[rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] ROVE CHATS TO ALAN BROUGH (ROVE 1999) Rove : It's time to introduce our first guest ever on this show. New Zealands' loss is our gain I guess. He's a very funny man. A fine actor. Currently appearing in "Siam Sunset". Will you please welcome the wonderful Alan Brough....How are you? Alan : I'm excellent. How are you? ROVE : I am magnificent... Alan : Excellent, it's all going really nicely. ROVE : You think so ? Alan : I think so...I'm loving it... ROVE : The whole camera thing, was that alright ? Alan :Yeah, that looked very planned... ROVE :Oh good. Alan : Yeah... ROVE : Now, the film, Siam Sunset - for those of us who havn't seen it and for shame may I just say up the top, tell us what it's about...Basically, the way I get it, it stars you, there's a Pommie guy in it and a lot of people on a bus.... Alan : Well, yeah...that's pretty much it really and that's how they sold it and I think because of that it's going very well. The Pommie guy you speak of, Linus Roach - who plays Perry comes across from England after his wife dies to have a holiday in beautiful Australia and gets trapped on a bus with a lot of freaks and we tour around and there's various accidents and someone may or may not die....several people may or may not die....don't want to give anything away of course and then everything turns out quite well in the end. ROVE : Awwwwwww... Alan : There's lots of other stuff inbetween there like hijinks and stuff... ROVE : And a lot of crazy stuff that happens with the cast and I was actually amazed at the end of the film, everyone dies. I just couldn't believe that. Alan : I know...well they edited it differently than we all thought. In the version that I saw, we were all alive. Everyone was going , there's something wrong with the end... ROVE : I never would have picked the butler... Alan : Because there wasn't a butler in it initially, so that was a shock to us as well....we got to the end and we thought...the butler hasn't been in it alot and then it's just the butchering scene and it was like ahhhhh...that's why he's there, cause he never got us a drink or nothin'... ROVE : Oh well, serves him right...now we atually have a clip of the film...do you believe that? Alan : fantastic... ROVE : So professional...Alan Brough in "Siam Sunset"...lets have a look........***************...I love a movie with hysterical women in it... Alan : Oh yeah... ROVE : Now this film recently was screened at Cannes and it won and it won the "Rail Djor" (?!) prize...is that right? Alan : Yeah, no one knew about the Rail Djor prize...till we won it...a golden rail...now this could only happen in France...because only in France would railway unions have film societies. ROVE : Let me get this straight...this is the award that is given by the Railway Union for best film ? Alan : To the best of my knowledge, this is what happens...100 blokes, probably called Darren and stuff, like that, you know, go to...100 blokes from the Railway workers Union Film Society go to Cannes, watch as many films as they want - cause there's a lot of them on - four to five hundred...so these guys are working hard seeing all these films and then they pick their favourite film...and their favourite film is awarded in a small ceremony involving Thomas The Tank Engine and the award Le Thomas the tank engine, I believe...and it's a piece of golden railway track that they have in France... ROVE : Oh they're everywhere! Alan : I know... Blinding sometimes - if the light glints up the wrong way, you can have a car accident... ROVE : ...and, how does it make you feel, actually winning an award ? To me that would be more prestigious than anything else - coming from the railway people... Alan : When we first found out, we just thought it was a joke because the producer said...oh I was talking to the producer and he said we'd won this award and I said...what award was this, cause at Cannes you think it's award central there because they just make up awards...If they like a film enough, someone will go, "Well, we could make up an award!"...and so he said..."We won the Rail Djor"...and I said..."Right, you're just pullin' my leg aint' ya?"...It bombed,everybody hated it - no railway workers LOVE it ! ROVE : Was that the target audience when they first came up with the idea? Alan :Yeah, pretty much...well bus workers really...it was originally going to be set on a train...basically anyone who works on largish things that move...we're going for those people who ride whales...although it might seem like a minority audience initially... ROVE : It's an untapped market you see... Alan : It certainly is... ROVE : Now, one thing I really am intrigued about...Is it true that you actually filmed a sex scene for this film and it ended up on the cutting room floor? Alan : Exactly...to look at me you would immediately think...well...9 and a half weeks - where was he? Instead of Mickey Rourke with the whole money trail thing...but yeah...what happened was we filmed myself and Rebecca Hobbs...she was one of the hysterical women...we had to film a sex scene, and we had sex on the bonnet of a car...cause it was taken from our own personal experience and I thought...that's the first place I suggested and everyone seemed happy with that, so...a bed - it's so odd don't you think? ROVE : Oh, everyone's done a bed... Alan : I know, I know...So we, basically...it was right near the end of the day and they said...right...so you get a bit nervous...I mean, I get nervous enough about normal sex let alone when it's being filmed...and not just for to sell on the internet and stuff...and so, allegedy...so we're on there and we're basically half naked and having sex and they were filming no sound...they were recording no sound so that the director could instrct us...because, now we're grown adults, but he clearly looked at us and thought phhhhr...Alan Brough dosn't know a lot...so we're there on the bonnet of the car, sort of like...I'm up against the bonnet of the car, like this you know... ROVE : would you like... Alan : Yeah, I could demonstrate..I'll sit on here...and if you could just like straddle me like this, that'd be really good... ROVE : (he does this and then says...) Why do I get the feeling that this is going to end up on a promo somewhere? ALAN : So, I'm here and Rebeccas' like there and we're like doing whtever you do...I'm a virgin alright...so, I mean, the directors just over there and he's going, "Ok, now kiss her on the neck"...and I'm going...and we're trying to get it..."Now touch her brests" and stuff like this, and I just stopped at one point and said..."Can you shut up ? I'm trying to have sex here for gawds sake, and then I looked around and there's 80 people and they had a crane shot as well...so the cameras coming in on a crane, and there's the director of photography and the director sitting ther right up close to us and he's going "Now can you lick the side of her neck?" and I'm going..."No, I can't actually, can you keep that thing away from me?" ROVE : So it was just like real sex and someone was telling you what to do the whole time ? Alan : Yeah, exactly, but I mean, the thing is...the two things that I would like to talk about it is, that firstly, they didn't use it and I thought that was a blessing in disguise really, because, you know , I don't want to see myself having sex on it...because the first time I was on an enormous screen, and I don't want to see myself in the first place - let alone with nothing on...my mother was with me and she would have gone "Oh no!"...there would have had to be a talk afterwards...she would have explained some things to me and I would have said..."ooh...that's what it was about...I was just following orders...and I would have got out of that whole thing, but also...if you are nervous about actual sex, go and get yourself filmed having sex because then normal stuff will just have no problems for you ever again...It's really nervewracking... ROVE : Now it's just a walk in the park... Alan : It certainly is...unless you havn't tried that as well, then give it a go...well it could be in a park, in a cemetry...I'm not willing to give too much away here though... ROVE : Fair enough...but "Siam Sunset" is currently playing around the country as we speak... Alan : It is...um year as we speak...I'm sure there's a late session on... ROVE : As we speak right now, I'm sure there's a session on...thank you very much, Alan Brough. [rove home] [rove episode guide] [rove transcripts] [rove/pete/corinne/dave pics] |
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