• Tim Curry recalled Susan Sarandon getting recognized with pneumonia after filming a pivotal scene in The Rocky Horror Image Present.
• The actor stated his former costar "would inform anyone who would stand nonetheless" about her sickness.
• Curry made a uncommon public look at an occasion in Los Angeles celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the musical cult traditional.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show appears to be like prefer it was a blast to shoot — however the set wasn't all the time a nice surroundings.

Tim Curry celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the musical cult traditional throughout a uncommon public look at a screening of it on the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Friday night time.

On the pre-screening Q&A, the actor behind Dr. Frank-N-Furter was requested to recall any fond recollections from the movie's manufacturing in 1974 — and he responded with an anecdote that doesn't truly sound fond in any respect.

"I keep in mind everyone shivering after the pool scene," he stated of a sequence close to the film's climax during which Frank, Janet (Susan Sarandon), Brad (Barry Bostwick), and different characters find yourself diving right into a swimming pool. "We had been frozen, and the water was chilly."

So chilly that one forged member fell ailing. "Susan truly bought pneumonia," he stated of the Thelma and Lousie star. "And wore it as a badge of honor. And would inform anyone who would stand nonetheless."

Curry went on to inform one other anecdote about his former costar that he discovered secondhand. "I simply heard that they've been making a documentary not too long ago, and Susan was a part of it," he stated. "When she sat within the chair that they offered for her, she appeared on the lights and stated, 'No, no, that received't do.' And he or she bought up, rearranged all of the lamps."

He added, "That's a real skilled."

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Sarandon confirmed her on-set pneumonia in an interview with Yahoo Leisure in 2014.

"It was truly snowing and raining in the home and for some purpose there was no warmth within the studio,” the actress stated. “So I had pneumonia, as a result of I used to be clearly hardly dressed by means of plenty of it, and damp.”

The Oscar winner instructed the outlet that she was suggested to halt her work on the movie till she recovered. "And so the physician got here and stated I actually shouldn't return to work 'trigger I had strolling pneumonia," Sarandon recalled. "And what they may do was both put me in a scorching bathtub or heat me up between every [scene]. They thought, 'Right here's the American diva.' They weren't very pleased to listen to any of that."

She added that the crew's efforts to maintain her snug ended up inflicting a hearth on set. "They created a display that they put area heaters in so there was one heat place to go," she remembered. "And everyone went in there, after which it went up in flames, and that was the tip of that."

Nevertheless, on the Rocky Horror occasion on Friday, Curry stated he had no reminiscence of a fireplace throughout manufacturing. "Fireplace adopted me from film to film, however I don't assume there was one on that set," he stated. "Rumor incorrect."

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Elsewhere on the occasion, Curry stated the LGBTQ+ neighborhood's embrace of the movie "means so much" to him.

"I feel the message of the movie — 'Don't dream it, be it' — is essential," he stated, including that Rocky Horror has "given anybody permission to behave as badly as they actually wish to, in no matter manner, and with whom."

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