By Ceola WilsonAnglo-French actress Jacqueline Bisset, who shot to superstardom after appearing in the Bermuda-based underwater thriller “The Deep”, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 66th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland over the weekend.Born on September 13, 1944, Ms Bisset has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award.Embarking on a film career in the 1960s, she worked with such renowned directors as Roman Polanski, John Huston and Stanley Donen before her role in “The Deep”, based on the best-selling novel by “Jaws” author Peter Benchley, made her a household name in 1977.The film, directed by Peter Yates, was largely shot on location in Bermuda during the summer of 1976 and told the story of a vacationing couple (Ms Bisset and Nick Nolte) who discover two treasures while diving on the Island’s reefs; 17th century Spanish gold and liquid morphine from a medical supply ship wrecked off the Island in the Second World War.Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr co-starred alongside the late Robert Shaw who played Romer Treece, a diver and adventurer loosely based on the real Bermuda treasure diver Teddy Tucker.In an interview with The Mid-Ocean News in 2004 when she returned to the island with author Mr Benchley and director Mr Yates for a fundraising event at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, Ms Bisset said her memories of Bermuda during the making of The Deep “were diffuse and somewhat impressionistic”.“It was very consuming, in terms of the diving. My memory of Bermuda is a mixed one, because I can’t remember having a lot of time off. I remember seeing great beauty, and I loved the soft colours of the houses, and the distinctive architecture, and these are the predominant memories, but we were working all the time.“I don’t remember much socialising, or going to many restaurants or clubs. I stayed at the Southampton Princess while we were shooting, but we were on the set all the time, I think six days a week.“But it was an amazing experience, beyond the obvious things like comfort and beauty. From my point of view, not being a good swimmer when I began, and realising that diving and swimming have little to do with each other, it was a memorable experience. We had to do a lot of swimming under water, and there were long distances to cover from point A to B.“There was, effectively, a whole language to get in touch with to be able, technically, to shoot a film under water: where to go, and what to do, and how not to cause problems for all of our colleagues. Inadvertently, I almost caused some problems for (co-star) Nick (Nolte), and we became even more aware, under water, how dependent we were on each other.”Asked whether the aquatic experience had converted her into a water lover, she replied: “I have not put my head under water since.“I am certainly a better swimmer now than when I filmed ‘The Deep’.”