— capped an unlikely journey from low-budget British comedy to one of the most beloved properties of the 1990s.launched a Broadway musical and a hit play that ran in London's West End from 2014 until the novel coronavirus pandemic forced its theater to shutter last year. It all began when Italian producer Uberto Pasolini approached screenwriter Simon Beaufoy with an idea."He was fascinated by the idea of male strippers," recalls Beaufoy, 54.
It was Beaufoy's idea to set the tale in Sheffield, England, a Northern steel town that had fallen on tough times."The two things together worked really well," he says. The story centers on laid-off steelworker Gaz , who, stressed over child support payments, dreams up a burlesque show featuring a chorus line of regular blokes. What do they have over the chiseled Adonises of Chippendales? The fact that they go"full monty," i.e., show full-frontal nudity.
"The delight of it is that these were not going to be attractive men," says Beaufoy."They were big, small, everything wrong with them — just like everything wrong with you or me. They were people with frailties who were going to do something incredibly brave at the end of the film." And they did: In the climactic final striptease, the extras in the crowd were not told what to expect at the end of the boys' routine set to"You Can Leave Your Hat On.
Says Beaufoy:"The cameras were trained on the audience for that last shot. You got their genuine looks of surprise, delight and horror." This story first appeared in a January stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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