Stripping isn't central to 'The Full Monty' series, but the working class struggle remains
Peter Cattaneo earned an Oscar nomination for “The Full Monty” and then couldn’t figure out what to do next. He’s back 23 years later with the British choir comedy “Military Wives.”
Steve Huison, who plays Lomper, was part of the original film cast. “They said, ‘Everybody else is on board,’ which is obviously a lever.” Huison, who left acting years ago to become a painter, says he agreed to play Lomper again because he trusts Beaufoy’s storytelling. It helped that his cast mates were in as well.The series shifts its focus away from the characters’ short-lived stripping career, which came as a relief for the cast, who felt they were too old to be taking their clothes off onscreen.
“The relationship between Jean and Dave arguably was the emotional center of the film,” Sharp says. “Jean was Dave’s biggest cheerleader, and now that has been reversed in a way. Jean has gone all the way with Dave’s support and help. But you’ve got two people who are dealing with a very difficult situation, the death of their baby, and they have both dealt with it in very different ways. Now they’re in danger of losing everything that was so precious.
The TV series balances humor and tragedy like the film did; however, it’s clear in the episodes that things are direr now. Sharp remembers a sense of hope in 1997: A Labour government had been elected, and regeneration was in the works for areas that had taken a hit during the ’80s. “Simon said, in the first phone call I had with him over this, that he was just so hacked off with this government and what they’re doing to people,” Huison says. “And he needed to say something about it, and the only way he knows how is to write drama. So he wanted to write something that wasn’t about your aspirational, middle-class families all having a bloody nice time. He wanted to write about normal people.
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