CraveOnline: That's off for good?
Anthony Stewart Head: I don't know. The money dropped out two days before we were supposed to start so it's one of those. In England at the moment, financing films is very, very precarious. I'm hoping to talk to a couple of politicians. My local MP is interested in talking about how we can get it back to a state of normality.
CraveOnline: How much fun was it to be a villain on Dr. Who?
Anthony Stewart Head: Oh, it was fantastic, I have to tell you. If you ever get to see it, I was really pleased with it. My first scene was a Mexican standoff by the side of the school swimming pool. I kept it quite low and menacing and they said, "Don't forget that this is Dr. Who. You can up the ante. You can make it quite over the top." Which is like a red rag to a bull. I got to do some stuff. It regressed. I got not over the top. I did get to do a scream, a screech that is the last shot that I did. I don't know if you remember the Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland, but at the end of it he does this thing. I found out I could do it, so all this time it's something I've been waiting to do. When it came to the actual shot, amazingly we were in this very echo-y stairwell and I did this thing and the crew literally stopped where they stood. In fact, they've augmented it a little electronically.
CraveOnline: Are there prosthetics on you?
Anthony Stewart Head: No, no, it's me. I look a little bit like Mr. Hopkins in his Hannibal Lecter role. My hair is slicked back.
CraveOnline: You know we can't wait to hear you sing again.
Anthony Stewart Head: Thank you very much. I might be working with somebody. There's been so much pressure to do another album. I might be working with a lovely guitarist, a guy that used to work with Seal. When I get back, I've got some of his songs with me now, sort of looking at working on something. We'll see. We might put out a little EP and see how it goes down.
CraveOnline: Would George Sarah be involved again?
Anthony Stewart Head: Not planned to because that was a one off. One of the things that came very strongly from the fans is they wanted an acoustic album, so Gus is a doll. He wrote Kiss From a Rose with Seal.
CraveOnline: With Sold, is Britain having the same sort of property bubble we have here?
Anthony Stewart Head: Oh yeah. They keep saying, the Bank of England keeps saying, it's gonna stop, it's going to end soon and it doesn't. It just keeps going. It's extraordinary.
CraveOnline: What's funny about the real estate market or realtors?
Anthony Stewart Head: They are the supreme salesman. They'll sell you a cupboard and tell you it's a beautiful home with a moderate outlook. Not all of them of course but the more ambitious amongst them are figures of fun. I play the boss of the company. I'm sort of omnipresent. I appear at all sorts of times. It's very funny and it stars a couple of very, very good young rising stars there, a guy called Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick. They're very good.
CraveOnline: What kind of personality is your character as the boss?
Anthony Stewart Head: I kind of modeled him on Alan Sugar who is our equivalent of Donald Trump. He does the English Apprentice. He's an electronics salesman and he's very serious. He doesn't joke very much. Very serious about work. He's a bit like a newscaster but he's got this innate power. People are really scared of him so I modeled him on that.
CraveOnline: Is it nice to do straight comedy? You have a sense of humor and most of your roles have a lot of gravitas.
Anthony Stewart Head: Yes, even Little Britain. I'd be very interested to know what they get away with in Little Britain. There's some serious shock value in that. Yeah, I played the Prime Minister so there was a deal of gravitas but I've done a few bits and pieces of comedy. I've got a movie coming out in August in England. I hope it's going to make it here. It's called Sparkle where I play Stockard Channing's gay brother. I did a pilot last year which they're still talking about, playing a petulant gay rock star.
CraveOnline: At least you got to sing.
Anthony Stewart Head: I did get to sing. Actually, I got to sing a couple of Elton John songs. Elton and his manager put this thing together and I got to sing a couple of songs that he especially wrote for it. It's cool, I had a rock band and everything. I had screaming fans and I had to keep pinching myself that they were being paid to. It's great, it's lovely. I do the thing and it's cool.
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