Barbara Steele — British Actress born on December 29, 1937,

Barbara Steele is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday... (wikipedia)

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.