I think after all to sort of come back, for me it was a kind of clearing to be able to go through the whole thing and come back and go, 'OK, it's over. I felt terribly like I'd disappointed, like I'd slightly let the team down. In a way, it buries a few demons for me, too. Ward: It is, isn't it? It's strange because I, obviously, have very mixed feelings about it. It's almost like being back there in a way.
There are a lot of things I don't remember anymore, but I remember so much about our work together in that. That's the first thing it's brought back.Ĭhamberlain: That whole experience was so intense. What are the things that this reunion has brought back to life for you?īrown: I think just what a lovely bloke Richard is. Otherwise, we'd be knocking on his door all the time.īrown: I think the nature of this business is that when you do a job, for a moment it's like a family and then sometimes it can be 30 years, it can definitely be 15 years, and someone who you've met who's just had a baby, the next time you meet them they're with a 19-year-old son or daughter.
Ward: Richard lives in Hawaii and we live in Australia. Rachel was coming in as I was leaving and we had 10 minutes – which was great. We'd been apart for 25 years, and then we were both in this miniseries in Thailand, and I thought, 'Oh, man, I get to see Rachel again and we get to act together!' But we didn't actually get to have a scene together, so we ended up by chance meeting in the Thailand airport. You actually haven't spent much time in each other's company since then, right?Ĭhamberlain: No. As you get older and you know you look nothing like what you looked like then and people still come up and go, 'Hey, loved that show, "The Thorn Birds,"' you think, 'Well, there's been 60 other things between that now. Mothers come up to me and say, 'I named my daughter Megan.'īrown: It's interesting, that 'The Thorn Birds' longevity – it doesn't matter where you are. That just went on and on.Ĭhamberlain: People everywhere come to me. Richard Chamberlain: Oh, yes, me, too! Oh, my God – we'd be so rich!īryan Brown: Rachel used to spend a lot of time in Italy because her mother lived there, and that's where it became incredibly noticeable over the years: people going, 'Meggie!' to her wherever she went. Rachel Ward: When I began to see, 'Someone is making a lot of money here.' I began to wish I hadn't had a buyout. When did you become aware of how enduring a phenomenon 'The Thorn Birds' had become? 4 – the trio of actors reunited last summer for the first time since they shot “The Thorn Birds,” gathering poolside at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to reminisce about the now-landmark experience they shared.
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When the PBS series "Pioneers of Television" explored the phenomenon of the network miniseries – airing Feb. But it was during the project she met and fell in love with Brown, and the couple remain married 30 years later.
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It was also pivotal in the lives of its stars: On the plus side, it secured Chamberlain’s status as the reigning king of the television miniseries, alongside 1980’s “Shogun,” and Brown launched a successful career in Hollywood with hit films including “Gorillas In the Mist” and “Cocktail.” For Ward, it came with both pluses and minuses: Critical reviews of her performance led her to feel insecure as an actress (even though she was Golden Globe-nominated) and she began to move behind the camera on Australian-based projects. Set in the outback in the early 20th century, it chronicled the tortured romance between an ambitious Catholic priest (Chamberlain), his spirited ward (Ward) and the ranch hand (Brown) with whom she seeks solace.Ī sensation in its initial broadcast, “The Thorn Birds” remains the second-highest rated miniseries of all time (after “Roots”) and continues to amass new generations of fans in each rebroadcast and new home video incarnation. In 1983 Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown headlined the ABC miniseries adaptation of Australian author Coleen McCollough’s bestselling potboiler. When the stars of the epic and enduringly popular miniseries “ The Thorn Birds” got together for the first time in decades, the reunion was anything but spiky.
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