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Gemma Jones Ivy as Ivy. Steven Mackintosh Stanley as Stanley. Tom Bennett Fred as Fred. Ross Farrelly Cyril as Cyril. That would set Mum off. I got the feeling they were staying together because of me, which just made things more miserable.
The best way to escape it was to shut myself in my bedroom with my record collection and my comics, and drift off into an imaginary world, fantasising that I was Little Richard or Ray Charles or Jerry Lee Lewis.
I made my peace with it all years ago. They divorced when I was 13, both remarried, which I was happy about, although my relationship with both of them was always tricky. And the story of how I ended up in a cinema, crying my eyes out at the sight of my family 60 years ago, is a long and convoluted one. And it begins, naturally enough, with a naked transgender woman with sparks flying out of her vagina. The trans woman was Amanda Lepore, a model, singer and performance artist.
An actor was dressed as me in full 70s stage outfit sticking his head in a gas oven, homoerotic angels figure-skating with giant teddy bears and Amanda Lepore, naked, in an electric chair, with sparks flying out of her vagina. But it also got me thinking.
I really had staged a completely ridiculous suicide bid that involved sticking my head in a gas oven. If you were going to make a film about me, that would be the way to do it. Nevertheless, the idea of making a film about my life still seemed like a big IF.
Amazingly, the director Hal Ashby offered me the male lead in Harold and Maude in , but I turned it down: I loved the script, but it seemed like the wrong thing to do at the time. I initially turned that down, too. They contacted Rod Stewart and I told him to turn it down as well. You did that on purpose! But that began to change a little the older I got, and I really started to approach things in a different way when I had children. I became less conscious about keeping it all to myself. I liked the idea of them having a film and an autobiography, where I was honest.
It was brilliant. It had moments that were pure fantasy and moments that were really hard-hitting, no punches pulled, like Tantrums and Tiaras , the documentary my husband David made about me not long after we met.
Lots of people told me I was insane to allow that documentary to be released, but I loved it, because it was truthful.
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