Credits - 6 Degrees
Apr. 11th, 2005 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vardathemessageThere is no one quite like Eddie Izzard. He's acted on stage - playing Lenny Bruce and the lead in "A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg" - to much acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. He's done a variety of great cameo roles on film. But he's most well known for his stand up routines which are rapid fire ideas about history and people that are at the same time absurd and perfectly sensible. Here's a good idea of them. And then there's the cross dressing. He's straight, he just likes the gear, and refers to himself as an 'executive transvestite' or "it's male tomboy, it's not drag queen." An analysis of Eddie's sartorial sense here.
In interviews he's joked that "Jerry Divine is not based upon Tony DeFries. No way, I based him on my dad (legal reasons)". He spoke to the BBC's Jonathan Ross about the film:
Ross: I haven't seen Velvet Goldmine, what's your opinion of it?
Eddie: Well I loved it, it's not totally successful, it's Todd Haynes' problem, Todd drives it where he wants, but he knew exactly what he wanted to do. It was a shooting script when we got it and not a big mainstream Die Hard-type movie, but it's a beautiful film and I really enjoyed doing the role. And people seemed to be quite pleased with what I've done. People said very positive things back to me.
Ross: But to your face it's very hard to be honest...
Eddie: Well no, I've tried to check that because I've found the thing is, if people really hated you but get on with you so don't want to say it to your face, they just say I didn't see it. And no one can really check that.
Ross: I really didn't see it.
Eddie: I know, but that's the easy way to deal with it. But the thing I'm trying to say is not that I was actually that great, but I think I was fine, I held the dramatic role together, but I think people were expecting me to be a gaggy kind of guy, and they were kind of surprised by that so they gave me extra points. I would have liked to have more layers and be able to push more.
Ross: Was the movie what Todd hoped it would be?
Eddie: Yeah. He said he wanted something that would stick around and confuse people and create different waves. Obviously it confused them: people loved it, people hated it.
His connections to Bowie are that he narrated the "David Bowie" segment of VH1's documentary Legends and in the BBC TV series, Father Ted he played a Ziggy Stardust Impersonator. (!)
Added Esoterica, 6 Degrees variety: Brian Eno played a "Father Eno" on an episode of Father Ted. Another guest actor on that show was Maraid McKinley, a name known to us because it is at the top of the credits, when listed in order of appearance, as 'Wilde's Housemaid'.
In interviews he's joked that "Jerry Divine is not based upon Tony DeFries. No way, I based him on my dad (legal reasons)". He spoke to the BBC's Jonathan Ross about the film:
Ross: I haven't seen Velvet Goldmine, what's your opinion of it?
Eddie: Well I loved it, it's not totally successful, it's Todd Haynes' problem, Todd drives it where he wants, but he knew exactly what he wanted to do. It was a shooting script when we got it and not a big mainstream Die Hard-type movie, but it's a beautiful film and I really enjoyed doing the role. And people seemed to be quite pleased with what I've done. People said very positive things back to me.
Ross: But to your face it's very hard to be honest...
Eddie: Well no, I've tried to check that because I've found the thing is, if people really hated you but get on with you so don't want to say it to your face, they just say I didn't see it. And no one can really check that.
Ross: I really didn't see it.
Eddie: I know, but that's the easy way to deal with it. But the thing I'm trying to say is not that I was actually that great, but I think I was fine, I held the dramatic role together, but I think people were expecting me to be a gaggy kind of guy, and they were kind of surprised by that so they gave me extra points. I would have liked to have more layers and be able to push more.
Ross: Was the movie what Todd hoped it would be?
Eddie: Yeah. He said he wanted something that would stick around and confuse people and create different waves. Obviously it confused them: people loved it, people hated it.
His connections to Bowie are that he narrated the "David Bowie" segment of VH1's documentary Legends and in the BBC TV series, Father Ted he played a Ziggy Stardust Impersonator. (!)
Added Esoterica, 6 Degrees variety: Brian Eno played a "Father Eno" on an episode of Father Ted. Another guest actor on that show was Maraid McKinley, a name known to us because it is at the top of the credits, when listed in order of appearance, as 'Wilde's Housemaid'.
