Andy Serkis has said that musician Ian Dury was rude and insulting when the pair met. The Blockheads frontman, who died of metastatic liver cancer in 2000, is played by fan Serkis in upcoming biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Serkis told The Guardian of their meeting: "He was obnoxious. We were in a Chinese restaurant and he slagged everybody off and was just an arse, you know. "And that same night, Mickey Gallagher, who was one of the Blockheads but was caring for him, just went, 'F**k this, I'm not doing it anymore', and he left Ian on the pavement outside the hotel." He added of the movie: "I knew we weren't going to be painting a glorified picture of a stoic underdog, it was going to be warts and all. "When we started showing (more)...
- 1/4/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
- 1/2/2010
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
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