Richard E. Grant on filming 'Spice World,' the Spice Girls’ improv skills, and all the costumes he kept
“I have some actor friends who took themselves very seriously and were very disdainful of my participation in Spice World.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by Columbia Pictures You could describe 1997’s Spice World as a movie about five young pop stars fighting to assert their autonomy in the face of a music industry that treats them like plastic playthings and a tabloid press that’s determined to tear them apart.
Maybe it’s because Sporty Spice has joked that performing with the group is not unlike performing with a bunch of drag queens, but there was something about seeing you in a campy, music-driven movie like Everybody’s Talking About Jamie that made me want to revisit you in Spice World, and I wonder if you felt that at all.
The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night is frequently referenced as the precursor to a movie like Spice World. The former came out when you were roughly the same age your daughter was when the latter came out. Did that help you understand the group’s popularity and a movie project like this? And the producers were absolutely thrilled because, on the first day, each of us had huge Winnebagos with a living room and just about every modern thing that a Tom Cruise Winnebago could have. And they said, “We feel lonely in here; we want to be with each other.” I certainly didn’t give mine up — it’s the biggest one I’d ever had in my career — but they all insisted on joining up.
I knew that my role in it was to basically be somebody trying to herd cats, trying to maintain control where control was the last thing on anybody’s mind. So that was my overriding impression. Because of the A Hard Day’s Night film, I knew that narrative wasn’t the strongest point of it.
Elton John came in Storm Troopering. He’s born with the IMPATIENT button pressed firmly down, so you have to get Sir Elton very quickly or he’s gone before you can blink. I’m trying to think who else …Yes! And Meat Loaf on the bus. Meat Loaf was so friendly. I thought he was going to be in another dimension of … I don’t know what I expected, really, but I didn’t expect this really friendly guy to be there.They just said, “Be as bossy and extreme and manic as you like.
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