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Tim Curry

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105 total appearances

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Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

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Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

That's right.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

That's right.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

That's so nice. I mean, it's sort of important for me because, you know, that first performance that sort of introduced me to everybody was so out there and so... I'll say, yeah. So kind of outrageous that, you know, I was a very quiet boy for a while, you know, just to make sure that people got it, that, you know, that wasn't necessarily who I was.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

That's so nice. I mean, it's sort of important for me because, you know, that first performance that sort of introduced me to everybody was so out there and so... I'll say, yeah. So kind of outrageous that, you know, I was a very quiet boy for a while, you know, just to make sure that people got it, that, you know, that wasn't necessarily who I was.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

That's so nice. I mean, it's sort of important for me because, you know, that first performance that sort of introduced me to everybody was so out there and so... I'll say, yeah. So kind of outrageous that, you know, I was a very quiet boy for a while, you know, just to make sure that people got it, that, you know, that wasn't necessarily who I was.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

I got the part because I used to work a great deal at a theater in London called the Royal Court. And I guess they have a little theater upstairs which seats about 60 people and I did Brecht there and I did a sort of Rudyard Kipling show there and...

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

I got the part because I used to work a great deal at a theater in London called the Royal Court. And I guess they have a little theater upstairs which seats about 60 people and I did Brecht there and I did a sort of Rudyard Kipling show there and...

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

I got the part because I used to work a great deal at a theater in London called the Royal Court. And I guess they have a little theater upstairs which seats about 60 people and I did Brecht there and I did a sort of Rudyard Kipling show there and...

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And I guess the next show, I did a dreadful musical, a Marxist musical called Give the Gaffers Time to Love You, with a director who kept saying, Barry, the second act just simply isn't Marxist enough. And that, of course, never even opened to the critics. But the next show coming in was this... other musical called The Rocky Horror Show.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And I guess the next show, I did a dreadful musical, a Marxist musical called Give the Gaffers Time to Love You, with a director who kept saying, Barry, the second act just simply isn't Marxist enough. And that, of course, never even opened to the critics. But the next show coming in was this... other musical called The Rocky Horror Show.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And I guess the next show, I did a dreadful musical, a Marxist musical called Give the Gaffers Time to Love You, with a director who kept saying, Barry, the second act just simply isn't Marxist enough. And that, of course, never even opened to the critics. But the next show coming in was this... other musical called The Rocky Horror Show.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And originally I played Frankenfurter as though he was German. It was Dr. Frankenfurter and everything was very interesting and stupid. And then one day I heard a woman on a bus saying, do you have a heist in time or a heist in the country? And I thought, yes, she should sound like the queen. So... He should sound like the queen. But that's how it happened.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And originally I played Frankenfurter as though he was German. It was Dr. Frankenfurter and everything was very interesting and stupid. And then one day I heard a woman on a bus saying, do you have a heist in time or a heist in the country? And I thought, yes, she should sound like the queen. So... He should sound like the queen. But that's how it happened.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And originally I played Frankenfurter as though he was German. It was Dr. Frankenfurter and everything was very interesting and stupid. And then one day I heard a woman on a bus saying, do you have a heist in time or a heist in the country? And I thought, yes, she should sound like the queen. So... He should sound like the queen. But that's how it happened.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And it just started in this tiny theater, you know, and it just took off like a sort of rocket.

Fresh Air
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'

And it just started in this tiny theater, you know, and it just took off like a sort of rocket.

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