John Barrowman (If Doctor Who Hadn’t Saved Him)
Have you ever wondered what John Barrowman would be doing if he hadn’t been cast in Doctor Who (and subsequently in Torchwood)? In our next episode, we talk about his role in 2002’s direct-to-dvd Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
From the CGI to the script, this movie is 100% awful, but it’s worth seeing just for this unexpected line from John Barrowman. [NSFW unless you're wearing headphones.]
Embedding for that video was “disabled by request”, but not from John Barrowman. He proudly displays the movie on his official site:
Filmed in Bulgaria in 2001, Megalodon has become a B-movie cult classic and features an ad-lib from John that has achieved legendary status among the movie’s fans.
The story is that he just made that line up on the spot as a joke on his co-star, but they left it in the movie. My guess is that no one noticed. Watch these clips, and you’ll understand how easily that could have happened:
And of course, the inexplicable Sparta remix:
May 10th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Here’s John Barrowman talking about this film (and that line)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_XKsJ_emog
May 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
The Wossy interview that Jakbo1978 links is from 2006. Here’s another interview from this past Feb., by which point JB had realized that he’d be asked about Shark Attack 3 in any interview airing late enough to talk about it. The story has gotten a tad more colorful by this point.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=onWjxc95E5M
The movie isn’t mentioned until nearly seven minutes in, but the whole interview is one of his best.
Btw, if you haven’t seen the unedited version of the movie, you have to check it out. As I understand it, not only does the edit dub over that famous line, it also leaves out one of the funniest, most awkward sex scenes I’ve ever seen. I’m sure JB is a good enough actor that he can convincingly portray het sex on screen, but that was not going to happen with this particular actress.