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It's set in Transylvania and he is at, as at home in that outfit.

That's what everyone wears in Transylvania.

And then the other thing he said that I thought was so fascinating was he said, even though he's wearing like a corset and fishnets and suspenders and the whole thing,

and and makeup he is a man he is a powerful masculine man and he said you wear your heels like a man and i just thought that was so um spot on for it just really helped me understand why he lands that character yeah so well

It was kind of, you know, when the film opened, it had been really successful on Broadway and then it flopped, sorry, it had been really successful on West End and then it flopped on Broadway really badly.

And it was, he said it was so embarrassing because he was staying in this fancy hotel and he, I forget which one it was, one of the really famous New York hotels, and he thought, of course, because it had been a big hit in London, it was going to be huge on Broadway and then it just flopped.

It got a horrendous review in the New York Times.

And when he went to pay the bill, he couldn't,

pay the bill um and he said to the hotel manager he said he was just so embarrassed and mortified and he said i am i am so sorry i actually cannot afford the bill and the hotel manager he said it was one of the great acts of kindness of his life that the hotel manager said um

you'll be back and you can pay me then.

And then he said very short time after he was in a play on Broadway that was a massive hit and he said, I went in with a wad of cash and took great pride in just counting out the notes to that guy that I owed.

So but when the film opened, it was also not a hit and it became a hit because of the cult midnight screenings where people would go and start yelling at the screen and that's where it kind of, you know, took off from.

So anyway, it's fascinating.

His backstory of he was an army, the other bit of trivia I learnt, which I've gone for 53 years without knowing, as a child of an army father, you're always referred to as an army brat, military brat.

I thought that was inherently because people thought that children of servicemen were brats.

That's what I believed.

It stands for British Regimental Accompanying Traveller.

No way.

Yeah.

It was for people who were on a posting with the service person, so mostly referring to spouses and children.