Alan Cumming Got His ‘Spice World’ Role Thanks to Hamlet

February 25, 2024 @ 4:16 PM

Alan Cumming played filmmaker Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth in the 1997 motion picture “Spice World” starring lady pop icons the Flavor Ladies. It’s a role that Cumming claimed he got after Geri Halliwell– also known as Ginger Flavor– saw him on phase playing the protagonist in “Hamlet.”

Cumming informed Individuals, “The reason that they asked me to be in their film was that Geri, when she was at college, her class came to see me playing Hamlet just a couple of days after her dad died.”

“And, of course, Hamlet is a character whose dad has just died and was in grief for that,” Cumming proceeded. “She really connected with me because of my Hamlet. And that was why they asked me to be in the ‘Spice Girls’ film.”

Cumming claimed that he had a great deal of enjoyable while recording the motion picture. “I learned the Spice Girls’ dance moves from the Spice Girls in between takes. I remember having this crash coach in the Spice Girls and just loving them and their spirit. We laughed all summer. I had a really great time and made really good friends.”

Actually, Cumming stays close friends with each of the Flavor Ladies today. “I bump into them quite a lot and it’s always so lovely,” he included. “I see Geri a lot.”

In retrospection, he claimed, he was able to collaborate with the team throughout their expert top. “It was like they were really delicious, ripe fruit. And shortly after that they went a bit rotting. So I kind of caught them at their prime.”

The 1997 motion picture was a significant social minute for followers of the band. Halliwell was signed up with by her groupmates Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham (after that Adams), Melanie “Sporty Spice” Chisholm and Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown for the 93-minute prance, motivated partly by the Beatles’ motion picture “A Hard Day’s Night.”

“Spice World” still has a hang on target markets years later on. In January 2023, Spin Publication’s Nicholas Bell suggested that when it comes to doubters that ridiculed the motion picture after its launch, “the joke’s on the naysayers, including Mr. Ebert, who arguably wasn’t qualified enough to look past his pretensions to divorce his disdain for their music from the purposeful (and at least semi-successful) frippery of escapist fan fiction.”