“Frank and Percy”: Having fun
“Making movies is the most wonderful thing in the world. Working with friends. Entertaining people.”—Ian McKellen as James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998) Photos by Frederic Aranda
“Frank and Percy”: Friends old and new
Answer to the quiz in New Movie: A QuestionPeter Davison and Ncuti Gatwa were Dr Who 5 & 15. Joanna Lumley was an alternate version of 13th Dr for Comic Relief Red Nose Day charity special, The Curse of Fatal Death, broadcast on BBC One. Gotcha? In Frank and Percy it’s a joy to be …
“Frank and Percy” / New Movie: A Question
Ian McKellen and Roger Allam in “Frank and Percy”
“Frank and Percy” / New Movie: Old Friends
When Stonewall UK was set on repealing all our antiquated anti-gay laws, Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry were first in the queue to help raise funds and argue the case for law reform. Nearly 30 years on we are reunited. We all three were in John Schlesinger’s masterly Cold Comfort Farm and now here we …
“Frank and Percy” / Old Friends: New Movie
What made filming Frank & Percy especially enjoyable was working with a cast of old friends. ROGER ALLAM, I first acted with 20 years ago, when he played the hilariously wicked Abbanazar and I was Aladdin’s widowed mother in the Old Vic pantomime. Our director was my long-time collaborator SEAN MATHIAS, who has now happily united …