{"id":750691,"date":"2026-08-26T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750691\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:58:08","slug":"luke-evans-says-there-will-only-be-one-tim-curry-following-actors-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750691\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Evans says &#8216;there will only be one Tim Curry&#8217;, following actor&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hollywood star Luke Evans has paid tribute to Tim Curry, who has died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yd92gkk7vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in film musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/a>. He first played the role on stage in 1973 before the film version two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans took on the role in the cult classic musical on Broadway, which concluded earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh star previously said a song from the musical helped launch his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a social media post, Evans shared a letter he wrote to Curry &#8220;with only three weeks left before I finally hang up the fishnets and heels&#8221; saying &#8220;there is, and always will be, only one Tim Curry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgoohckRw8\/?img_index=4&amp;igsi=MTN1MTU5ZDVidzR6YQ\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The letter reads, external<\/a>: &#8220;Although we&#8217;ve never met, you&#8217;ve been part of this journey from the very beginning. Every actor who puts on Frank inevitably walks into a conversation that started with you, and I&#8217;ve felt that every single night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being compared to you has been one of the greatest compliments I&#8217;ve ever received, even though it&#8217;s a comparison no one could ever hope to live up to. There is, and always will be, only one Tim Curry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never tried to recreate what you did. That would be impossible. I simply hope to honour the extraordinary character you brought to life, while finding my own way through him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As this chapter comes to an end, I just wanted to say thank you. For your fearless performance, for creating something so enduring, and for inspiring generations of actors to be a little braver than they thought they could be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope, wherever you are, you&#8217;d approve of one more Frank having the time of his life in those heels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With enormous admiration, Luke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star Luke Evans has paid tribute to Tim Curry, who has died at the age of 80.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}