{"id":24352,"date":"2015-10-28T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=24352"},"modified":"2015-10-28T19:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:04:49","slug":"metro-60-seconds-with-toyah-willcox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/metro-60-seconds-with-toyah-willcox\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro: 60 Seconds With Toyah Willcox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"metro15a\"Toyah was interviewed earlier this month, in Metro<\/em>‘s “60 Seconds With”, discussing Aaaaaaaah!<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n

The actress and singer, 57, is starring in a dark British comedy where all the characters act like wild apes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Your new film, Aaaaaaaah!<\/em>, is brilliantly bonkers. Why did you say yes to a movie about humans behaving like apes?<\/strong>
\nIt was a clever. well structured, brilliant script with absolutely no respect for anything. It was fabulously complex and incredibly rewarding to do. But I never thought, ‘What the hell have I got myself into?’ because it was a team of really great comedians (including Julian Rhind-Tutt and Julian Barrett) and so they had licence to do something as mad as this.<\/p>\n

How do you describe it to your friends?<\/strong>
\nThe first thing I say is, ‘Don’t go and see it!’ I’m 57, so my friends aren’t that much older than me. I said, ‘If you can’t handle vomit, poo, semen, gratuitous sex and gratuitous violence, this isn’t for you,’ and they say, ‘Oh God we’ve got to see this film!’<\/p>\n

What was the maddest scene?<\/strong>
\nIt was a kitchen scene. I cook for my husband (musician Robert Fripp) three times a day and so to do the cooking scene was very natural. But to do it where there are no social norms and no hygiene is a very different thing. To do a cookery scene while watching telly with one of the most brilliant interpretations of food porn I’ve ever seen and then to take a crap in the corner – I just thought it was utter genius…<\/p>\n

What were your inspirations?<\/strong>
\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show, because people come looking their worst and behave their worst. The idea was to take it a stage further; if you take language, education and culture away, what would happen? So it has incredible social comment.<\/p>\n

What else are you up to?<\/strong>
\nI’m gigging. I do about four shows a week. There’s Toyah Acoustic, which is hugely successful, probably because my age group now like to sit down and watch a show. And Toyah Electric, which is the punk rock stuff, though you can hear everyone creaking as they pogo. But it’s a lot of fun. And I’m in a film called Lies We Tell, with Gabriel Byrne. The cast is mainly from Delhi, it’s a Bollywood-cast show in Bradford.<\/p>\n

What are fans surprised to find out about you?<\/strong>
\nThat I drive myself to venues. People ask, ‘Where’s your entourage?’ And I say, ‘I don’t want one.’ People think I would turn up with a chauffeur and I couldn’t think of anything I would want less. They’d distract you. I prefer to travel alone.<\/p>\n

I take it you don’t like social media then?<\/strong>
\nCan’t stand it.<\/p>\n

And what makes you happy?<\/strong>
\nI absolutely love to have solitude when I need it – that’s to do with mental happiness.<\/p>\n

Any childhood obsessions?<\/strong>
\nAll my life I’ve had white rabbits as pets.<\/p>\n

Childhood nicknames?<\/strong>
\nI had one leg longer than the other when I was younger – my legs have been made the same length now – so I was called Hop-A-Long.<\/p>\n

Oh dear!<\/strong>
\nThere was worse than that. I was overweight and I was called Barrel. I come from Birmingham, which has never been politically correct, so those names were signs of affection.<\/p>\n

I hear you were into aliens as a kid<\/strong>
\nYeah, I’m interested in anything that pushes the boundaries of reality. I’m convinced we’re sold reality as a control mechanism. I’m absolutely convinced that we are conscious for 70 to 80 years but then we move into a different consciousness. Therefore, why shouldn’t aliens exist? I used to live in Sailsbury where UFOs were spotted all the time but God knows what the military got up to.<\/p>\n

Have you ever had any predictive dreams?<\/strong>
\nI’ve had acting jobs recently that I dreamt about when I was a teenager. There’s one I’m waiting to happen because it was so real I can’t believe it won’t happen. Five years ago I collapsed after having a hip replacement. While I was unconscious, I dreamt I was in New York starring in a medical TV drama. It was so detailed. I actually thought when I was revived in the hospital that that<\/em> was the dream. I was the lead doctor and about ten years older than I am now. If that ever comes along, I’m taking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyah was interviewed earlier this month, in Metro‘s “60 Seconds With”, discussing Aaaaaaaah! and more. The actress and singer, 57, is starring in a dark British comedy where all the characters act like wild apes. Your new film, Aaaaaaaah!, is brilliantly bonkers. Why did you say yes to a movie about humans behaving like apes? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[1479,1022,1428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24359,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352\/revisions\/24359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}