Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge talk about LEXX

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    Some insightful info from two guest stars of one of the new LEXX episodes ‘P3X’

    Craig Charles on Halifax

    …. “And now here I am, standing on the corner of Barrington and Brunswick waiting for my ride. I get picked up on this corner every day by a four wheel drive pick-up truck that looks like a snow plough has been attached to the front. The huge shovel clears the snow out of the way as we make the slow tedious journey to the studio were I’m filming an episode of LEXX, the Canadian science fiction series which goes out on Sky 1 over here.

    Today my ride is late, very late and I’m wondering if it’s ever going to come at all because last night they had the heaviest recorded snowfall since records began. I can’t ring up and find out if the roads are completely impassable because all the lines are down, I’ve tried to use the fax in my room and that was unsuccessful. Jackie my beloved darling wife packed my bag for this trip and forgot to pack my coat. My nose is red, my lips are so chapped I have to use special make up on set, I can’t feel my fingers, I can’t feel my toes and for the first time in my life I’m wishing the blood running through my veins was a touch less West Indian.

    On a cold day when you breathe out you produce a cloud of white condensation because your breath is warm and moist. I wonder about what happens when you fart, because waiting on this corner I let a sly one go and worry if the girl across the street can see a dense white cloud blasting out of the backof my slacks……

    …. I’m about to play the English warden of a Texas jail in the weirdest SF show of all time. It’s filmed in the coldest place I’ve ever been to, containing scenes where I’m supposed to be in Arizona, which we have to film in the studio in front of a green screen so they can paint the desert in afterwards because going to Arizona would probably be too expensive and ignoring the fact that I’d defiantly enjoy the Arizonan weather a million times more.” …..

    Hattie Hayridge and Craig Charles talk about their LEXX Experience

    Speaking to http://www.reddwarf.co.uk, Hattie, who plays a character called Heidi, a Texan prison warden, with Craig Charles as her husband in the episode P3X said,It was good because I’d never acted with him that way before I was always in my separate bit.

    Craig Charles, “I think Hattie was offered the part originally, and once she’d said yes to it, they thought they’d make it sort of a Red Dwarf-y tie-in. Hattie plays this Texan – a cross between Jerry Hall and Daphne from A Streetcar Named Desire – and I play this English governor in a Texan jail. I’m the warden, she’s my sub-warden and my wife. We’ve got this daughter who is completely insane…

    Craig Charles,”Lexx is like S&M meets science fiction It’s a very sexy show – I felt like a dirty old man half the time. During the filming, sometimes I just thought, ‘I hope my wife doesn’t see this’.

    Hattie Hayridge, “They said it was the most risqué one they’d done – half-naked men holed up in dungeons. Naked women in the showers in the women’s prison…

    Hattie Hayridge, “The costume woman said, ‘Oh, you’re much thinner than I thought you’d be. Maybe we’ll change it when you get over here…‘ She was imagining a great big, fat Texan! I was meant to be wearing trousers and a shirt – it was a little bit Cell Block H-y. But when we got there, me and the make-up women and the costume women got together, all girly, and made her a bit more Dolly Parton! It’s still prison uniform, but I wear a shirt that’s two sizes too small and a really short skirt. They curled my hair up – just a few curls, my own hair.

    Craig Charles, “Hattie is horrible in it! She’s horrible – the wife from hell. She’s really mean – the wife from hell! She constantly insults me.

    Hattie Hayridge, “It’s a marriage not made in heaven. We were thinking, ‘Where would we have met?‘ Because I’d obviously never been out of Texas. He must have been passing through when we met, and married.

    Craig Charles, “Halifax, Nova Scotia – the coldest place I’ve ever been, It was like minus 20 over there! They had the worst recorded level of snowfall since records began while we were over there. It was great – like a big winter wonderland.

    Craig Charles, “All the cast are really nice. Michael McManus is a nice fella. Didn’t really socialise with the girl who plays Zev. She’s got remarkable lips. They can’t be real! Apparently one of the cameramen was saying that sometimes they cast shadows!

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    [This message has been edited by SadGeezer (edited April 15, 2001).]

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