Aside from his appearance, Campbell, 72, can remember how determined the young singer was for Queen, who formed in 1970, to make it big in the music business.<\/p>\n
Although Campbell always told Mercury to be realistic about how hard it would be to top the charts, those words ultimately meant nothing to the Queen frontman.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cHe was always banging on about his band, trying to get a record deal. I told him, \u2018Freddie, it\u2019s a harsh world out there, hang on to the day job!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell landed her breakout role as groupie Columbia in 1975\u2019s The Rocky Horror Picture Show when she was spotted waitressing in a cafe near Hyde Park, London, by the musical comedy\u2019s writer Richard O\u2019Brien and director Jim Sharman.<\/p>\n
The movie sees a couple, Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), arrive at \u201csweet transvestite, transsexual Transylvanian\u201d Dr Frank-N-Furter\u2019s castle, where a party is held, and the mad scientist creates the titular muscle man Rock Horror (Peter Hinwood).<\/p>\n
Tim Curry, 79, played Dr Frank-N-Furter, whose memorable pouts and struts were styled on Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n
Jagger, 82, famously wanted the role and he tried to buy the film rights to cast himself, which Campbell thinks would have \u201ckilled it\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cJim Sharman didn\u2019t want rock stars. He wanted interesting, unusual people with street cred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Disney bought the rights to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 2019 as part of its acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the studio that produced and released the cult classic in 1975.<\/p>\n
Campbell flashed a boob to the camera as Columbia in the movie and Disney decided to erase her nipple to make it \u201cmore family-friendly\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThey invited Jim Sharman into the studio to edit it and make it more family-friendly. They didn\u2019t want many changes. But they asked him to erase my nipple!<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told them, \u2018I have no experience in erasing nipples.\u2019 They took it out anyway. But I can tell you that the fans were not happy. My nipple belonged in that film!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from his appearance, Campbell, 72, can remember how determined the young singer was for Queen, who formed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[36671,95,351,195231,15555,430,124,156,39275,195229,12632,410,8482,195232,195230,132520,111,139,69,90,3366,195233,8730,1305,2737,6110,3217,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-374200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-always","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-astonished","12":"tag-campbell","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-could","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-fame","17":"tag-freddie","18":"tag-friend","19":"tag-horror","20":"tag-huge","21":"tag-joking","22":"tag-mercurys","23":"tag-nell","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-on","28":"tag-queen","29":"tag-racket","30":"tag-rocky","31":"tag-show","32":"tag-star","33":"tag-teeth","34":"tag-tennis","35":"tag-through"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}