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 "The concert stuff was where I really got my rocks off. They couldn't say 'Be here', 'Be over there'. I said, 'Just light the stage because I don't know where I'm gonna be', and I lost the plot completely. I dived into the audience just after pulling everything out again. Todd [Haynes, the director] said, 'There's a field, an open-air concert, and it's full of hippies.' I come on doing all this stuff and they boo me and tell me to get off. And he said just moon them at the end of TV Eye... so I started to pull my willy about and told them to fuck off. It came out of nowhere and there was a dead silence after he said, 'Cut!' But I had to do it again and again all night long from all different angles, so he must have liked it." --Ewan McGregor-- "I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way. Itīs what I wanted the film to be; I wanted the very language of Velvet Goldmine to be something like that. Itīs music that is so full of references and little nods and winks to other artists -from Noel Coward to Warhol to literary references, mythological references, whatever- excessively presented, posed, and cofied, with the record albums, the clothes, and the hair. And yet the music is ultimately, despite all of that, for no good reason, incredibly moving." --Todd Haynes-- "Velvet Goldmine is a valentine to the sounds and images that erupted in and around London in the early 1970's: Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed - and the extraordinary inversions they imposed on our notions of the performance, sexuality and identity. Glam rock was the product of the last truly progressive decade we've seen in the West - a climate of great possibility and openness - that resulted in important social movements, amazing cinema, and some fantastic music. And because glam rock would challenge with style, and wit, any leaning toward 'the natural' in society, drawing heavily as it did from underground gay culture, the film commemorates Oscar Wilde as the original glam rocker, the one who knew to speak the truth only through the most exquisite of lies." --Todd Haynes-- "Everybody would think that my apprehension would be about these sex scenes, that I have to snog Ewan. That's the last thing I'm worried about. It's actually a perk -- you know, he's a very good-looking boy." --Jonathan Rhys Meyers-- "I took it like a man. He was really tender, very caring. He hugged me afterward. But he never writes. He never calls. Goddamn him! Actually, it was a freezing night when we were doing the scene, and it was far less explicit than Ewan and myself thought it was going to be. The camera was on another roof looking across at us. The only thing Todd did was whisper, 'Cut,' rather than shouting it, so that Ewan and I couldn't hear. We were going at it for ages. Then Ewan sort of turned his head and realized, 'Hey, the camera's not f--king pointed at us anymore!' So, I sort of turned my head. We stop, and the whole crew is just sitting there. They'd cut ages ago!" --Christian Bale, on filming the sex scene with Ewan McGregor--
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