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Why, Doc?! Just whyy?!!
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Interview with Rhys Ifans for Playboy:
”As a youth, there were drugs and drinking; it’s a prerequisite. I was a regular, badly behaved teenager—chastised and punished but always supported, unlike most kids. I was also very political, as were my parents and younger brother.”
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”Yes, but my first masturbatory icon was Debbie Harry from Blondie. I was besotted. I can’t remember which video it was in, but she had on this asymmetric dress and had bleached hair in front. What really turned me on was this black bit she had in her hair. Oh man.”
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“Before I performed Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre in 1995, I went back to Wales, to this small village where Dylan wrote the vast majority of his work, and to Browns Hotel, where he drank the vast majority of his drink. I finished my jug and got the idea to spend the night on his grave, a very Thomas-esque thing to do. I was hoping for some osmosis, and it kind of worked.”
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“When I was 18 or 19 I wrote letters to Howard Marks when he was in prison. It was just astounding to me that this guy, who was also a Welshman, had traveled the world and at any given time was possibly responsible for the trafficking of one third of the world’s marijuana. So what’s a young, pot-smoking punk-rocker kid from north Wales going to do? You write to him and say, “Don’t worry. There’s somebody thinking about you. And by the way, thank you for all the pot.”
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“It happened in Wales, and as far as I can remember, I didn’t do too badly. Before that I had pretty much seen naked women only in magazines an older boy brought to camp from his dad’s garage. The magazines were full of women with vaginas with big Fidel Castro beards, which was kind of overwhelming.”
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”I learned early that I’m not a tit man or a butt man. I don’t view women in that way. If I’m anything, I’m a smile man, but I like the whole package in all its cacophony.”
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Beyond my three penises, a sense of humor goes a long way. I’m also kind of unaware of myself. I don’t find beauty intimidating. I never run away from a sunset.
Read the full interview with Rhys for Playboy! A lot of interesting, funny and naughty facts about Rhys x))
He loses his way and becomes greedy by stopping at nothing to regain his arm. In that pursuit, I become a large, scaly, strong, sexy creature.
Rhys Ifans Camped Out While Shooting Notting Hill
Welsh movie star Rhys Ifans camped out in a tent near Shepperton Studios in England while filming Notting Hill - so he could avoid a long, complicated commute to work.
The actor couldn’t be bothered getting up early and trekking to the set - to play Hugh Grant’s slovenly flatmate, so be bought a tent and a sleeping bag and slept at a campsite minutes from the film mecca.
He tells Playboy magazine, “We were filming at Shepperton, a studio that can take several nightmarish hours to get to and from. I thought, ‘How am I going to get around this torturous journey?’
“So I got a tent and a sleeping bag and camped near the studio, which sort of helped the whole unkemptness of the character.”
And Ifans famously didn’t shower or brush his teeth during filming - so he’d really become the unhygienic character he was playing opposite Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
He adds, “Julia never saw me as I normally look so she probably thought I was some guy they found in the street.”
But he still arrived in style for work every day.
The Welshman explains, “Due to insurance and liability issues, a limo still had to show up to drive me to the studio. So every day this guy who owned the campsite would watch me walk across the field, get into a limo and be driven away.”
