did four of them. The first one was the most difficult because it was new to all of us,” she said.

“We rehearsed for three weeks because it was a difficult play with a big cast. It was very good, Stacy and Maxwell were both wonderful in it and I loved playing Big Mama. It was like a family affair, and we all met on Zoom,” she elaborated.

Success

On her definition of the word success, Mills said, “To be able to make a living at what you love to do, that’s a success to me.”

To learn more about acclaimed actress Juliet Mills, check out her IMDb page.

Markos Papadatos
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Markos Papadatos is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for Music News. Papadatos is a Greek-American journalist and educator that has authored over 22,000 original articles over the past 18 years. He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, entertainment, lifestyle, magic, and sports. He is a 16-time "Best of Long Island" winner, where for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022), he was honored as the "Best Long Island Personality" in Arts & Entertainment, an honor that has gone to Billy Joel six times.

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