Note again the Warp time – 50 years later.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Makes his birthday birthday this year and, to celebrate the Academy Museum, organized a special projection of the new 4K Remaster Friday evening, accompanied by a conversation with the star Tim Curry. Barry Bostwick (who played Brad Majors), Patricia Quinn (Magenta), Nell Campbell (Columbia) and producer Lou Adler, who all joined Curry for photos.
Curry was encountered by a huge standing ovation while he went on stage – in front of a closed and costume crowded crowds, much clinging to accessories sold in the hall – joking: “I am so excited by that and very honored by the Academy to make this presentation of our film, which dragged for 50 years.”
He thought about the role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the theater before making his cinema debut Rocky horrorTeasing that “Jim Sharman’s realization technique was that you were not allowed to bother him, and if he was not bored, he remained in it”.
Curry noted that because of the name of the character, he “played it originally with a German accent, which obviously bored Jim”; Later, he found the right accent on a bus in London, while listening to a conversation between two upper class women. “They wanted to look like the queen and it seemed appropriate to Frank, really, who clearly thought he was the queen,” he added.
He also spoke of doing his own makeup when the show was on stage – “it was like a street whore” – but when it was the film, the professional makeup artist Pierre La Roche was brought. Curry admitted: “I was horrified, in fact, by his first attempt because I thought I was ready for the Rounway; it was just too polite for me. I wanted to do everything.
Patricia Quinn, Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, Tim Curry and the shadow distribution.
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By thinking at 50 years of cult fandom, Curry said that the film being particularly embraced by the LGBTQ public “means a lot because I think that the message of the film – does not dream – is very important. One of the things that the film does, I think, is to give anyone to behave as badly as it really wishes, in any way and with whom I am proud. ”
He added that the film “certainly chose me from the pack for a while” when it was his postRocky horror Career, but “I don’t think it helped throw at all. I was really very worried that it was going to be difficult, but that was not the case.” The actor recalled when the director Stephen Frears contacted him Three men in a boat“And I said,” What makes you think that I can play a Victorian bank clerk? “And he said,” If you can play Frank-N-Furter, you can play anything. “”
Curry closed the evening by approaching his health, after a 2012 stroke that left him in a wheelchair.
“I was doing a massage at the time and I even noticed anything, but the guy who was doing the massage said:” I worry about you, I want to call an ambulance. “And he did it, and I said,” It’s so silly, “said Curry.” I still can’t walk, that’s why I’m in this silly chair, and it’s very limiting. So I will not sing and I will not dance very soon. I always have real problems with my left leg. ” With his signature humor, he then let the yawn escape and said: “It’s terribly late, isn’t it? Why don’t we show the photo? “
