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Having added film director to his lengthy resume, is there a medium Fry now favors? "My cheap answer to this, but it's kind of true, is, I always love the one I'm not working in," he says with a laugh "If I'm onstage, I think, 'Oh, God, every day it's the same thing and the same lines and the same audience with the same routine sitting in the same chair and wearing the same costume Q
His work as a performer, writer, and general intellectual-about-town has been seen in just about every forum, from the stage and screen to the pages of a book, newspaper, or computer screen Fry's first entry as a director is precisely what one would expect from the artist: sharp, satirical, and wickedly funny He also rounded out the smaller roles in the cast with personal friends such as Peter O'Toole and Jim Broadbent
Fry is talking about his position as the go-to guy for erudite Englishmen, a role he's played to perfection in films such as "Peter's Friends" and "I "Strange metaphor, I don't quite know why I began it Actor Fry Surpasses Limitations Behind Camera
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LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - British actor Stephen Fry (news) is probably the most eminently quotable man on the planet today I don't get the Tim Allen (news) parts, but maybe that's as well," Fry observes U ' Then when I'm on a film set I'm thinking, 'I'm cold and everything's boring and takes a long time and I have to get up so early and stare in a mirror when I could be home writing in my pajamas with a cup of coffee at my side just tapping away "
Fry was also very involved in the casting process, and cast two major roles with first-time film actors: Fenella Woolgar, who plays socialite Agatha, had attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and leading man Moore was performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Fry says he wasn't looking to direct a film "
Still, Fry is up for trying new things, which is why he decided to make his feature directorial debut with the period drama "Bright Young Things," which has been playing in limited release for three weeks "As Clint says in Magnum Force, 'A man's got to know his limitations, Briggs,"' Fry says in his thick British accent, sounding nothing like Eastwood's slow drawl "
His respect for Waugh's book also caused him to change the title of the film; "Bright Young Things" was Waugh's working title for "Vile Bodies You have to think to yourself, 'What are the qualities of this original source material that I so like and so want to translate into this new medium? What are the qualities of tone, character, or narrative?' If you lose those, why not make up your own story? On the other hand, you certainly don't have to be faithful in terms of the order of which things happen, and you can do things like take four characters and make them one character "
This all comes out in one breath, and Fry takes a moment to pause But, after being hired to write the adaptation, the opportunity was presented to him ' The other existence always seems ideal But there you are "It's a big enough field to gallop in without wishing for the pastures outside as well " Though his early sketch comedy days in the Cambridge University Footlights troupe or on the acclaimed BBC series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" allowed him to play a wide variety of characters, he's most associated with the uptight intellectuals he's played I kind of amble through the orchard of life, and if there's a tree with a particularly interesting fruit on it, I'll go and try it "
Fry has penned adaptations before -- his rewrite of the musical "Me and My Girl" snagged him a Tony nomination in 1987 -- and he wasn't daunted by the task Because, in a novel, a character's free
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," it stars Emily Mortimer and Stephen Campbell Moore as a pair of star-crossed lovers in 1930s London whose lives seem to consist of nothing but shallow parties and casual encounters Sometimes they're delicious, and sometimes they make you throw up, and sometimes you get addicted to them and can't stop and have to persuade yourself to move on to the next tree, as it were
"I think you have to be true to the reason you wanted to adapt it in the first place " His one-liners and pithy statements are devoured by others In a film, you have to pay them a salary K
So who does Fry like to quote? None other than Dirty Harry "I wish I could say that there was a kind of logical consistency and a plan of attack in my life There never has been and I don't suppose there ever will be His wit, sexuality, and talent have earned him comparisons to Oscar Wilde even before he portrayed the author in the 1997 film "Wilde "
I could be on a film set, being called Sir and given all the food I want, and every day is different
"I don't know what it is; they'll never give me the part of the blue-collar welder or something
