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atnwsphere]. There's different light here—and<br />
w here are you going to get the Highlands?<br />
"We have a scene that takes place in an<br />
Indian restaurant and we had trouble finding<br />
an Indian that had a Scottish accent It was<br />
important to go there."<br />
When asked if the mo\ie was difficult to<br />
cast. Rose replies, "Yes and no. It wasn't hard<br />
to cast because everybody wanted the roles,<br />
but it was hard to cast because there wasn't the<br />
money. Agents are a littie reluctant to expose<br />
their clients to these kind of scripts because 10<br />
percent of nothing is nothing, and that's how<br />
they earn their money—as a percentage."<br />
Rose urges fellow p«txiucers to use all resources<br />
available to them to get good scripts<br />
out to high-cahber actors and actresses. "Frances<br />
[Fisher] got this script through my wife at<br />
jweschool. It's very bizarre. That's how scripts<br />
are getting to people like this."<br />
The<br />
highli^t (blcxid, naturally) of "Je<br />
M' Appelle Crawford" is undoubtedh' the<br />
hair show. ""The hairstyles are phenomenal"<br />
says Rose. "They are to this mo\ie w hat the<br />
costumes are to "Priscilla [Queen of the Desert].'<br />
what the space rocket is to "Apollo 13."'Cameos<br />
by hair legends John Paul DeJoria. Jose Eber<br />
and Giuseppe Franco, and models Veronica<br />
Webb and Kyhe Bax, help set the scene.<br />
But w hat of the character Crawfcxd Mac-<br />
Kenzie? '"He's a nice guy. I like him," says<br />
Feiguson. "He shares the "never say die, never<br />
give up' spirit that I've attempted to live by,"<br />
adds Gervasi.<br />
"Je M'Appelle Crawford's" producer Philip Rose (left) and co-writer/executive producer Sacha Gervasi.<br />
Rose predicts that "Je M' Appelle Crawford"<br />
will appeal to all audiences. "It's not<br />
a gay movie even though the subject matter<br />
is hairdressing and the guy happens to<br />
be gay.<br />
"Ifyou conpare it to The Full Monty,' who<br />
went to see that? It wasn't just suppessed<br />
EngUshmen wanting to take their clothes off.<br />
It was everybody."<br />
Says Ferguson, 'It's a clean, good laugh.<br />
And I don't mean clean as in 'you can bring all<br />
the family.' I mean there's a purity about it,<br />
there's a hope. It's a "punch the air in triunq)h'<br />
ccHnedy."<br />
"Je M'Appelle Crawford. " Starring Craig<br />
Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Mary McCormack<br />
Sara Gilbert, David Hasselhqff and Drew<br />
Carey. Directed by Kevin Allen. Written by<br />
Craig Ferguson andSacha Gervasi. Produced<br />
by Philip Rose. A Warner Bros, release. Comedy.<br />
Opens February.<br />
No brain wrap.<br />
ESP 3.<br />
dnema film systems<br />
Response No. 274<br />
<strong>January</strong>, <strong>1999</strong> 17
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