This Wednesday, June 14, you have an appointment with the band of The Full Monty in the continuation of their misadventures on Disney +. 25 years after pulling out all the stops, what has become of Gaz and his friends? Find out the answer now in the series!
Remember, it was 25 years ago when six unemployed men got naked on stage to make some cash in cult film The Full Monty, a feel-good comedy that has become a true classic over the years. years. In 2023, Gaz and his band bring out the big game… or almost, in a series to discover on Disney+.
For this event return, everyone answered the call: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber and Hugo Speer resume their respective roles, as do Lesley Sharp and Wim Snape. A meeting in due form, therefore, which allows the public to discover what happened to the fine team all these years after their famous striptease.
RETURN TO SHEFFIELD
Unfortunately for their characters, the situation hasn’t really improved in 25 years… The Full Monty: the series tells how our heroes struggle to survive in Sheffield in the face of a flagging economy in all sectors and how, through their collective efforts and their deep humanity, they will find solutions as absurd as they are inventive to triumph over adversity.
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“What a dream to find these characters from 25 years ago and observe where they are in today’s society, to be able to play them again and hang out with a few of your friends for a whole summer, and with new acquaintances as well. It was a joy and a dream that I still live today!” tells Wim Snape, who plays the son of Gaz, still a child in the film, and now a father and a policeman in the series.
Alongside the actors of the first hour, there are also new recruits, including Talitha Wing, who lends her features to Destiny Schofield, Gaz’s teenage daughter. “It was really great! I was very nervous obviously because the movie has such a big legacy and I know it has a big meaning for a lot of people, but it was great. From reading the script for the first time and meeting everyone, I immediately felt embraced by The Full Monty family,” she enthuses.
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A FUNNY AND AUTHENTIC STORY
Over its 8 episodes, The Full Monty: the series depicts the sometimes funny and moving, even ridiculous and desperate misadventures of the famous band and their entourage. It tackles subjects that could not be more current, all accentuated by the corrosive humor of Gaz and his friends and the improbable situations in which they find themselves, and which made the success of Peter Cattaneo’s film.
“I think it would be a mistake to recount the lives of these men 25 years later and dilute everything that has happened in the country since that time. It’s been very difficult for a lot of people, 25 years of Conservative government and austerity, emphasizes Robert Carlyle. Simon [Beaufoy, le scénariste de la série et du film] brilliantly balances comedy and tragedy. It is something very difficult to do.”
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“There are things that will make you laugh, and others that will make you cry, it’s part of the rich fresco of life,” complete Mark Addy. An opinion also shared by his co-star Lesley Sharp who salutes the work of the writers of the series: “It’s one of the great qualities of Simon and Alice [Nutter], they don’t shy away from writing about darker and more difficult issues, but they do so with heart and kindness.”
25 years after winning the hearts of viewers, find these working-class heroes now as they continue their tribulations in The Full Monty: The Series, on Disney+.
Comments collected by Solène Boutillier during the junket of June 8, 2023.