lust for glorious

A made-for-tv movie shown on Channel Izzard. Available on the box set version of Glorious.

An extract from a London Times interview:

His movie, Izzard - Lust For Glorious, follows the fortunes of a comedian who looks and acts very much like an over-inflated, egotistical, self-fulfilling Eddie Izzard might. "The arsehole version of me," he points out dryly. His character is a successful comedian in the UK, eager to break into the lucrative American market. To ease the transatlantic transition he hits on the idea of creating a three-minute, hard-edged, MTV-generation, promo film to sell himself to the Americans.

"A sort of Eighties video, bit like Duran Duran's Rio," is how Izzard sees it. Musically, however, Duran Duran are out. Suede's single, Filmstar, will provide the musical colour.

Then, there is a film within the film. Most of the shooting time is being spent on the documentary based around the making of the promo. Izzard admits that at times even he and the director, Peter Richardson, who created the pastiche Professionals ad for Nissan and looks unnervingly like a chain-smoking Sir George Martin, get a little lost. They have a treatment, they insist, but large chunks of the script appear to have been written on hotel headed notepaper.

"That's extra writing, the treatment was printed out really quite nicely. It was, I can assure you," insists Izzard, not unreasonably.

Credits:

Mark Caven
Eddie Izzard.... Himself
Phil Kay.... AJ
Mac McDonald.... Al
Deborah Sheridan-Taylor.... Melanie Greenstein

Click here to hear the Lust for Glorious trailer in Real Audio.

Click here to see Lust for Glorious screen captures and the trailer (Eddie Izzard's Executive Archive)

Click here for the lyrics of Filmstar by Suede