Addy Talks 'Time Machine'

[Monday, April 2nd, 2001]
Mark Addy, known for his role as Fred Flintstone, talks with About.com about Dreamworks' remake of 'The Time Machine' also starring Guy Pearce. He says the plot follows the 1960 filmed version faithfully, but the big difference will be in the modern technology employed in the presentation.

"The original was 1960 so [the remake] sticks very closely to the novel but you've got the advantage of the kind of stuff they can do with special effects nowadays," Addy said. "They're going to make that time travel stuff just unbelievable and also the designs for the Eloi and the Morlocks. In the original they're a little ropey, but the stuff they can do now with prosthetics and make-up as well."

Addy goes on to reveal that he does not himself get involved with the main action of the film.

"I'm Philby, the friend of Guy Pearce's character," Addy lamented. "I stay at home. I don't get to do any of the fun stuff. I'm just there at the beginning and the end, so all my stuff's turn of the last century New York, stiff clothes and talking proper."

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