Absolute Beginner by Kensit Patsy

Author:Kensit, Patsy [Kensit, Patsy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 2013-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

10

Falling in Love Again

Rather than buy a new place once I’d sold the flat, I decided to live back at Mum’s house in Hounslow, although I stayed over with friends in Notting Hill quite a bit, too. I was travelling a lot with work, so I didn’t see any point in putting down roots. I was enjoying being single and going on a few dates, and I felt boosted by the excitement surrounding Twenty-One, so I was in a good place when I headed off to Spain in the spring of 1991 to start filming Beltenebros.

In the movie I play a stripper/cabaret artist, and the part required quite a bit of nudity and sex, so Steve had to negotiate what I would and wouldn’t do beforehand. It’s not unusual for your deal to specify exactly how much flesh you’ll show – for example two inches of knee, a side shot of a breast and so on. I was supposed to be starring opposite Rutger Hauer, but he backed out, so the film was left without a leading man. I suggested Terence Stamp for the role of the assassin, and the director Pilar liked the idea, so he was cast. I’d met Terence socially in the past and admire him a great deal as an actor and as a person as well as loving his books.

Pilar was a very eminent filmmaker, but she wasn’t the easiest person to get along with. She wasn’t particularly kind or sympathetic, considering it was quite a difficult role. Steve ended up having huge rows with her over issues related to nudity that we’d already agreed on and that were specified in my contract. On the plus side, it was a dream to get the opportunity to work with Terence.

One day we were on location at the Palace Hotel in Madrid, filming in a corridor, when all of a sudden I heard a very irate Glaswegian voice. Terence and I were standing on either side of the corridor in our beautiful Sixties costumes and looked round to see a man I recognized as Jim Kerr of Simple Minds marching towards us.

‘For fuck’s sake! I need to get through. I’ve got a meeting downstairs,’ he snapped. When he got to where I was standing he stopped abruptly and said, ‘Oh, hello. What are you doing here?’

‘Um, well clearly we’re filming,’ I replied cheekily. ‘I’m really sorry, film crews always expect the world to revolve round them, don’t they?’

We started having a chat and Jim asked which hotel I was staying at, then I saw Pilar glare over at us because we were holding up the filming, so we said our goodbyes and Jim went off to his meeting. I remember thinking how confident Jim was and I was intrigued.

Later that day one of the assistant directors brought over a note from Jim, which said how nice it had been to meet me earlier. He’d included his phone number and wrote that I should call if I was ever in Scotland and he’d show me the mountains.

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