The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[lynn]

Tim Curry turned down the role of Mitzi.

[marc]

David Bowie, John Cleese, Tim Curry, Tony Curtis and John Hurt were all considered to play Bernadette.

[jeffrey]

Lizzy Gardiner: Uncredited, the film's co-costume designer as the naughty maid at the hotel.

[morris]

This film has a very similar plot to To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). However, neither film is a rip-off or remake of the other. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) was already well into production by the time The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) was released.

[willard]

In the video store is a poster for Frauds (1993), also directed by Stephan Elliott and also starring Hugo Weaving.

[maureen]

Al Clark: Uncredited, one of the movie's producers as a priest.

[aaron]

Bill Hunter was filming Muriel's Wedding (1994) and Priscilla at the same time, each requiring him to have different length hair, beard and to be in different parts of the country.

[charlie]

In reference to Trumpet's nickname, a Monte Carlo is a sweet biscuit manufactured by Arnott's Biscuits in Australia. It consists of two honey-and-coconut biscuits joined by a layer of vanilla cream and raspberry jam.

[kristen]

According to director Stephan Elliott, he got the idea for the film while seeing a plume of feathers break from a drag queen's headdress during Sydney's Mardi Gras parade and go tumbling down a deserted street like a tumbleweed in a Sergio Leone western.

[bessie]

This movie, entirely filmed in Australia, was "shot on location in and around Sydney, Broken Hill, Coober Pedy, Kings Canyon & Alice Springs from 13th September to 30th October 1993". The film was completed in April 1994.

[ivan]

According to director Stephan Elliott, he took the three leads out in drag prior to the beginning of filming. None of them was recognized: Guy Pearce took the opportunity to be outrageously rude, Terence Stamp eventually forgot he was in drag and started hitting on girls, and Hugo Weaving got super-drunk and lay under a table for hours, tapping his finger in time to the music. This last detail was incorporated into the film in the hotel room scene.

[jim]

Back when this film was released, certain Hollywood types still clung to the belief that playing a gay character on-screen would be basically commiting "career suicide". Given that within a relatively few years all 3 leads (Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, & Terrance Stamp) would not only "survive" but they would flourish in Superhero-type videos like "Smallville" (Stamp), "The Matrix" trilogy, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy & "Captain America: First Avenger" (Weaving), and "Iron Man 3" (Pearce) proving that "belief" is no longer the case.

[cameron]

Julia Cortez' debut.

[bryan]

Most of the crew can be seen in the movie at some point.

[stephanie]

Due to a heavy filming schedule, lots of filming was done while the entire crew was on the road. But because the bus was such a small set, there was no room for the crew. As such in many scenes, they are actually in shot, hiding under clothes and other props.

[janice]

Jason Donovan was considered to play Adam.

[nora]

According to Terence Stamp, he had gotten into character by imagining himself as a beautiful woman. But Stephan Elliott told Brian J. Breheny to make Stamp look as bad as possible. Stamp never watches his dailies so he had no idea how he looked until the premiere and was shocked. Breheny apologized to Stamp at the premiere.