Robert Carlyle on The Full Monty's Return: "If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry"
Robert Carlyle on The Full Monty's Return: "If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry"
Image source, Ben Blackall/DisneyBy Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter
The Full Monty, about a group of unemployed Sheffield steelworkers turned strippers, was one of the best-loved and highest-grossing British films of the 1990s. A new streaming series shows what it's all about fate of the characters.
The Full Monty movie opens with an image of an abandoned factory in Sheffield and ends with a group of former employees walking out scrap metal to put on a strip show at a workers' club.
Twenty-six years later, the new Disney+ series opens with a photo of the same workers' club. It's now derelict too.
A quarter of a century may have passed, but little has changed.
And despite the 1997 film's uplifting ending, it turns out that most of the six friends themselves only narrowly avoided abandonment.
Image source, Ben Blackall/DisneyBy Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter
The Full Monty, about a group of unemployed Sheffield steelworkers turned strippers, was one of the best-loved and highest-grossing British films of the 1990s. A new streaming series shows what it's all about fate of the characters.
The Full Monty movie opens with an image of an abandoned factory in Sheffield and ends with a group of former employees walking out scrap metal to put on a strip show at a workers' club.
Twenty-six years later, the new Disney+ series opens with a photo of the same workers' club. It's now derelict too.
A quarter of a century may have passed, but little has changed.
And despite the 1997 film's uplifting ending, it turns out that most of the six friends themselves only narrowly avoided abandonment.
Image source, Ben Blackall/Disney
