The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
She's back... Looking as gorgeous and outrageous as ever in a brand new frock.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Timing:
1:44 (104 min)
7.267/10
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Country
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Budget
$2 000 000
Revenue
$28 200 000
Website
Director
Actors
Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick, June Marie Bennett, Rebel Penfold-Russell, John Casey, Murray Davies, Frank Cornelius
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Al Clark, Michael Hamlyn, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Operator
Brian J. Breheny
Composer
Guy Gross
Artist
Audition
Editing
Sue Blainey
All team (53)
All team (53)
Short description
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the beginning of filming, director Stephan Elliott took the three lead actors to a gay and transvestite costume party where they went unrecognized. As a result, Guy Pearce began to be rude to those around him, Terence Stamp forgot where he was and started hitting on the girls, and Hugo Weaving got so drunk that he lay under one of the tables for several hours (he only had enough strength to try to tap out the rhythm of the screaming music with his fingers). A similar scene was then included in the script.
- The bus, on which filming took place while in motion, was so small that the crew simply had nowhere to go and had to remain in the frame, hiding under piles of clothes and other props.
- Bill Hunter (1940-2011) simultaneously starred in P.J. Hogan's comedy 'Muriel's Wedding' (1994) and this film, with both roles requiring his characters to have beards and hairstyles of varying lengths, and the filming locations being in different parts of the country.
- According to Terence Stamp, he got into the role by imagining himself as a beautiful woman. However, the director and screenwriter, Stephan Elliott, instructed cinematographer Brian J. Breheny to make Stamp look as bad as possible. Stamp never reviews the footage shot during the day, so he had no idea how he actually looked on screen until the film's premiere. Upon seeing himself at the premiere, he experienced a genuine shock, and Breheny even apologized to him.
- The scenes with which the film begins and ends were filmed on the same day.
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