Tim Curry
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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.
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.
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.
Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.
Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.
Was that because of... It was my first movie, you know.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And it just started in this tiny theater, you know, and it just took off like a sort of rocket.
And it just started in this tiny theater, you know, and it just took off like a sort of rocket.