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Scream of the Shalka | Interviews | Diana Quick
The look of the Shalka
Diana QuickHow do you think your character should look?

Well it’s an interesting question about how I should look, because it’s changed even today, the first draft of the script that I was sent had me as a, well my sort of native form is worm-like or green goo, which can morph into various manifestations. It’s principal one is as a sort of worm-like figure, even though I’m able to assume a plausible human shape

Today we’ve been talking and it now sounds as if, instead of being worm-like, I’m going to be crustacean-like, so I’ll be more like perhaps a lobster crossed with a snake. I find it very hard to imagine, and Wilson, the director, chatting to me just now, said, ‘Well of course you’re going to be a lobster crossed with a jaguar,' and I got very excited about that. I said, ‘Oh I’d love to be the jaguar bit,’ but I think it’s going to be more scaley than that.

 
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