Eric Idle<\/a> has blasted his Monty Python co-stars for being ungrateful<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Eric Idle blasts Monty Python co-stars<\/p>\n
The 82-year-old star \u2013 who wrote the musical Spamalot \u2013 lashed out at surviving Monty Python members John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin and said they should be grateful for the millions they have made in royalty payments from the musical, which is based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n
He told The Guardian: \u201cThey got more f****** money than they\u2019ve ever been grateful for. They got f****** millions and they\u2019re miserable and horrible and b***** about it. I spent 20 years working for Python and then two years on the O2 show. They were there for two weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not really motivated by money, to be honest. Anyway, the producers get all the f****** money and divide it up according to the contract. Someone sued us for years, saying I was paying the Pythons money from my back pocket. And I said: \u2018why would I risk going to an American jail to give John Cleese more money?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Idle also claimed that his co-stars Cleese and the late Graham Chapman were \u201cvery nasty to Miriam Margolyes\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: \u201cI think some of them were scared of women. John Cleese and Graham Chapman were very nasty to Miriam Margolyes and she\u2019s hated them ever since. I always have to remind her that we were friends and I stayed at her apartment. It wasn\u2019t all of us. But most of that generation were terribly cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nEric also admitted \u201cPython was quite a lot of arguing and fights\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nHe explained: \u201cSome things in Python were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was cold and miserable. Sometimes that makes it funny. One of the worst things you can have in comedy is enough money.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPython was quite a lot of arguing and fights and good work is often like that. The best thing about showbiz is when it\u2019s over. I think if you\u2019re enjoying yourself, then you\u2019re not acting or giving, you\u2019re just having a good time. Well, that\u2019s not funny.\u201d<\/p>\n
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