Post by Leanne on Dec 5, 2007 16:04:44 GMT -5
Pattirose ..here is the article I was Referring to ..found under News on Kevinmckiddonline.com......
Ross, Peter. "Mikado about Nothing." [Topsy Turvy]
The Sunday Herald: 13 February 2000.
He became a leprechaun to keep the tax man at bay. Now Kevin McKidd has gone from myth to music and a film about Gilbert and Sullivan.
YOU might imagine that starring in a string of acclaimed movies would be the fast-lane to cash heaven, but not for Kevin McKidd. The 26-year-old Scots actor had to dress up as a leprechaun to get his hands on a pot of gold. Having spent the first half of last year out of work and in the red, McKidd leaped at the chance of playing Jericho O'Grady in The Magical Legend Of The Leprechauns, a US mini- series starring Whoopi Goldberg and Randy Quaid.
"Basically I had spent six months working in pubs in London and doing mountain bike couriering for #3 a package because the tax man had got me," says McKidd in the deep but soft tones that reveal his roots in the north-east of Scotland. "He totally cleaned me out. I didn't have a bean and I was about to have my house taken off me. Work had dried up for some reason. No meetings, no nothing. I thought that was it. Then this leprechaun thing came up and I thought: 'Right! I don't give a s**t, I'll do it. Just f****** give me the money.' So it was one of them, a doing it for the money job.
"It was good laugh, though. Roger Daltrey was playing the fairy prince. It was one of those Easter Sunday NBC television extravaganzas. It had a big, big budget but it wasn't exactly high art."
Today, McKidd is thankfully free of ginger whiskers and emerald green knickerbockers. .....
rest of this article can be read here www.kevinmckiddonline.com/news.html
Ross, Peter. "Mikado about Nothing." [Topsy Turvy]
The Sunday Herald: 13 February 2000.
He became a leprechaun to keep the tax man at bay. Now Kevin McKidd has gone from myth to music and a film about Gilbert and Sullivan.
YOU might imagine that starring in a string of acclaimed movies would be the fast-lane to cash heaven, but not for Kevin McKidd. The 26-year-old Scots actor had to dress up as a leprechaun to get his hands on a pot of gold. Having spent the first half of last year out of work and in the red, McKidd leaped at the chance of playing Jericho O'Grady in The Magical Legend Of The Leprechauns, a US mini- series starring Whoopi Goldberg and Randy Quaid.
"Basically I had spent six months working in pubs in London and doing mountain bike couriering for #3 a package because the tax man had got me," says McKidd in the deep but soft tones that reveal his roots in the north-east of Scotland. "He totally cleaned me out. I didn't have a bean and I was about to have my house taken off me. Work had dried up for some reason. No meetings, no nothing. I thought that was it. Then this leprechaun thing came up and I thought: 'Right! I don't give a s**t, I'll do it. Just f****** give me the money.' So it was one of them, a doing it for the money job.
"It was good laugh, though. Roger Daltrey was playing the fairy prince. It was one of those Easter Sunday NBC television extravaganzas. It had a big, big budget but it wasn't exactly high art."
Today, McKidd is thankfully free of ginger whiskers and emerald green knickerbockers. .....
rest of this article can be read here www.kevinmckiddonline.com/news.html