A number of Hollywood luminaries took to social media to pay tribute to British performing icon Terence Stamp, who died on Sunday at 87.
Stamp was an everlasting cultural icon of the Swinging ’60s who first made his identify with movies like Billy Budd, Far From the Madding Crowd, Poor Cow and Teorema earlier than discovering later mainstream success with roles in Superman II, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Massive Eyes and Final Night time in Soho.
Filmmaker Edgar Wright, who labored with Stamp on his 2021 function Final Night time in Soho, wrote on X, “Terence was form, humorous, and endlessly fascinating. I beloved discussing music with him (his brother managed The Who, and he’s name-checked in The Kinks’ Waterloo Sundown) or reminiscing about his movies, going again to his debut in Billy Budd. He spoke of his final shot in that movie, describing a transcendental second with the digicam — a way of turning into one with the lens. Many years later, whereas directing him, I witnessed one thing related. The nearer the digicam moved, the extra hypnotic his presence grew to become. In close-up, his unblinking gaze locked in so powerfully that the impact was extraordinary. Terence was a real film star: the digicam beloved him, and he beloved it proper again.”
Legendary Hollywood producer Gale Anne Hurd, who labored with Stamp on 1988’s Alien Nation, tweeted, “Terence Stamp was a superb actor. I feel he and Peter O’Toole not solely had essentially the most mesmerizing eyes … however delivered equally indelible performances.”
Actor Lou Diamond Phillips, who starred with Stamp in Younger Weapons, wrote on X, “Terribly saddened to listen to this. We had been all extremely privileged to have labored with him on Younger Weapons. He grounded all of us and really elevated the filming expertise. Such class and artistry. What a sort, stunning, beneficiant man. RIP”
On X, Stamp’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert co-star Man Pearce wrote, “Fairwell expensive Tel. You had been a real inspiration, each in & out of heels. We’ll all the time have Kings Canyon, Kings street & F’ing ABBA. Wishing you nicely in your approach ‘Ralph’! xxxx💕”
Chatting with the Guardian, Priscilla writer-director Stephen Elliott stated, “We talked lengthy and arduous about why he’d initially stated no [to the role]. It was concern. And truthful sufficient — you’ve got to recollect we had been popping out of the HIV/Aids mess. It was a taboo topic. I seemed on the work that he’d completed all over, just like the Italian years when he labored with Fellini and Pasolini, and thought: this was a person who took probabilities. And I feel he was at completely the proper second in his life the place he was prepared for one more probability. Terence admitted he was completely terrified to play Bernadette — he was being voted one of many best-looking males on earth and immediately in Priscilla he was, and this can be a direct quote, ‘dressed up as an outdated canine.’ However he put the ache of what he was going by into the efficiency, and that’s what made the movie.”
Elliott added, “Terence saved to himself. He was an enigma. After which he’d present up, use the eyes and switch everyone to jelly.”
Beneath is a few of the response to Stamp’s dying and notable leisure trade individuals who have shared their ideas and recollections of the actor.