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London
Times, 8 January 1998.
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Life
goes on for axed actors.
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Their
fans are still in mourning, but, for the cast of This Life, life
has never looked sweeter. Twelve months after BBC2 waved a tearful farewell
to its hippest-ever series, the stars who feared they might be heading for
the dole queue have emerged as the most sought-after actors in Britain.
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As
Miles, Anna, Milly, Egg, Warren, Ferdy and Rachel, they portrayed the dissolute,
drink-fuelled lives of twenty-something lawyers and their problematic relationships.
In real life, with 20 jobs between them, things are going rather more smoothly.
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The
show, which died after a promised third series failed to materialise, has
achieved the legendary status of a creature cut down in its prime, while
its offspring have become the new television in-crowd.
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In
terms of hit rates, Natasha Little, who played the infuriating Rachel, has
been the most successful. She is about to play Becky Sharpe in Vanity Fair,
the BBC's showpiece costume drama this autumn, and has been offered another
lead role in The Clandestine Marriage , a film with Timothy Spall. Almost
as soon as the final credits rolled on This Life last year, she was signed
up for the role of Fanny in last month's showing of Far From the Madding
Crowd on ITV and for parts in Cadfael and Fay Weldon's Big Women.
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