July 2011
25 posts
Gene Kelly as Serafin
This? This movie was my first exposure to Gene Kelly. YES, I even love the fake mustache. It’s FANTASTIC. The Pirate Ballet? Gene’s thighs are probably the most magnificent thing to EVER hit the big screen. Proof?
“I’ve got a very surreal moment actually, when I was discussing with Imelda Staunton (who played Professor Umbridge in the Order of the Phoenix), lovely woman, who plays that evil character so well but she’s so lovely; and we were talking about scrambled eggs, I don’t know why, but I pointed out that if you were in a rush, you wouldn’t condone it unless you were in a rush, but it is..possible to do scrambled eggs in the microwave. Imelda was repulsed by this, you know, she found the very concept of microwaved scrambled eggs disgusting. And she let me know [laughs]. And then, out of nowhere, swoops in Mr. Alan Rickman. And Alan glides, he doesn’t walk, he glides. And he did exactly that, from nowhere, just on my shoulder..in my defense! You know, he said [puts on voice] “They’re quite nice, actually.” And um, yeah, I suddenly had to take a step back because there was two of the finest British actors ever, Imelda Staunton and Alan Rickman, having a debate, an argument about scrambled eggs. And I just had to think “Is this my job?! Is this what I’m doing? It’s ridiculous.” But it’s moments like that you won’t forget that they’re just people, you know?”
—Matt Lewis (via barkingsparrows)
Reblog this if you listen to Counting Crows, I want to follow every single one of you.
and your favorite song by them.. I’m just curious… I shittin’ love this band and don’t want any frauds e-e
Another Horsedreamer’s Blues. I still get teary eyed when I hear that song.
