June 14th 2023.
Never work with children or animals, or so they say - unless, of course, they happen to be a pigeon. That's according to Steve Huison, star of the much-anticipated TV reboot of the beloved 1997 movie The Full Monty.
Steve is among the original cast, which includes Mark Addy and Lesley Sharp, reprising their roles in the Disney Plus series. The movie followed Robert Carlyle's Gaz and a group of friends rip-off The Chippendales and organise a strip tease at a local Sheffield venue to raise money for child support. Now, the TV story picks up on the characters' lives 25 years later.
Much like its predecessor, The Full Monty doesn't shy away from politics, brilliantly juxtaposing the friends' thrumming humanity with the government's inhumanity, stretching from funding cuts to austerity. One of the most notable scenes is when Steve's character Lomper decides to purchase an expensive pigeon in the hope it breeds offspring in a bid to save his cafe.
But, having one of your most prominent co-stars as a pigeon was apparently not the recipe for disaster you would imagine, with Steve telling The Agency ahead of the series' release 'they were great.' Steve took his preparation for the sequel very seriously - even contacting pigeon fanciers to get the low down. He explained: 'Oh, the pigeons were great. They're very well trained. They're not like your feral pigeons. You can it sit down and say, "Stay there" and it stays. Or you can release it and it goes straight back into its basket. They were they were great. I got quite attached to them.'
Bursting into laughter, Mark, who plays Dave and also spoke to The Agency, asked: 'What kind of response did you get?' Steve joked: 'I don’t have a telly so I have to fill the time somehow.' He continued: 'This chap in Whitby says, “Yeah, come down to my loft.” And I went and spent time with him we talked pigeons.'
Steve added: 'They're quite a special breed - not the pigeons - the fanciers. You know that their lives are devoted to these things, and they love them like anybody else loves their pet. And so, you know, I just transferred that and watched him and watched all the other pigeon fanciers how they are with them and transferred that [onto my performance]. You know that he cares about them and, and there was so easy to work with really.'
When The Full Monty first came out, it broke box office record despite a budget of just £2.8million. It won an Oscar for best original musical or comedy score and was nominated for three others, including best picture and best director. Now, the much-anticipated TV reboot is set to premiere on Disney Plus on Wednesday.
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