He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his progressive fanbase
“Problem one, as I see it? If you do this once, you’ll have to do it to all texts ever, taking out all the words that might upset people. Problem two? You’ll have to change it all again in five years when the new words you put in are out of vogue. So that’s two
He winces, as if in real pain that anyone would think so. “Netflix know, and the Dahls know, that I’m not a mouthpiece for them. I may not always say the right things. But I never, ever say what I am told. I don’t owe anyone anything. Personal-me is agitated by the unsustainable idea of changing people’s fiction. But my view about that is only as important about your view about that.”inchin grew up in Perth on Australia’s west coast, part of a close, socially conservative family.
Soon the trio were in discussion about how Matilda might work on stage, in song. “I never reread Dahl’s book,” Minchin tells me now, “I never watched the [1996] movie.” Instead, in typical fashion, his opening chat with Warchus and Kelly contained a rant. “If you get someone else,” Minchin concluded, “don’t let them fuck this up.
“I couldn’t be more affirmed,” Minchin says. “Thousands and thousands of messages from people who love my stuff. And I don’t undervalue that. But you just get used to it.” He means, each time a post-Matilda project has stuttered, the lingering glow of Matilda has not afforded much protection. “It’s, like, oh, your $100m film got shut down? Well you went to Hollywood, mate! It’s not a craft fair over there. Losing a movie is not really grief.
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