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  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781910924532
  • Imprint: Watkins
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99

The Ocean Fell into the Drop

A Memoir




The celebrated British actor and pop-culture icon (film credits include Superman I and II, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) discusses his twin passions: acting and mysticism

During my first visit to the cinema the empathy I felt from Gary Cooper was life-changing, and a secret dream was born in the darkened auditorium. 

Later, my forays to the East revealed an original take on humanity which fell into two categories: those who remembered and those who didn’t. The former by teaching the latter could transmit this memory, and communicate this spark of creation directly into the being of the other.

The Ocean Fell into the Drop is a different kind of showbusiness memoir, one that traces Terence Stamp’s twin obsessions, acting and mysticism, and the relationship the two have to each other for him, through the trajectory of his life. On the way he discusses his directors, Fellini, Loach, Pasolini; actors, Olivier, Brando and Redgrave; and spiritual masters, Krishnamurti and Hazarat Inayat Khan, as well as his family, life in the East End, Sufism and style.

  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781910924532
  • Imprint: Watkins
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99

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