It’s Curtains For O’Toole

Veteran actor Peter O'Toole is the latest actor to sign on for The Final Curtain - the next film out of the stable of John Hodge. Talking to The Daily Telegraph this week, O'Toole was characteristically enthusiastic about the project, ''Fabulous, fabulous,' he told his interviewer. 'It's a great script, an amazing role.' O'Toole plays TV personality - J J Curtis who enters into combat with a young upstart to showbusiness (played by Queer as Folk's Aidan Gillen). In an effort to gain the upper hand, Curtis employs a ghost writer to write a glorified biography only to hate the results. At 68 O'Toole's career shows no signs of tailing off, but the actor is adamant that he'll know when to bow out. 'One of the lovely things about being an actor is that you can go on for ever - although I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage... In f***ing Macclesfield or something... Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.' Final Curtain, which also stars Julia Sawalha and Adrian Lester, is the first film for Hodge without his usual directing partner Danny Boyle. The duo said, whilst publicising the Beach, that if it wasn't a success it would be the last film they made together.