'I'm not John.'
Adam Jackson-Smith is playing Basil Fawlty in the new Fawlty Towers stage play written by John Cleese Adam Jackson-Smith is the man tasked with reinventing the iconic role of stress-head hotel manager Basil Fawlty for the stage. Five decades since goose-stepping, wildly incompetent Basil was first introduced to audiences by John Cleese in 1975 as the protagonist in BBC series Fawlty Towers, and he’s coming back to life in a West End stage play written by the Monty Python star. No pressure, then.
I was very aware of what John did with Basil and what John’s Basil was. But I am definitely not doing an impersonation of that. It’s all me,’ he says. Talking of working from the inside-out, how night after night Adam is going to conjure up the chaotic energy that is practically bursting out of Basil pores, he isn’t sure. ‘It is very physical,’ he says. ‘I just have to make sure I eat enough I think.
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