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At the beginning of filming Quinn and Australian cast mate Little Nell were given instructions on how to catch the bus to the studio, as the tight budget didn’t allow for a car to be sent for the actors. With the less famous cast attached the films budget was reduced. “Mick Jagger was interested in Frank”, says Quinn “Bowie loved Frank, they all wanted to be Frank and he stuck to his guns and said ‘No, I want Tim Curry’, also me and Nell who’d never made films, I have nothing but admiration.”
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Quinn is full of praise for Director Jim Sharman who stuck with the original cast despite interest from more established names. While American actors Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick took the roles of Brad and Janet, Tim Curry continued as Frank n Furter, Little Nell carried as Columbia and the show’s creator Richard O’Brien remained as Riff Raff. The producers managed to talk her round though and soon Quinn rejoined most of the original stage cast for the filming. The usherette sings that and then I become Magenta, she doubles up… they said “no, it won’t work”, so I said, “Well I’m sorry then, I don’t want to do this film’.”
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Quinn recalls, “I said to them ‘So I’m not singing Science Fiction?’ because that’s the only reason I took the part in the first place, not for Magenta, but for that song. When the producers mentioned that the opening of the film would be different to the play revealing that the Usherette who walks through the theatre singing the song Science Fiction would be dropped, the meeting headed in the wrong direction. The Producers took Quinn out to lunch to persuade her to join the film’s cast.
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“I actually turned the film down.” says Quinn who left the stage production after its short run to play suffragette Christabel Pankhurst in a BBC TV series. OUTinPerth spoke to her from her home in London’s Primrose Hill. Today Patricia Quinn is Patricia, Lady Stephens through her marriage to fellow actor the late Sir Robert Stephens. Quinn played the role of Magenta in the original stage production and reprised the role for the film version. It began as a three week theatrical production over 40 years ago and it has become a worldwide entertainment phenomenon with both the theatrical and the film version of The Rocky Horror Show continually growing in popularity and being discovered by new audiences. “You have to sing some sort of rock and roll song and it’s something do with a circus or something,” the agent replied.
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In 1973 actress Patricia Quinn’s agent had called her and said, “There’s something upstairs at The Royal Court they’d like you to audition for”, the actress pressed her agent for more information. The bright lips on the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ poster are iconic, but whose lips are they? We delve into the OUTinPerth archives to find out.