âIf I was in Outlander, Iâd be âhag-up-a-hillsideâ - Elaine C Smith on playing 'real' Glasgow women
âIf I was in Outlander, Iâd be âhag-up-a-hillsideâ Elaine C Smith on playing 'real' Glasgow women
SHE is famous for bringing no-nonsense, heart-of-gold Glasgow women, warts and all, to the stage and screen.
Elaine C Smith, whose best-known characters over the decades have included long-suffering Mary Doll in Rab C Nesbitt, gullible Dolly in The Steamie and brutally honest Christine in Two Doors Down, admits it is unlikely we will ever see her po-faced and trussed up in period garb.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m not averse to an Outlander or a Downtown Abbey,” she muses. “But I’d be the cook. Or the nurse. There was talk of an Outlander episode at one point, I think, but probably ‘hag-up-a-hillside’ or the like….”