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Holy Flying Circus (cert. 15) is out now on DVD (£15.99) by FremantleMedia Enterprises
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Check out this interview with the cast (Thanks go out to THE 2ND NICEST BLOKE IN THE WORLD for posting it HERE)
Janice Forsyth (Interviewer): [On Rufus playing Palin’s wife] I must say, growing up in the 70’s, Michael Palin was the one I was in love with, y’know. I’ve devoured his diaries, and I’m sure like many women, y’know he was the one that we’d all imagine being married to… So here you are in a position that so many women would envy; indulging in a little pillow talk with your husband…
*plays audio clip from HFC*
Janice: ...I have to say, Tony, Charles Edwards just becomes Michael Palin!
Tony Roche: I know – it’s really, really uncanny.
Rufus Jones: Yeah, yeah.
Tony: I mean he’s… in real life, also a phenomenally nice man, and it turned out, I didn’t realise until after we finished shooting he said he was a huge Michael Palin admirer.
Janice: It was perhaps really easy for him to become him on screen?
Tony: Maybe, yeah. But he was incredible – and also was probably the most difficult part to cast in a way because all the other characters had something, y’know, like Rufus was saying you could ‘latch onto’ to kind of ‘signal’… some ‘essence’ of their comic persona. Whereas Michael Palin’s just a fairly decent ordinary kind of guy so it would be incredibly hard to be that person, but he was amazing.
Listen to the whole thing at The Comedy Cafe (BBC Radio Scotland).
