00:00When I'm ever in front of an audience, I always say,
00:03your grandmother was a s**t.
00:13Hello, Nell Campbell.
00:15I could show you my...
00:17Hi, Barry Bostwick here.
00:18My name's Brad Majors.
00:20I'm Patricia Quinn.
00:21We're all lucky!
00:22Hello, I'm Tim Curry.
00:24Hard to do, I.
00:26We're the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
00:28Today, we're going to answer questions in honour of the 50th anniversary.
00:34Hey, hey, should we get started?
00:36Well, for God's sake, let's get started.
00:39Should we get started?
00:40Go for it.
00:41I'm ready.
00:42I'm marginally alert.
00:44You're lucky.
00:49Well, you guys got cast off the street.
00:53I mean, you were there forever.
00:54Yeah, we were hookers.
00:55You were.
00:56Yeah, you were working the block.
00:58I was working the block and tap shoes.
01:00I was a very serious actress, actually.
01:02Yes, you were.
01:03I was busking in the streets of London, and Jim saw me busking, and I used to dress in top
01:08hat and tails and tap dance and sing 1930s and 40s songs, and I was tap dancing on a tabletop.
01:16They walked into the cafe, and Jim just turned to Richard O'Brien and said, and there's your servant.
01:23Lucky to be invited up to Frank's laboratory.
01:26I saw you in a play called ACDC.
01:28Oh, yes, you're right.
01:29And you were amazing.
01:31Bless your heart.
01:32That was upstairs at the Royal Court.
01:33Same room, same building.
01:35I actually suggested that they should talk to you.
01:39Wow.
01:41Never knew that.
01:42Yeah, it's true.
01:43Good heavens.
01:45Things you find out.
01:46And the reason that I did it is because of Tim, because we saw him on stage at the Roxy.
01:53You just ate that theater up, and it was, how could I not want to be, you know, in a musical
01:59with you?
02:00It was an extraordinary experience for me, and I learned so much about how to walk in high
02:06heels.
02:06I bumped into Richard O'Brien, who I knew from the touring company of Hair.
02:15I said, what are you doing on my street?
02:17And he said, I've written a musical, and you should...
02:21Audition?
02:23Yeah.
02:23I sang Tutti Frutti from Little Richard.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Which was pretty fruity, really.
02:32Susan come...
02:33To the audition, and that's why he cast...
02:36But you and Susan were an item at the time.
02:39Oh, well, we're not going to talk about that.
02:41That is!
02:41I am Rocky!
02:42I knew her a little...
02:44You suggested her for it.
02:46I think I maybe did.
02:47Yeah.
02:52It was the birth of Rocky, which was pretty...
02:54You only had one take with doing all those colors, remember?
02:59Yes.
02:59Pouring that, because that was a big deal.
03:02And Jim Sharman said that was the only day he went overtime.
03:06He'd put a half day aside to film it.
03:09That was the only day.
03:10And, of course, you were perfection.
03:12We were all perfection.
03:14But it took ages because of all the water.
03:16And then he said he drove back to the city with the producers,
03:19and they just said to Jim, hurry up.
03:22Jumping into the pool, I had a feeling it was a little cold, wasn't it?
03:27I hated that.
03:28Yeah.
03:29It was cold.
03:30But it was worth it, Mr. Titanic.
03:33It was bloody cold, and we had to have an orgy.
03:36And as I tell folk, a wet orgy is the same as a dry orgy.
03:41You all gravitate toward the star.
03:46We have very lovely memories, except we're damn cold.
03:54Yeah.
03:55And Susan got pneumonia.
03:57I've never heard of that.
03:58Oh, yes, she tells everybody.
04:05The floor show.
04:07We had to do that dance routine, sopping wet, very cold,
04:13in five-inch heels, and next to nothing.
04:16But you look very sexy, Poodle.
04:19All of you.
04:20Oh, thank you, darling.
04:22I wasn't in that scene.
04:23Everyone who was looked sexy, but you always looked sexy.
04:28Exactly.
04:34Well, the thing is, when we were doing the show upstairs at the Royal Court,
04:38it was only partly written the show.
