It was so wide, it was a little difficult to maneuver around in it very easily, but we managed.” When he did, it went right down and I couldn’t see out of the eye port, so he had to rig up a harness in there. “Our set manager made it wanted to try it on me to make sure it would fit OK. “It was made out of chicken wire and paper machete,” Badham said. She has vivid memories of this “playtime,” like acting inside a Halloween ham costume. We had this push-pull relationship like brothers and sisters, so it played very well on film because … we’d have these knockdown, drag-out fights. “It was John and Phillip against me! You’ve got two guys wanting to play and do their thing, and here’s this girl trying to get in on stuff. “We just did our scenes day by day,” Badham said. On screen, Phillip Alford played brother Jem, while John Megna played their pal Dill. “He gets a call from my mother, ‘Baby sister is going to be in a movie.’ He’s like, ‘What?’ Fast forward, ‘Baby sister has been nominated for an Academy Award,’ and I don’t think he’s ever forgiven me!” “All he ever wanted to do was be in film and theater, that was his goal, he studied at Yale, working hard, beating his brains out to make it,” Badham said. She’ll never forget getting the role of Scout, which caused a good-natured sibling rivalry with brother John Badham, the future director of “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). Those three guys were my male role models.” “I had my daddy, I had Gregory Peck and I had Brock Peters. “Brock and I did a symphony program together … in Kansas where they played some pieces of music, then between the music we would tell little behind-the-scenes stories … things that happened off-camera,” Badham said. She was also mentored by Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson in the film. He and Bernice picked up where Mother and Daddy left off.” “ would take the time to pick up the phone and call: ‘How are you doing, kiddo?’ … Whenever I was in Los Angeles, I’d go to their house. “My mother died three weeks after I graduated high school and Daddy died two years after I got married,” Badham said. Indeed, Peck became a real-life father figure to Badham, who lost her parents young. He was so kind, generous, intelligent, well-read and just a very good role model for me because I lost my parents very early in my life.” We became very close and stayed friends right up until he passed. “I would go home with the Pecks on the weekend. “What you saw on screen is what we got at home,” Badham said. 1 Movie Hero of All Time when it compiled its list in 2003. Of course, the role was originally played by Gregory Peck, who turned Atticus into the American Film Institute’s No. I couldn’t be more pleased with the whole entire cast. … Of course, Melanie Moore playing Scout, she is just brilliant. “He would have been my first choice for an Atticus because I just feel like he embodies all of that. “He is so brilliant with it,” Badham said. DuBose opposite Richard Thomas (“The Waltons”), who assumes the role of Atticus Finch, recently played on Broadway by Jeff Daniels. … It’s been a real learning experience for me. … I was totally unsure about doing the part. I never thought to be a part of it at all, then they called and kept asking. “I went to see the Broadway production and was just totally overwhelmed,” Badham told WTOP. Starting Tuesday, Mary Badham stars in “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Kennedy Center in the national tour of the 2018 Broadway production, which was adapted from Harper Lee’s novel and Horton Foote’s screenplay by playwright Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher. She played the original Scout Finch in the 1962 movie classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” WTOP's Jason Fraley chats with Scout of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Part 1) Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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