The actor and director on getting shouted at by Ken Russell, keeping it real for Elton John and when Jodie Foster made a moustache out of his hair
Is it true Alan Rickman was your best man? Bauhaus66
It is. He was responsible for my wife and me meeting. I worked with Alan when I was 14 and he convinced my now-wife to cast me in Impresario of Smyrna at the Old Red Lion theatre pub in London, about 28 years ago. It seemed only logical that I asked him to be my best man. He took me to Ireland the night before the wedding to the premiere of a Pat O’Connell film – I forget which one – and we made it back in time for the wedding the next day.
Which line from Lock Stock gets quoted at you most often? chimpo2k
I have two. “Boy, keep your fingers out of my soup,” my first line in the film. And “It’s been emotional,” even though it’s Vinnie Jones who says it, because it’s become part of the lexicon.