04:40Richard O'Brien was asked to bring songs in,
04:43and Jim Sharman said to him,
04:44I need a song that maybe you could do a dance to,
04:47and I need a song for you three.
04:50He came back the next morning with something called The Time Walk.
04:53And I thought, oh, God, do we have to learn all that?
05:00If I'm right, it was just improvised.
05:03There was no choreographer or anything.
05:06It tells you how to do it, Tim.
05:08It's just a jump to the left and a step to the right,
05:12because we couldn't afford choreographers,
05:13so he had to tell us how to do it.
05:15And I thought it was ingenious to actually write down how to do the dance.
05:23It wasn't particularly fun.
05:27The corset, I had Sue Blaine,
05:31who was the brilliant costume designer.
05:34She went to the local market,
05:36which was called the Barras.
05:39Americans call it a swap meet, I think.
05:42Oh, God, talk about taking the fun out of it.
05:45But it, yeah, but she bought this corset,
05:48a Victorian corset, for three pounds,
05:53and I wore it backwards.
05:55I told you it was innovative.
05:57Ah!
05:58I think one of the reasons that this film,
06:02well, there's many reasons I feel that this film
06:04has survived 50 years.
06:06Tim's portrayal of Dr. Frankenfurter,
06:09and when he sings, you know,
06:11On the Day I Went Away,
06:13it's very moving.
06:15And I realise
06:16I'm going home
06:22We were exhausted.
06:32We worked from dawn till dusk.
06:34We had no money to make this film.
06:38It was done in a matter of how many weeks?
06:39Five weeks.
06:40Unheard of to do a musical in that time
06:44because the budget didn't exist.
06:46Only $900,000.
06:49And dawn till dusk and nothing.
06:51So there was no time for friendships
06:53or chats or anything, unfortunately.
06:55Yeah.
06:56Well, most of us were friends
06:58because it was, you know,
06:59very much the original cast
07:01except for Susan and Barry
07:03because 20th Century Fox had insisted
07:05we, Jim, hire Americans
07:07to play Brad and Janet.
07:08And of course, we were like,
07:10Americans? Really?
07:12Really?
07:13I'm that much of a disappointment to you.
07:15I tell you what,
07:16you've been an absolutely fantastic Brad
07:20ever since.
07:20I'm glad there is a new generation.
07:28I do a lot of comic cons and things
07:30and I have magentas this size as me
07:32and Grandmama was first
07:35and Mummy was second
07:36so I kind of know the generations
07:38and it's wonderful.
07:39It's really exciting.
07:41All these children dancing
07:43in front of the telly screens
07:44to the time walk.
07:45There isn't a kid
07:46who doesn't know how to time walk,
07:47it seems to me.
07:48It's rather lovely.
07:54The most moving aspect
07:55of the success for 50 years and counting.
08:00It's helped so many people
08:02accept their sexuality
08:03and they find these communities
08:05within the shadow cast.
08:08I've met lots of people
08:09that have married,
08:10had children
08:11and that is magical
08:13because we recognise how in general
08:16conservative particularly America is
08:18and it is still hard for some people
08:21to come out about their sexuality
08:23and this film is a celebration
08:26of bisexuality,
08:29heterosexuality,
08:31homosexuality,
08:32transsexuality
08:33and cross-dressing.
08:35It's like
08:35don't dream it,
08:37be it.
08:38Don't dream it.
08:40The motto
08:45don't dream it,
08:46be it
08:47is not necessarily
08:48limited to your sexuality.
08:51I think it
08:52I think it applies
08:55to whatever you dream
08:57to be
08:59and that's a good thing.
09:01Yeah, yeah.
09:02Absolutely.
09:03If it gives people permission
09:06to behave
09:07in a sexual way
09:09that they secretly want to,
09:11that's a good thing
09:12as long as it doesn't hurt them.
09:14Our characters
09:15were all quite real
09:17and I think
09:18that's one of the reasons
09:19people responded to them
09:20so well originally
09:22and with the film.
09:24Thank you so much for watching.
09:26Thank you, thank you, thank you.
09:29This is the way it is, is it?
09:31Okay.
09:32Yes.
09:34Who are you?
09:35I have no idea.
09:36No, really?
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