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Charlotte Church has described the Kevin Allen interpretation of Under Milk Wood as “really horny” – and also revealed how London mayor Boris Johnson made her really angry in an new interview.
The singing sensation and political firebrand told The Guardian that she was “pleasantly surprised” by the eroticism of Kevin Allen’s vivid adaptation of Dylan Thomas ’ most famous play, which aired on S4C on Christmas Day last year.
Here Kevin Allen talk about the film:
She said: “It’s totally mad. When we were filming I was like “how the f*** is this going to come together?” because lots of the settings are so individually surreal.
“But when I saw it I was so pleasantly surprised. I never did it at school – but Kevin bringing out the eroticism of some of the words was really smart. Looking at it today it seems glaringly obvious because it’s really, really horny. Obviously everything is exaggerated, but you see the eccentricities of an ordinary Welsh town.”
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The Welsh-language version of Under Milk Wood, Dan Y Wenallt, and the English version, were filmed back-to-back on the west coast near Solva, and also stars Rhys Ifans as Captain Cat.
It has been put forward by BAFTA for a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the 2016 Oscars.
Church, who said on BBC’s The One Show on Friday night that she wouldn’t fancy being a full blown politician just yet, praised her co-stars in the interview. She said: “All the people on set, they were just lovely, there was no negativity or ego.
“Everyone just mucked in and had a ball. But then the Welsh people, we’re quite a surreal nation at times, which might have something to do with the amount of magic mushrooms growing on the hillside.
“And what I like is all the women in the film are just as sexual as the men – it’s this across-the-board equally animalistic impulse.”
Her passion on-screen is certainly matched by her recent off-screen commitments, Church has been a dedicated opponent of the Conservative government’s austerity measures and a regular at rallies around the UK.
But it was London Mayor Boris Johnson who got in her bad books after returning from an event in Manchester earlier this month.
She said: “Seeing Boris Johnson talking about this mass of people who had been at the rally, and him basically saying they’re all crusties with nose rings. It’s like, regardless of whether people are Tories and agree with your government or not, your remit is to listen to the concerns of everybody, so for you to mock a massive section of people who are politically engaged is so disrespectful. It made me really, really angry with him.
“A rally is such a lovely environment. I have never witnessed any violence. I’ve taken my kids the majority of the time. I’m trying to bring them up in a communal way.”
