Got this via @RobinInce — an interview with Christopher Lee in which he talks about Peter Cushing and their shared fondness for Sylvester and Tweety Pie.
I now consider myself excused if I occasionally descend into being five years old again.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Oh. Oh my. Now I have to get out all my Looney Tunes discs. And the director’s cut of The Wicker Man, gotta see Lord Summerisle once more.
If he had tried this tactic with Sauron, he could have avoided a lot of bloodshed.
Cushing played Frankenstein. Lee was The Creature.
Lee was also Dracula.
Is it wrong to love Warner bros. cartoons and yet know that they were incredibly racist, sexist, and bigoted?
One of my favorites is when Daffy wins the day . Sadly, he has to die to defeat Bugs Bunny. I think it had something to do with gunpowder, nitro-glycerin, uranium-238, and a lit match.
Personally, I would have gone with Saruman and Moff Tarkin.
Speakking of Grand Moff Tarkin, I just saw Rogue 1 and zombie Peter Cushing was done pretty well. There was even a weird credit about thanking the Disney Research team about Peter Cushing’s teeth
Spoiler Space:
Carrie Fisher did not get a credit, just a “Thanks”.
Christopher Lee was a trained opera singer. You can hear him sing in The Wicker Man, which is far and away his best movie, no other even comes close. The Wicker Man was also Lee’s personal favorite, and he was so excited by the screenplay that he did the movie for free, no salary, no compensation.
handsomemrtoad @8:
He said it was the best film he’d made, but I’ve read and heard (Ben Mankiewicz quoted Lee before a TCM airing of the film) that The Devil Rides Out was his personal favourite. I also preferred it, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, to The Wicker Man. And much as I’ve enjoyed Lee’s work, I think Edward Woodward*’s performance was what really made the film work.
*He was also excellent in the superb Australian film Breaker Morant.
Thank you for posting this. A very touching interview about a lifelong friendship.
As every QI fan will know, Peter Cushing lived in Whitstable
Christopher Lee could have read the phonebook to me and I’d have paid attention to every single word. He didn’t only do the voice acting in the Last Unicorn, but also in the German version. His German was amazing and 99% free of any English accent, but the remain 1% made it even better. Something ever so slightly “off” hard to put your finger on.
Rob @ 9:
I almost agree. The play between Woodward and Lee is something to be savoured. Unless you have the extended director’s cut, you end up missing some excellent work by Woodward, regarding the character’s backstory, and things like him trembling from the attempt to suppress his sexual feelings. It’s a superb performance.