Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2006 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cause the way this week is an actor he came to fame in the 60s a decade that he seemed to pursue. The In films such as Far from the Mading Crowd, The Collector and Modesty Blaze, he established his reputation as a great star in the making.

But when his love affair with another 60s icon, the model Jean Shrimpton ended, he disappeared from the scene,

reappearing only much later in a series of character roles, most notably perhaps as a

transsexual in Prisc, Queen of the Desert.

I've never worked a lot and I've never worked as much as I'd like to have worked, he says,

but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

He is Terence Stamp. Why is it a blessing terence i mean you've missed out

haven't you could have done so much yeah no i guess i could have but but my life has

been full you know i've been

been everywhere I've met wonderful people I've learned to have a life like outside of my

movie career but did you choose to do that or did it rather happen to you? I think it's hard to know

when the 60s ended I think because I had been so identified with it I kind of ended as well and I thought if I could be good looking and if I could be successful and if I could be famous everything would be solved. And when it all kind of came to an end, I thought to myself, there's been lots of fun, but there hasn't been any kind of real deep internal satisfaction.

So being called the most beautiful man in the world or one of them anyway was not, I mean that was in a pressure in the world or one of them anyway was not I mean that was in a pressure in the

no no I love I love that of course you did but you know when the thing is that

when I woke up in the morning I was me you know it wasn't a real it wasn't a reality as it

were so I bought around the world ticket which was kind of epic and I just thought to myself if I like anywhere I'll stay there and you just opted out I mean

You know I was distraught I mean I'd never imagined this would happen. I always saw after six months or, you know, some great part would come up and nothing did.

They'd all come knocking. So do you look, I mean I have to ask you that question, do you look back now and you look at Michael Kane whom you shared a flat with and other guys you hung out with and do you think, you know, I could have been there. I could have done that. That could have been me. I'm asking if you have regrets.

No, no, no, I don't have those kind of regrets. My real regrets, my only regrets, are movies that I passed on because I was fearful.

They're the things I really regret.

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