Naturally, Blane remarked that Curry took to the corset "like a duck to water. Cinema can be a fickle thing-- while you'd expect film sets to be glamorous affairs, with every possible amenity available to the actors, you would occasionally be very wrong. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was no picnic to make, as the cast and crew had to endure unheated sets while filming scenes in pools. This might not sound like a big deal, but it was for Susan Sarandon, who fell ill during production.
The filmmakers had nothing but kind words for her after her gritty effort to push through with the work, as they mentioned that she was literally "shaking with fever" on set but kept on going in spite of that. Sometimes you've just gotta improvise when you're making a film. While the creative team behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show might have thought they had the perfect casting when they got Peter Hinwood to play the character of Rocky Horror, they changed their minds when they found out he was a model who had zero acting experience.
Rocky Horror originally had dialogue in the film, but after watching Hinwood act, Sharman and O'Brien elected to remove all his speaking parts. Another singer dubbed over the character's singing parts, so Hinwood's voice never actually shows up in the film. While it may not have been the most welcoming place for the film crew in at the time, it had no heating and few bathrooms , it's doing a better job of that nowadays.
Oakley Court is now a ritzy hotel, allowing guests to stay in the location that was the home to many of their favorite spooky movies from days gone by. Nowadays, of course, the hotel advertises its proximity to LEGOLAND more than it does its connection to film history, but we'd like to think there are still a few Rocky Horror fans who make the trip. Pierre LaRoche was one of the creative forces behind David Bowie's now-iconic Ziggy Stardust look, but that wasn't the only influential job the makeup artist held.
LaRoche was also the person film producers turned to when they wanted a makeup redesign for the characters in Rocky Horror. While Sue Blane gets the lion's share of the credit for the character designs in the film, we shouldn't forget that it was Pierre LaRoche who actually came up with the makeup designs. Though the make-up is a touch more subtle than costumes, it's still one of the main reasons the visuals of the film are so fun to watch.
Singer and occasional actor Meat Loaf has a memorable turn in Rocky Horror as Eddie, the delivery boy and partial brain donor to Rocky, who is tragically stabbed by Frank N. Eddie gets a fun entrance, bursting out of a freezer on a motorcycle, but the problem is that Meat Loaf didn't actually ride that motorcycle.
Aside from a few less dangerous wide shots, Meat Loaf left the actual driving to a stunt man as he says he didn't feel comfortable doing anything risky on it. For the close-up shots that needed to look like Eddie was on the motorcycle, the crew rigged up a wheelchair for Meat Loaf to ride. That way, safety didn't need to be sacrificed. Or that was the theory, anyway, as the wheelchair didn't turn out to be that safe anyway. This is perhaps reflected best by the apparently high number of on-set injuries that occurred-- even ignoring the on-set illnesses, including Sarandon's.
In the same interview , Meat Loaf describes an incident that happened while he was sitting in his wheelchair, where it fell off a ramp on the set, shattered a camera, caused a few cuts on Meat Loaf's face and arm, and snapped a stand-in's leg in two.
While some efforts were made for safety, injuries ran rampant even with the wheelchair. One of the single most famous props in all of Rocky Horror is the skeleton clock; a coffin that has a clock face set on the front. Once there, the team asked her to start reading for the part, and she reluctantly agreed, despite her fear of singing in front of people. Needless to say, when she got the role, she had to get over that fear pretty quickly. Sarandon's fear of singing was made even worse, however, due to conditions on the set.
Oakley Court, which was used as Frank-N-Furter's castle, had no roof and no heat. It stands near London, England, and the film was shot in the middle of winter, so it was extremely cold on set.
Speaking with The Guardian , Sarandon explained that she caught pneumonia almost immediately, and she claims the entire cast and crew was wet and cold for the entire shoot. They can all laugh about it now, but it sounds like filming Rocky Horror was miserable. Like most musicals, Rocky Horror has the standouts that nearly everyone knows, like "Time Warp. The song "Once in a While" seems to fit into that final category, as even the filmmakers decided not to include it in the final cut of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , despite the fact that they filmed and recorded it.
The song is still generally performed during the stage show. Brad sings it when he learns that his new wife, Janet, has cheated on him with Dr. He's sad and upset about it, despite the fact that he also just cheated on her with Dr. Maybe there would be no hard feelings if they had just coordinated their timing a little better. Many Rocky Horror soundtrack albums contain the song, but honestly, it's just not that catchy. Give us "Sweet Transvestite" any day.
The original stage show, according to writer Richard O'Brien via The Guardian , was only about 40 minutes long. He and director Jim Sharman only planned on performing the show for a few weeks to a tiny audience, so they didn't focus too much on it. However, once rehearsals got going, the script took on a life of its own. They started having more and more fun with it, and they turned it from a short performance into a full-length musical.
O'Brien decided that every good musical needs a dance number, so he whipped up "Time Warp" to help introduce the audience to the dramatic change in tone that comes when Brad and Janet enter the castle.
We often use the term "Easter egg" to describe hidden things or clever winks to audiences that are buried away in movies, video games, and television. The rumor is that the cast and crew had an Easter egg hunt on the set one day, but a few of the eggs were hidden a little too well.
They weren't located, and when shooting resumed, the eggs were still out there. Regardless of whether or not that particular tale is true, eagle-eyed viewers have spotted a few eggs in various scenes of the film. Jump to: navigation , search. Alternate take of The Lips, cropped to look like Jaws movie poster Category : Characters. Frank-N-Furter Tim Curry. The scene was filmed but excised from the final cut. Sarandon had a few acting credits under her belt when she took the role of prim, innocent Janet, but Rocky Horror was her first gig in a musical.
To complicate matters, filming in the rain gave her pneumonia. Bostwick is probably better remembered today for his role on Spin City , but he had a musical theater background even before Rocky Horror. In fact, he originated the role of Danny Zuko in the Broadway version of Grease. However, most references to the clock are solely couched in the context of Rocky Horror trivia, so it likely the story is just that — but not a bad one to share, so long as you mention its dubious origins.
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