Stephen Fry, Peter O'Toole and LotR Gossip

[Guest]

This is an excerpt of an interview on SuicideGirls.com with Stephen Fry. He's directed a new film which costars O'Toole. I cracked up reading these bits. Hope you do too. I love both O'Toole and Fry and think them both brilliant. - Perdita

Fry: ... We are both crazy for a strange English ritual called cricket. He’s so mad about it that he actually took a course to become a qualified cricket coach. I remember watching the cricket men’s finals with him and he was smoking. A man came up to him and said “I’m sorry sir but there is no smoking here.” Peter turned to him, looked him in the eyes and said “Fuck off darling.” The man just backed off. I would love to be able to say fuck off darling to someone. It’s the darling that makes it, doesn’t it? But you have to be Peter O’Toole to be able to do that without getting kicked out.
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It’s very indiscreet for me say this but we were at a memorial service for a great English comic named Spike Milligan. I had sent him the script and I asked him if he wanted to do it. He says “I’d love to fucking do it darling. It’s fantastic. Fucking great. They kept sending me that fucking wank that twit all that fucking Tolkien. Pixies and fucking elves. That fucking adolescent masturbatory fantasies. They kept sending me that fucking thing and wanted me to play a fucking wizard. I said fuck off I don’t want to play a fucking wizard. I don’t want those useless spotty people with spectacles and bad dandruff. I’m not doing it. Then they sent around a boy with a bicycle who said he was going to wait there until I fucking read it. I said I wasn’t going to fucking read it. I’m not fucking doing it. So I told him to wait there and I will pretend to read it. I asked him why it was printed on blue paper and he said it was so no one could photocopy it. Who would want to photocopy it? Pompous cunts!” This was in a church! A crowd was gathering around. Then he said “I gather Ian McKellan is going to do it and it will fucking suit him.” That’s a little insight into the casting of Lord of the Rings.

full interview

 

[Svenskaflicka]

And all of that cussing in a Brittish acent... *drools*

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Absolutly fabulous darling.


(You're right, it doesn't work unless your Peter O'Toole. )

 

[fogbank]

And so he opted to star in Troy instead. Great story, horrible career move. But I love both O'Toole and Fry (I was just watching Blackadder this weekend and pissing myself laughing at some of the bits with Fry and Tim McInnery).

 

[Guest]

And so he opted to star in Troy instead. Great story, horrible career move.

At O'Toole's age he need not worry about 'career moves'. I could not bear to see Troy for Brad Pitt so O'Toole's presence was as tempted as I got. I daresay he found something of interest in the role of King Priam that was lacking in 'the wizard'.

Perdita

 

[fogbank]

At O'Toole's age he need not worry about 'career moves'. I could not bear to see Troy for Brad Pitt so O'Toole's presence was as tempted as I got. I daresay he found something of interest in the role of King Priam that was lacking in 'the wizard'.

Perdita

Could be; Priam is in theory a very interesting character, and O'Toole was well-cast, but good lord, the dialog in that film was on par with daytime television (apologies to any soap-opera fans). I'm curious to know if O'Toole told his son-by-casting Orlando Bloom just what he thought of "pixies and fucking elves."

 

[pop_54]

This is an excerpt of an interview on SuicideGirls.com with Stephen Fry. He's directed a new film which costars O'Toole. I cracked up reading these bits. Hope you do too. I love both O'Toole and Fry and think them both brilliant. - Perdita

Fry: ... We are both crazy for a strange English ritual called cricket. He’s so mad about it that he actually took a course to become a qualified cricket coach. I remember watching the cricket men’s finals with him and he was smoking. A man came up to him and said “I’m sorry sir but there is no smoking here.” Peter turned to him, looked him in the eyes and said “Fuck off darling.” The man just backed off. I would love to be able to say fuck off darling to someone. It’s the darling that makes it, doesn’t it? But you have to be Peter O’Toole to be able to do that without getting kicked out.
...
It’s very indiscreet for me say this but we were at a memorial service for a great English comic named Spike Milligan. I had sent him the script and I asked him if he wanted to do it. He says “I’d love to fucking do it darling. It’s fantastic. Fucking great. They kept sending me that fucking wank that twit all that fucking Tolkien. Pixies and fucking elves. That fucking adolescent masturbatory fantasies. They kept sending me that fucking thing and wanted me to play a fucking wizard. I said fuck off I don’t want to play a fucking wizard. I don’t want those useless spotty people with spectacles and bad dandruff. I’m not doing it. Then they sent around a boy with a bicycle who said he was going to wait there until I fucking read it. I said I wasn’t going to fucking read it. I’m not fucking doing it. So I told him to wait there and I will pretend to read it. I asked him why it was printed on blue paper and he said it was so no one could photocopy it. Who would want to photocopy it? Pompous cunts!” This was in a church! A crowd was gathering around. Then he said “I gather Ian McKellan is going to do it and it will fucking suit him.” That’s a little insight into the casting of Lord of the Rings.

full interview

Yes two great characters *P* darling, I can also visualise Milligan pissing himself with laughter in his coffin, he loved that kind of thing at funerals and memorials.

 

[Just-Legal]

I just adore Stephen Fry... There's a comical quiz show on BBC called QI which Fry chairs and he's just wonderful.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

O’Toole’s delivered one of his best lines in “My Favorite Year” where, as Alan Swann, he walked into a woman’s restroom.

Woman Occupant: This is for ladies only!

Alan Swann: [unzipping fly] So is THIS, ma'am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it.

In 2003, when he was informed that they wished to present him with the Academy’s Honorary Award for his lifetime achievements in film, O'Toole tried to refuse. He wrote back saying that he was still in the game and would like more time to “win the lovely bugger” outright.

In the end, O'Toole agreed to pick up his Oscar. I always thought he deserved one merely for keeping his own name.

 

[Guest]

"My Favorite Year" - great film and performance by O'Toole, he's a force of nature in it. Loved him as quixotic science prof. in "Creator" too, plays an old fart who I am glad gets the nubile girl. I hope he never dies. P.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... Loved him as quixotic science prof. in "Creator" too...

Dr. Wolper: "I tell you Boris, one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes. The first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles. "

That always seemed like an excellent argument to me for encouraging more women scientists

 

[Vincent E]

(I was just watching Blackadder this weekend and pissing myself laughing at some of the bits with Fry and Tim McInnery).

"When a man soils a Wellington he puts his foot in it. I do not find my name remotely funny, and people who do wind up dead."

"Pestilence and death stalk our land like two giant stalking things."

"Hello Blackadder."
"Hello Darling."

"Baldrick, did you tell that priest that I am a personal friend of the baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wales?"
"Yes."
"Well, what did he say?"
"He said, 'I am the baby eating bishops of Bath and Wales.'"

"We few, we happy few, we band of ruthless bastards."