{"id":2009797,"date":"2025-09-09T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009797"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:47:15","slug":"tim-curry-thought-rocky-horror-show-was-end-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-curry-thought-rocky-horror-show-was-end-of-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Curry thought \u2018Rocky Horror Show\u2019 was end of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2FUntitled-2-copy-11.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Don\u2019t dream it, be it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a rare interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-turns-50-dont-dream-it-be-it\/\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>, Tim Curry, 79, went down memory lane about his iconic performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show,\u201d which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/03\/23\/how-rocky-horror-became-one-of-the-top-grossing-movie-musicals-ever\/\">celebrated its 50th anniversary<\/a> in August. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tim Curry in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tim Curry on CBS Mornings.  <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt died a death. It was a failure,\u201d he said, referring to how the 1975 cult classic musical comedy film initially had a tepid reception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curry, who currently lives with paralysis caused by a stroke, added that after the film seemed to flop, \u201cI was crushed\u2026I thought that it might well be [the end of my movie career]. But I was tougher than that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u201d soon picked up steam with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/13\/entertainment\/how-nyc-turned-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-into-a-cult-classic\/\">midnight showings in New York City<\/a> and became a cult hit, drawing audiences who dressed up and talked back to the screen. The film has been running continuously in theaters longer than any other movie in history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nell Campbell, Tim Curry and Patricia Quinn in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFor your first movie to run for 50 years is crazy,\u201d Curry said, referring to the flick\u2019s continued success.<\/p>\n<p>The horror musical movie follows a young couple, Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), whose car breaks down near a castle inhabited by strange beings such as the alien \u201ctransvestite\u201d Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Curry) and his mad scientist creation, Rocky (Peter Hinwood).<\/p>\n<p>Curry also played the role in the original 1973 London stage production before it was made into a film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, and Susan Sarandon in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tim Curry in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cMuppet Treasure Island\u201d actor\u2019s career stalled after his stroke left him wheelchair-bound, but he appeared in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/21\/entertainment\/tim-curry-taking-on-first-feature-film-role-in-14-years-with-stream\/\">his first feature film role in 14 years<\/a> with the 2024 movie \u201cStream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued doing some voice work after his health battle, including shows like \u201cYoung Justice\u201d and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/02\/star-wars-the-clone-wars-series-to-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had people who left [the film] thinking they would stay the stuff they had always wanted to say and did,\u201d Curry told CBS.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he thought \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u201d gave people permission to be who they really are, Curry said, \u201cI think so.\u201d He also added that he thinks the movie\u2019s message is \u201cbe who you want to be \u2014 and have the b\u2014s to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t dream it, be it.\u00a0 In a rare interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Tim Curry, 79, went down memory lane about his iconic performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show,\u201d which celebrated its 50th anniversary in August. Tim Curry in \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d \u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection Tim Curry on CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[367314,21741,345885,366020],"class_list":["post-2009797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-cult-classics","tag-entertainment","tag-musicals","tag-tim-curry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tim-Curry-thought-\u2018Rocky-Horror-Show-was-end-of-his.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}