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It\u2019s a morbid coincidence that I\u2019m speaking to Stephen Curry about his role as King Arthur in Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot the day after the death of the actor who originated it<\/a>, Tim Curry (no relation).<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, mate, it\u2019s Dolly Parton one day, Tim Curry the next. It\u2019s a terrible year for sad losses,\u201d he says from his home in the Macedon Ranges. \u201cHe\u2019s a master and one of my all-time heroes. I\u2019ve tried to find video [of his Spamalot performance] but there\u2019s no real footage, so I guess I\u2019ll have to just make it up myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AtAt 50, Stephen Curry is making his musical theatre debut in Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot.Eugene Hyland<\/p>\n

Despite boasting more than 80 film and TV credits dating back to the early \u201990s, the role marks Curry\u2019s first foray into musical theatre. \u201cIt sure is,\u201d he says, laughing. \u201cAt age 50, little Stephen Curry is going to make his musical theatre debut. I mean, I grew up doing theatre as a kid but no one ever paid me for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The role comes amid a purple patch for Curry. Last October, with his brother Bernard, he won The Amazing Race Australia\u2019s celebrity edition (despite his dodgy knees), and this year he\u2019s been filming the sci-fi thriller Starman in Sydney with Oscar winner Brendan Fraser.<\/p>\n

But one place you won\u2019t find him? In the much-anticipated stage adaptation<\/a> of the film that made him a local star, The Castle. \u201cI\u2019ve had, I reckon, 12 people in the last three weeks ask me if I\u2019m playing Dale Kerrigan in the stage play and my response has been, \u2018I have range but I don\u2019t think I can play a 16-year-old any more\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worst habit?
I never know where my car keys are. I can tell you all the names of the Bali Nine but even right now I don\u2019t know where my keys are. I live out in the bush, mate. If I can\u2019t find my car keys, I\u2019m stitched. My wife even bought me one of those things you put on your key ring that when you whistle it beeps, but that didn\u2019t work because I put them somewhere I couldn\u2019t hear the beeping.<\/p>\n

\"CurryCurry (front centre) as Dale Kerrigan in The Castle, the role that made him a local star 30 years ago. <\/p>\n

Greatest fear?
Having to get a real job. I started acting from a young age but the acting work dried up for a bit when I was 18, so I worked in a bakery for six months. I wasn\u2019t good at it. I realised that real jobs \u2013 and when I say \u201creal jobs\u201d, I mean a job that isn\u2019t one you spring out of bed and get excited about doing \u2013 aren\u2019t for me. I greatly admire people who do them but I hope to god I can finish my working life doing what I love.<\/p>\n

My parents and teachers always advised me to get something to fall back on but I ignored them. Now that I\u2019m 50 and I\u2019ve got the knees and the back of a 90-year-old retired librarian, I feel like there aren\u2019t a lot of jobs left for me. Certainly not physical jobs. Singing and dancing on stage is a fairly physical job but it doesn\u2019t feel like a real job. It feels like playing dress-ups.<\/p>\n

The line that has stayed with you?
It\u2019s a line I said on-screen 30 years ago: \u201cDad, I dug another hole\u201d. And the reason it\u2019s stuck with me is because every single day, for 30 years, I have heard it repeated back to me as \u201cDad, I dug a hole\u201d, from either a passing bus or a person at a bus stop or a person in a pub, and every single person thinks they\u2019re the first to think of it. I\u2019ve probably done 100 jobs since then but I will never live that down.<\/p>\n

At the time I thought it was so innocuous. But apparently it is something that people feel the need to repeat back to me every single day. It\u2019ll probably be on my tombstone. Spike Milligan has \u201cI told you I was ill\u201d, and mine will be \u201cDad, I dug a hole\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Biggest regret?
I\u2019ve made plenty of mistakes but I have no regrets. My parents raised me to appreciate life for everything it has. I\u2019m very blessed. I\u2019ve been raised by a great family, I am raising some pretty amazing kids, and my wife is a spectacular human. I think regrets just slow you down.<\/p>\n

Tell us about your turning point.
I was five years old and I went to see my sister and my oldest brother on stage at the Kew High School Theatre in a performance of The Hobbit, and I was so jealous and so enamoured by the sights and sounds and smells of it that I decided then and there that all I ever wanted to do was be an actor.<\/p>\n

When I was nine I was in the Toorak Players Children\u2019s Workshop, run by the incredible Ed Bailey and Maureen Bailey, and I was Happy Villager #3 in Man of Steel and my brother was the Man of Steel. I had one line, which was one word: \u201cfantabulous\u201d. I ran it different ways, tried so many different inflections on \u201cfantabulous\u201d. But at the end of the show, when I walked out to what I thought would be my adoring masses, my father turned to me and said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I wasn\u2019t deterred because my sister Margaret came up and whispered in my ear, \u201cYou were the best.\u201d She did it every time I came offstage. It wasn\u2019t until many years later that I found out she actually said that to all the siblings every time we came offstage.<\/p>\n

My kids are 14 and 12 now and they\u2019re very different. My youngest, Beau, is the same as me; he\u2019s wanted to be an actor since he could talk. My oldest, Arlo, would rather stick needles in his eyeballs than be on a stage, so he\u2019s going to have a real job, which will be great. He\u2019ll be the real grown-up, and Beau and I will be prancing around in other people\u2019s clothes for a job.<\/p>\n

The artwork or song you wish was yours?
Pink Floyd\u2019s song Time from The Dark Side of the Moon. It is the single greatest rock song ever written. I got into Pink Floyd young. Someone at school told me that if you wait for the [Cowardly] Lion\u2019s third roar when you\u2019re watching The Wizard of Oz and then you start up The Dark Side of the Moon, it all lines up. I think it\u2019s absolute rubbish, made up by someone who was smoking dried-out banana peels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you could time-travel, where would you go?
I\u2019d go back to good ol\u2019 1955. I would take a DeLorean and I would hope to god that my mother didn\u2019t find me attractive and try to hit on me. I saw Back to the Future when I was nine, and my brother Bernie and I decided we were never going to see a better film. I reckon I\u2019ve seen it 100 times and still to this day I get the same joy I got at the Balwyn Cinema in 1985 watching that masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Spamalot is at Melbourne\u2019s Athenaeum Theatre from September 16, the Event Centre at The Star Sydney from October 15-18, and western Sydney\u2019s Coliseum Theatre from October 22-25.<\/p>\n

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