Linda Thorson

TV Series The Avengers

EC: Of all the Avengers series, those in which you were involved were the most surreal – how did you find being entombed in a vat of butter and other extreme measures of confinement and bizarre plot lines.

LT: Well, I found it very slippery, greasy and silly. I also had to swim in a vat of milk, which made my skin very smooth and be trapped in a huge egg timer with sand pouring over me for days. That was the worst. I still found sand in my ears weeks later. Being tied up wasn't my favourite thing either. I suffer from claustrophobia so they always had to untie me between takes.