BRIAN HELGELAND:
"Whenever I start to
write a screenplay, I get a lot of inspiration from music. I try to pick a kind
of music that relates to whatever it is I'm writing at any given time. I
thought about what this movie was about, and it seemed to me like a movie about
youth, identity, personal expression and freedom, and that seemed to be rock
and roll. Then, while I was writing it, I wanted to incorporate that music into
the movie. I didn't think about it that much until people reading it said, 'Do
you think this is going to work?'"
HEATH LEDGER: (William) Re: the unusual choice in music:
"All the songs were in the
script. It's really smart what Brian did with the music, because he broke down
the barriers that would have kept the movie historically correct. I guess the
good thing about the music was it gave the movie a broader playground to play
in."
RUFUS SEWELL: (Count Adhemar):
"Brian filmed it in
such a way that he couldn't remove the music. I thought that maybe they'd do it
in a safety way, so that if it didn't play well in Wyoming they could remove
it. But when you have people clapping and singing along you can't do that,
which I thought was really ballsy. I liked that."
 PAUL BETTANY (Chaucer): Re
appearing nude in his first scene in the movie.
"For some ungodly reason I
end up being nude in a lot of stuff. This was a particularly difficult one,
because it was the first day and I had to look relaxed about it. And being an
American film, there were seven thousand in the crew. I hear rumors that some
people wear socks over their penis, but frankly you're wearing a sock on your
penis, aren't you? So you're still drawing attention to yourself. There's a
certain grace that comes with taking your clothes off on the first day, which
is the respect that is given to you by the rest of the cast, because they look
at your body and go, 'God you're brave. You can't even spell gym can
you?'"
MARK ADDY: (Roland)
"The nudity that I had to do
(in The Full Monty) was very brief and there were six of us. Paul's
first day of shooting had him walking through the Prague countryside as bold as
brass, totally naked, and he hadn't even met the crew! It took a lot of
courage."
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