It’s a part that Stephanie Dunnam has earned the right to play. No less than Katherine Hepburn played her in the 1968 film version, winning an Academy Award for her efforts. The role of tart-tongued Eleanor in The Lion in Winter, opening Saturday, is a plum for any serious dramatic actress of a certain age. She has been onstage in just about every one of America’s major theatrical centers. 'The passengers were all looking at each other and we were all thinking "this is it we're all going to go into the sea and die".Īs it dawned on the young mother that she was not sitting with her partner and son, she then thought: 'I'm going to die and I'm not going to be able to see them.Fame can be both fickle and fleeting, as actress Stephanie Dunnam knows well.ĭunnam, who’s playing the 12 th Century British queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in freeFall Theatre’s production of The Lion in Winter, has an impressive, 25-year resume of regional and national stagework, including extensive tours of hit dramas that had just come off Broadway. 'I strapped her to me squeezing holding her thinking we're going to die and "this is it".
'I honestly thought we were going to die,' Ms Crosland said. The shaking of the plane caused trays of food to fly everywhere across the cabin. 'It was shaking the whole time and there was this massive drop and everyone screaming.
'And then it dropped again,' Ms Crosland said.
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She managed to get her daughter free and strap her to securely strap her chest within a few minutes. 'I was in complete panic trying to unstrap her and the cabin crew said "it's her arm, it's her arm!" as I was trying to get her out.' It all happened so quickly that they were still out with their trolleys.'Īfter the devastating bout of turbulence the worried mother hurriedly tried to get her infant daughter out of her crib that fortunately did not fly out of, to then strap her in, but Ms Crosland struggled to do so in her panicked state. She said: 'One of the cabin crew was knocked out when a trolley hit him in the head. 'Everyone flew up in the air, everyone was screaming.'
Ms Crosland got up to strap her daughter in but then: 'As I stood up the plane dropped literally a thousand feet. 'The seatbelt sign came on with no announcement as I was half waking up, so I thought I had better get Harper out as when the sign is on you have to strap your infant to you.' 'It was a completely normal flight at the beginning - the cabin crew were serving drinks and I was half asleep and my daughter was in the bassinet,' she said. Ms Crosland, who is British but now runs a hair salon business in Australia, told MailOnline that she was sat with Harper, who was sleeping in a bassinet - but her partner Henry Trier, 32, and their son Hugo, three, were sitting a few rows behind. She clutched her one-year-old daughter Harper to her chest for dear life after the plane went into 'freefall' for what felt like 'a thousand feet at around 3am on Friday morning. Jade Crosland, 31, was flying with her partner and their two young children on the BA12 flight from Singapore to Heathrow, London when it was struck by 'severe' and 'sustained' turbulence over the Bay of Bengal. A mother-of-two has said she thought she was 'going to die' after her British Airways flight from Singapore to Heathrow 'fell out of the sky' while cruising at 30,000 feet after being hit by the worst turbulence seen in 'years'.
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