I'm going to see the play but have never seen the movie. Do you think I should go in blind to experience the character as Rob interprets him, or watch the original first?
Ooooooooh, yikes. That is such a tough call. I’m trying not to expire from jealousy as I try to focus and ask you…
Are you a person who likes reading the book before the movie? Because in this particular movie’s case, it really is source material.
Myself, I’m dying to know how faithful it will be to the original. I keep assuming in my mind’s eye that it will be updated and set present-day, but that is based only on Robbie’s clothes in the picture. The movie was set in 1969.
I’m always glad to have read the book first so I have my own mental image that can live in tandem with an actor’s face. But then the potential for let-down can be bad. Ugh. And we’re not talking about a book here.
(Please report back with the actual words that the drug dealer speaks. There’s a whole section with the thickest accent I’ve ever heard and I have yet to parse it. I got mayyybe every third word. It has been bothering me for an eternity.)
A/N: This fic is now a year old! 🥳🎉 Anyone who is still reading it after all this time gets a coconut: 🥥 You may also be pleased to know that we are now on the downhill slope, so strap in mystery fans! 😘😘 I probably should have posted this in time for Day Five of @sheehalloween but I’m posting it today because I’m just not that bloody organised.
CW: Drugs of unknown provenance and potency. Naughty words. Use of Google Translate.
Snippet from Chapter 27 Phone:
This is the first morning he’s not suffered from either a stinking hangover, a drug-induced haze or the horrifying symptoms of withdrawal in… well, he can’t even really be sure how long.
All he knows is that he feels fantastic. Blood pumping on high. Lungs filled with scented air. Skin glowing with that post-coital glow. The only thing that could possibly put a dampener on this mood is… sitting in the corner with his arms folded across his chest scowling at Klaus like a recently neutered cat.
“I hope you’re proud of yourself,” says Ben.
“Well, it wasn’t my best performance, but I’d score it a solid eight out of ten,” replies Klaus, giving his belly a scratch. “You might want to avert your eyes, brother. I need a piss and I’m kinda au naturel under these sheets.”
Ben makes a disgusted noise as Klaus hobbles to his feet and hops to the bathroom.
“It isn’t going to work, you know,” Ben calls after him.
Klaus checks his gums and eyeballs in the huge bathroom mirror - all still present, nothing disgusting wedged in them, barely bleeding at all. Another success. “What isn’t going to work?”
“Your little escape plan. They’ll catch up to you sooner or later. And even if they don’t, are you really going to spend your whole life as a fugitive on the run?”
Klaus shrugs at his reflection, then lifts the lid on the toilet. “Beats being buttfucked in prison for the rest of my life,” he calls out over the sound of his stream.
“Don’t pretend like you wouldn’t love that.”
Klaus allows Ben a short chuckle at that. Touché, Ben. Touché.
Robert Sheehan has been cast in the play, Withnail and I. (Brain explodes, can barely see as I type.) As Withnail. (Just pops entire head off, never to be seen again.)
If you’ve ever seen the original movie, you are already screaming in joyful exuberance.
Rob will play the deranged one at left.
I swear, on everything, this could not be a better casting. The manic roller coaster of Withnail being the bad influence from hell is literally a Robert Sheehan dream role. Like possibly award-winning if he doesn’t bungle it.
Withnail is a force of chaos who electrifies every room he enters, with incredibly compelling charisma that guarantees he’ll get away with every insane thing he does. He drags his best friend into every risky, certain to fail, sketchy, and rent avoidant adventure. Lots and lots and lots of intoxication. The drug deal is piss-your-pants funny, as is the dishwashing scene. Dishwashing? Yes, dishwashing is sidesplittingly funny. Uncle Monty will have you pissing everyone’s pants.
This is Role of a Lifetime level shit for Robert Sheehan. Here’s hoping it moves to London and on to Broadway. (This character deserves a film franchise, Withnail is that addictive.)
2 of my Top 10 favorite movie characters of all time. (Left: Paul McGann as I; Right: Richard E Grant as Withnail.)
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