{"id":33580,"date":"2023-06-08T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1841827"},"modified":"2023-06-08T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:40:00","slug":"robert-carlyle-admits-hesitation-about-revisiting-the-full-monty","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/robert-carlyle-admits-hesitation-about-revisiting-the-full-monty\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Carlyle admits \u201chesitation\u201d about revisiting The Full Monty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The classic film is getting a follow-up in the form of a new Disney Plus series. <\/p>

By Morgan Jeffery\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 08 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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More than two decades since they strutted their stuff on the stage of a Sheffield nightclub, the Full Monty gang are back \u2013 with the majority of the original cast reprising their film roles for a new Disney Plus series.<\/p>\n

The 1997 film, written by Simon Beaufoy, followed the exploits of six unemployed men who put on a male striptease act to raise some cash \u2013 lauded by critics, it won the BAFTA for Best Film and also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. It was a box office hit too, becoming the highest-grossing British film of all time.<\/p>\n

In the age of the \u201clegacy sequel\u201d, a follow-up might seem like a no-brainer, but speaking at a BFI screening of the first two episodes, Robert Carlyle \u2013 returning as charismatic chancer Gaz \u2013 admitted he had some initial reservations about revisiting The Full Monty<\/a>.<\/p>

He explained: \u201cThere is a certain amount of hesitation about it, because you don\u2019t want to do anything that\u2019s in any way going to downgrade the memory of the film, so at first you\u2019re like\u2026 \u2018Are you sure about this?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was through conversations with Simon and then eventually looking at the scripts and saying, \u2018I can see what this is, he\u2019s taken it on and it\u2019s 25 years later\u2026 that was then, this is now.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave (Mark Addy) in The Full Monty.<\/span><\/figcaption> Ben Blackall\/FX<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

The eight-part series, Carlyle insisted, is \u201cnot trying to remake The Full Monty\u201d \u2013 for one thing, the old gang won\u2019t be getting their kit off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an entirely different thing. So once you\u2019re reading it, all these reservations were soon put to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Addy (Dave), Tom Wilkinson (Gerald), Steve Huison (Lomper), Paul Barber (Horse), Lesley Sharp (Jean), William Snape (Nathan) and more cast members from the original join Carlyle in the sequel series.<\/p>\n