SEAN
BROWNING'S
20 QUESTIONS
June
29, 2000. Boy, once you get Sean started, it's hard to get him stopped! The
questions are candid, and asked by the rest of the crew. If you have a
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Q. Which celebrity, dead or alive, would you
like to sleep with?
A. Male or female? Karen Allen.
Q. What is your favourite moment on stage?
A. Getting naked with Kerry (Griffin,
from the cast of The Sorceress) at a Theatre Sports bar show during a
smutty improv scene on the beach. And once I got a standing ovation when I
was in Oliver! as Fagan.
Q. If The Sorceress cast was on Survivor,
who would you vote off?
A. I can answer this question with total
clarity. I'd go home myself. I enjoy a hot shower and my futon.
I just don't like the taste of rat.
Q. Tell us about married life in one sentence.
A. It's good. No, ugh.. it's a good
place to be when you're losing your hair and getting fat. You change your
opinion about sex. It's quality, not quantity. Oh, that first
question... I'd sleep with Eric Stoltz. That's the only male
celebrity. I like his quiet, gentle demeanor - don't put that in there.
Q. At what point does bread become
toast? [Is this a lame question or what?}
A. Always - cause bread gets too soggy in
sandwiches... after the first crust is formed. In the time it takes for a
skin to grow on a pudding...
Q. If you were a pharmaceutical company, what
would you be called?
A. Placebo's R Us, but it's a backwards
R... Oh, yeah, Periwinkle! [In The Sorceress, Doc writes
Periwinkle on his prescriptions for sugar pills.]
Q. What film have you seen that has effected
you most as a scriptwriter?
A. I would say a scene in Brazil...
Line "How are the twins?"... Answer was "triplets". He
says, "Oh, how time flies/" It was a Tom Stoppard moment.
It was dark absurdity.
Q. Anteater or a helmet?
A. Anteater.
Q. In what way are you like Doc Claybank, your
character in The Sorceress?
A. Doc reminds me of my Dad - who I will
become.
Q. Elvis or the Beatles?
A. Beatles. I never loved Elvis.
Q. What does the tattoo on your calve mean?
A. (a) Tree of life; (b) on the
back of XTC's album Nonsuuch, from an old English wood carving.
Q. If you were a soup of the day, what would
you be?
A. Campbell's Chunky - because no one
knows if they should prod me with a fork or a spoon.
Q. Tell us about your first time on stage?
A. Grade 4. The Canada Goose,
I was the Canadian Motto.
Q. If you had an alter ego, what would it be
like?
A. It would be Timothy Leggs - a cartoon
character I came up with in university who only had one eye and stole
vegetables.
Q. So, what's with your obsession with
England?
A. My grandpa was born there, before he
died, I promised him a Tottenham jersey, but he died before I managed to get
one. I brought back an English film container of English soil to sprinkle
over his grave.
Q. When was the first time you got drunk and
threw up?
A. 15, in high school. I'd had 16
shots of scotch, 1 tequila. I hit on my friend's mother, then threw up on
a snowmobile. I woke up in the morning thinking, "I hit on my
friend's mother."
Q. You are alone on the dance floor. The
music stops, what do you see?
A. A giant jar of mustard. Put on
your flippers.
Q. What's your motto?
A. From Thomas Dolby's song Windpower...
"Turn off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be."
Q. What's the best concert you have ever seen?
A. Pulp.
Q. What band has most affected you?
A. XTC.
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