The Script
I must confess that when Neill Gorton handed me the script, to see if I was interested in portraying the role of The Milan Incubus I thought it was a lovely lovely part.

My good friend Brian P. Alien usually gets the scripts involving bursting out of human bodies ever since he did that movie, but of course is much much more interested in theatre these days (he's currently appearing bursting out of St. Thomas Moore in A Man For All Seasons at the Nottingham Playhouse).

Neill and I did consider whether I should have elaborate makeup, but in the end decided that I should play the breast-bursting incubus largely as myself, warts and all. And I do have a very large number of warts, incidentally.

I worked on an Milan accent for several months, and it was such a pity that it was finally decided to overdub my dialogue with hisses and growls for technical reasons, but the Director, Mr Massey, was such a sweetie about the whole thing I forgave him, of course.

Production
Miss Imelda Staunton kept us all in fits during the breaks in filming, insisting that since the part required someone to hide under a table, she was the natural choice since she could do it still standing up!

When it came to my scenes employing Neill and several assistants he was using to help me into position, many different shots were made, sometimes involving a few incubi extras in the background. All of the principal images are of me, of course, and Mr Massey even asked me to come back again on another shooting day so that he had sufficient material to work with in the edit.

Mr Ian Macneice told me, that rather than endanger himself working close to a tiger, the effect of him in close proximity to one would be created digitally by the award-winning effects team at No Strings Attached - and so he wound up talking to thin air at one point!

I was interested to see how Mr Paul Shearer's eerie "floating" effect was created - by standing him on a wheeled trolley with a long piece of wood attached and literally "gliding" him backwards and forwards as necessary!

One of the best of the other effects was, in my opinion, the frighteningly realistic false hand that John Strange pulled the embedded scalpel from- it certainly gave me a scare- but then of course, I'm notoriously queasy where blood is involved!