She caused outrage as a wide-eyed teen in her very first film. As the actor returns in a spooky Agatha Christie, she relives life as a 60s icon - and the taunts she endured in the streetOne day nearly 60 years ago, Rita Tushingham was walking through Soho with her friend, the late British actor Paul Danquah, when a passerby yelled: `Blacks and whites don´t mix!` Tushingham looks troubled by the memory. `It happened to Paul a lot,` she says. `I remember he shouted back, `Don´t worry! She´s only been on holiday and got a tan.´`That was Britain in 1961, before London swung, before sex between men was decriminalised, before a black man and a white woman walking in Soho might pass unremarked. There´s a photo in the National Portrait Gallery of the pair that very year, her leaning in care-free, him eyeing the street as if on alert for the next racist. Continue reading...
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