![]() ![]() Regardless of Lucas' reputation as a director of actors, if someone of Terence Stamp's talent needed direction to do what was basically a cameo, then I. Stamp reckons this is down to Caine deliberately disassociating himself from him after becoming a star. Both of these actors had maybe 4 lines each. “I can’t think of anything that’s more attractive than light,” Stamp told the Thomson Reuters Foundation before a screening of the movie at the BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival.ĭirected by Sydney-born Stephan Elliott, “Priscilla” traces the adventures of two drag queens and a transsexual woman as they cross the Australian outback performing for enthusiastic crowds while also facing homophobic locals. Despite their being roommates when they were unknown actors, Terence Stamp admits that he and Michael Caine have never kept in contact. saying how much they liked ‘Priscilla’ brings a light into my life”. The Oscar-nominated actor, who held the title of the world’s best-looking man in the 1960s, said that to be approached by “gay guys on the street. In the Australian LGBT+ movie, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary, Stamp played Bernadette, winning plaudits for the sensitivity he brought to the role. Maybe J.J.LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Renown for dating some of the world’s most beautiful women, British 1960s film icon Terence Stamp said he was as surprised as anyone to become a gay icon after playing a transsexual woman in the film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”. Terence Stamp Birth Place: London, England Profession Actor, author Actor 80 Credits His Dark Materials 2020 The Best of Hollywood 2017 Smallville 2011 My Wife Is an Actress The Alamut Ambush Amo. Putting that creepy bit of info to one side, Stamp also spoke of his lousy pay (“2 and 6 and a toffee apple”) and how he was also convinced to take part by the promise that he’d be playing a man who was essentially “the President of the Universe.” Apparently Lucas also gave Stamp a present for coming back for an extra day’s unpaid work to pick up a shot he’d earlier missed…a set of Star Wars stencils. “I must admit, I had a terrible crush on ,” Stamp said of why he took the job – who troublingly at the time of filming was around 60 years-old, while Portman would have not yet turned 18. Serafinowicz himself interviewed Stamp last year while presenting a show on BBC Radio 6 Music and asked him whether he’d had a similarly demoralizing experience, and that interview helps puts Stamp’s more recent comments into context. Serafinowicz, meanwhile, has gone on record in the past about his brief and awkward meeting with George Lucas in a recording studio, for which he was paid a pittance, before having to pay for his own ticket to the film’s premiere and being bitterly disappointed by what he saw. ‘The Tick’ Trailer: Meet the New Friends and Foes of Amazon’s Strange Superhero Team “It was just pretty boring,” said Stamp…and it certainly sounds it. I didn’t feel he was a director of actors, he was more interested in stuff and effects.” That won’t sound all that surprising to anyone who’s ever watched a film directed by Lucas, so why did Stamp say yes to him in the first place? Well apparently he wanted to meet Natalie Portman, but when he arrived on set the young actress was absent and Stamp had to instead act against a piece of paper stuck on the wall. Stamp recently told Empire (via Den Of Geek) that he hadn’t had the best of times working with George Lucas, stating: “We didn’t get on at all. His vast array of life interests (acting, breath and mysticism) and professional performances (Billy Budd to Crooked House) herald a man of depth with talents rarely found within many modern day thespians. British comedian, actor and presenter Peter Serafinowicz provided the voice of Darth Maul in Lucas’ first prequel, while Terence Stamp took on the cameo role of Chancellor Valorum, and it sounds like they both had similarly disappointing experiences. The name, Terence Stamp, brings to mind a brilliant chameleon of unlimited potential and exquisite expertise. Well, that’s according to two of the actors who played minor roles in “ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” anyway. You know how it was no fun to watch those “ Star Wars” prequels it sounds like they were no fun to make either.
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