{"id":797375,"date":"2026-10-09T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:36:09","slug":"luke-evans-says-filming-new-tv-drama-close-to-home-was-joyous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797375\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Evans says filming new TV drama close to home was ‘joyous’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After filming wrapped up, Evans headed back to New York where he starred as Dr Frank-N-Furter in the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show. <\/p>\n

“I did the show for seven months and I was coming to the end of the run – I had such an incredible experience doing the show,” he said. <\/p>\n

“It was just the most wonderful, inclusive, joyous two hours of my day. It was wonderful. The audience were just loving it.”<\/p>\n

Evans said that actor Tim Curry had been a part of his “whole journey”, and that he would have people on the stage door and messages “comparing me” to him, and “how proud he would be of the performance.” <\/p>\n

Curry, who died in August, aged 80<\/a>, first played the role on stage before the film version, which was released in 1975 and has remained a cult favourite.<\/p>\n

Evans added: “So I had to send him a letter, even if he’ll never read it.<\/p>\n

“I just felt like I had to say thank you because I really believe that if it wasn’t for Tim’s performances as Frank-N-Furter, I don’t think that film would still be around.<\/p>\n

“He really kept that show, and the messages throughout the show are so prevalent and strong and important today as they were 53 years ago.”<\/p>\n

He received a response from Curry’s team three weeks before his final performance<\/a>, saying that he was “very appreciative” of that letter and thanked him for sending it.<\/p>\n

“Sadly he passed the day after I finished,” Evans said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After filming wrapped up, Evans headed back to New York where he starred as Dr Frank-N-Furter in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797375","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\/797375","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=797375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}