Where does time fly? A decade ago, I was on the other side of the world in Los Angeles, California at the culmination of a campaign which led to one of Wales’s greatest ever actors finally being given his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On March 1 st 2013, fellow Port Talbot film star Michael Sheen gave a rousing speech as he unveiled the tribute to Richard Burton which had been placed next to Elizabeth Taylor’s star, finally reuniting Hollywood’s most famous acting couple.
Many seemed totally surprised that Burton had never been nominated for this honour and discovering that very fact is how I ended up starting the campaign to get a star for a Welsh acting legend of both stage and screen.
As with all good ideas, it began in a pub and symbolically, that pub was New York’s White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas’ favourite drinking haunt in Greenwich Village.
