Exclusive He 'S Played Every Thing From a Tv Cop to a Bond Villian , but Robert Carlyle has One Acting Dream... I'd Love to Play Leonard Rossiter!
Evening Times › October 02, 2008
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HE'S been a Bond baddie, a cuddly Highland cop in Hamish Macbeth and an unemployed steel worker turned stripper in The Full Monty. But now Glasgow's Hollywood superstar Robert Carlyle has revealed his dream role - Rigsby from Rising Damp.
"Yes, I'd do a bio pic of Leonard Rossiter's life, " he says smiling at the very thought of playing the incorrigible Seventies sitcom landlord, while sipping coffee in a quiet corner of an Edinburgh hotel.See the full content of this document
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Exclusive He 'S Played Every Thing From a Tv Cop to a Bond Villian , but Robert Carlyle has One Acting Dream... I'd Love to Play Leonard Rossiter!
"I'd love to play Leonard. I loved him. I loved Rising Damp, this comedy-tragedy, a man who needed to be important, but like Steptoe, a man trapped."
It's not just Rossiter's role in Rising Damp that Carlyle admires."One of my favourite film moments is his Pink Panther scene, when Clouseau comes to London. ...See the full content of this document
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