Steddon,
as an oasis of comic relief in the show: "I
think you've got to have a bit of comedy somewhere
haven't you? It's a pretty dark tale, so I think
they have me here for a bit of a laugh."
Steddon has a set of
rules which he advises new inmates to follow:
stay off the gear, keep your head down, keep
yourself occupied and always share your last
Rolo.
"Always share your
last Rolo is a bit of eastern philisophy. It's
kind of like pouring the last of the wine into
someone else's glass - eastern mysticism."
Connor got into acting
at the age of 31: "I thought 'that's a good
job - you don't do very much, you get paid okay,
six months off a year...'."
What started his career
was a meeting with a casting director who was
casting a Shakespeare play: "Somebody had
written to her and said 'you should meet this
guy' for a very small part in a community production
and she called me. I went to see her and she
said "What was the last Shakespeare you
did?" and I said "I haven't done any." She
said "What was the last regular play you
did?" I said, "I haven't done any." She
said "If you don't mind me asking, what
are you doing here?" I said "Well you
f***ing phoned me!" and we got on famously.
So that was what started it for me."
After that, he worked
on various different television shows, most famously
four series of the ITV show 'A&E'. Like most
actors, a large percentage of his work was on
'the usual suspects' like 'The Bill' and Casualty: "God
bless The Bill and programmes like it. I mean,
look at my face - it's hardly the lead romantic
role, is it?"
Well you never know Connor, you just never know...
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