Hugo Weaving:
Queer Street 2
Video Interview for
Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert
Hugo Weaving
and Guy Pearce Transcription courtesy of hard work
by Diane at the Hugo
Weaving Yahoo! group
The interviewer is a young
woman, the place is GAY club in London, the atmosphere is lighthearted
(both actors have been drinking bottles of beer which they still
hold).
Interviewer to Guy: "Queen
of the Desert" what do you do?
Guy: We dress up in women's
clothes ,drive a big bus and mouth the words to other people's songs.
Int: sounds perverse to me
(turns to Hugo)What do you do?
Hugo: Much the same thing,
I dress up as an emu at one stage and a lizard at another stage.
Int: Sounds like lots of
men dressed up as women. Tell me- what did you get out of it?
Hugo: Oh it's very
erotic!
Guy: What?
Int: What did you get out
of it?
Guy: Oh it was a whole new
experience. I think to let yourself express yourself in a completely different
way like a female ~ creative .
Int:So destroy the illusion
of these guys that are watching - are you or are you not?
Guy; I have to say that I'm
not.
Int: But why?
Guy: Why am I straight?
Int: You said THE word!
Guy: I said THE word ,I'm
sorry! Why am I? I don't know I just wanna be I suppose.
Int;(turns to Hugo)What about
you?
[Hugo raises his hand and
displays his ring]
Int: That's like sign language
for a Joan Armatrading song which meansmy lips are sealed.
Hugo [leans forward eyes
half closed] Says what?
Int: Watch it my lips are
sealed.
Hugo; My lips are sealed
do you think that's what it means?
Int; Does it?
Hugo: No it just means I
have a ring on my finger.
Int: which means what?
Hugo; It means I'm sort of
married but not really.
Int;But this is ambiguous!
Hugo; It IS ambiguous.
Int; No be ambiguous.
Hugo; Be ambiguous, you want
me to be ambiguous? What about?
Int;Whatever.
Hugo ;This conversation's
absolutely ridiculous!
Int;So?
[Hugo gives Mitzi type laugh]
Interviewer( looks at Hugo
) They briefed me ,they said "silly" what can I tell you ,they said "silly"
Int; (to Guy) Have you ever
ben shagged by a Miss Piggy?
Guy; I took her on a date
once and she said to me "We're never going to do this on a first date"
and unfortunately I never got on to her again so sadly no we never got
as far as a second date.
Int; dreadful I do think
that she said that to me first time.(Turns to Hugo)What about you and Kermit?
Hugo; Oh Kermit, Kermit
and I are very good friends.
Int;friends or FRIENDS
Hugo; Just friends,just friends
with a small "f" but he doesn't have one.
Int; Really?
Hugo; I know he wears
Kermit Klein jeans but he doesn't have one underneath them, Undies
I mean undies!
Int;Kermit has no undies
how can I cope? |
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