{"id":2113908,"date":"2025-10-24T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2113908"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:57:43","slug":"tim-curry-used-a-british-accent-in-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-after-an-encounter-with-a-stranger-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-curry-used-a-british-accent-in-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-after-an-encounter-with-a-stranger-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Curry Used a British Accent in \u2018The Rocky Horror Picture Show\u2019 After An Encounter With a Stranger \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1876px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Tim Curry<\/strong> rose to fame as the cheeky cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 musical comedy <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> \u2014 which just reached its 50th anniversary milestone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1727px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14189\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1717\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master.jpg 1717w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flashback_1484608473.jpg_master-1536x1144.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1717px) 100vw, 1717px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For this spoof of cheesy sci-fi and horror movies, Curry told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/21\/nx-s1-5334567\/tim-curry-remember-his-first-film-role-in-the-rocky-horror-picture-show#:~:text=CURRY:%20And%20that%2C%20of%20course,some%20fishnet%20tights%20thrown%20in.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>NPR<\/em><\/a> he was first going to use a German accent but changed his mind after overhearing the posh, regal British accent of some lady on a bus he was riding.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s <strong>Susan Sarandon<\/strong> in an early role as a na\u00efve young woman who gets a swift education when her car breaks down outside Dr. Frank-N-Furter\u2019s castle.<\/p>\n<\/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 globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th Century Fox Tim Curry rose to fame as the cheeky cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 musical comedy The Rocky Horror Picture Show \u2014 which just reached its 50th anniversary milestone. 20th Century Fox For this spoof of cheesy sci-fi and horror movies, Curry told NPR he was first going to use 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