Michele Hewitson Interview: Richard O'Brien
By Michele Hewitson
5:30 AM Saturday Nov 6, 2010
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Richard O'Brien, creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, wanted to do the interview over lunch. I thought we should go somewhere nice, and, hopefully, quiet. We went to O'Connell Street Bistro, which is very nice, and usually quiet. I hadn't thought that through, had I? The first thing he said was: "I hear you're trouble." He was really talking about himself.
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He's been unhappy about his sexuality and not fitting in for most of his life and went "completely crackers" when he was 62. "I didn't want to be marginalised. Now I don't care. I'll never be a woman and I don't want to be. I should have been, but I wouldn't want to be a parody." He wouldn't want to have a sex change: "No man is going to love me in the same way he's going to love a woman and I can't have babies, so what's the point?" But would he want a man to love him the way he might a woman? "I'd love to have been loved. I've never been loved; I've never been in love."