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James Ivory on Maurice and Call Me By Your Name: ‘Neither film came out of personal suffering’

As 'Maurice' turns 30, its 90-year-old writer and director looks back – and explains why neither of his gay cinema classics are likely to get sequels. By Darren Scott, Independent, 25 Jul 2018

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‘Ivory recalls that at that time – “when everybody lived in a more awkward age, you could say” – the success of Maurice was down to one very important factor: a happy ending.’

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‘Did he ever consider a sequel to that happy ending for Maurice and his new partner, Alec?

“Nobody ever came to me about doing a sequel,” he explains. “I had imagined what a sequel would be, I had it all worked out in my mind. I told people about it but it was never made.”

Ivory wallows in the scenario he would have filmed, a First World War drama where Clive – the first love interest for Maurice, who spurns him in favour of marriage – would have “joined some posh regiment and gone off and been killed”, while Maurice became a conscientious objector. Alec – the gamekeeper who would eventually win Maurice’s heart – would go off “and shoot the Huns…”’

(Ivory’s shared this sequel headcanon before, notably in Robert Emmet Long, James Ivory in Conversation, 2005, p.217.)

Also included: a previously unfamiliar bonus still of Clive in ‘The Night Before Greece’ deleted scene.

Also also included … some RATHER exciting news.

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“He’s effeminate and therefore we think he’s weak, but that man sits in pubs and clubs and houses and hotels telling all the world about his homosexuality out loud, all day long. It doesn’t bother him who’s listening, priests or housewives or landlords or anyone. He tells the truth and doesn’t care. No one else does that, Jeremy. No one. Certainly not us. In this whole land, there is Norman and Norman alone. To be blunt, he amazes me. I think he’s one of the strongest men in the world.”

A Very English Scandal, Part 1 (2018)

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Norman Scott, Mrs Tish, Princess Margaret and steak tartare…

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I'll pass the steak tartare, thank you...!

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TV Review: “A Very English Scandal” – Variety

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Whishaw, so good in “London Spy,” hits new notes here, alternately demanding his truth be told regardless of the consequence and, later, relishing those consequences. It’s moving to watch him demand his dignity in court and delicious to watch him strutting out, boasting “I was rude, I was vile, I was queer, I was myself.”

What “A Very English Scandal” knows is that the future belongs to people like him, those unafraid to speak back to power and to marshal the media in so doing. Thorpe’s reticence is very English; so too is Scott’s mastery of an ascendant tabloid culture. Better still for viewers is the Englishness of the series, which, in keeping with the brevity of many U.K. series, takes a mere three installments to elegantly make its points. Three hours is enough time for two great actors to craft performances whose collision—and an enmity that comes to look a bit like love—is some of the more edifying fun around.

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