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And I think that is absolutely what he's like and that he plays a seductive villain and he says in the memoir he enjoys β
playing his villains with a hint of mischief and i think that also is a hugely appealing and seductive way to play a villain bit like alan rickman in die hard as well right absolutely it's a great great quality for a victim for a villain so um tim curry had a stroke i think 12 to 15 years ago quite a while ago and so a bit like when i was talking about the michael j fox memoir he's
Vocal delivery is compromised compared to what it used to be, right?
So you have to just let that settle when you start listening.
But you do, as with Michael J. Fox, you just adapt to it.
And actually the pace at which he reads forces you to kind of slow down and just listen.
And I think, you know,
He's got a slow old man's delivery, but that doesn't mean the stories still aren't absolute crackers.
So I think you've just got to kind of go with it.
If you think that you couldn't tolerate that, you could just read it, obviously.
But I kind of quite enjoy hearing his voice because he's still got a very β he has β he's able to speak with clarity and
And he still has that beautiful kind of arch tone to his voice that I thoroughly enjoy.
Anyway, there's many, many bits of it that are incredibly interesting.
But some of the trivia around him playing Frank, I think one of the reasons he does it so brilliantly in the film is because he'd been doing it on the stage for a really long time.
So he'd had a long time to work out.
what he thought the character was and how to kind of convey it.
When they originally were trying to come up with the voice, which is this kind of almost queen-like British accent, like, oh, I do hope that you blah, blah, blah.