

But as director Neil Jordan says on the commentary track for the film (at about the same point as the scene begins) he had neglected to tell Davidson that this scene would be in the movie or ask him if he would be willing to do it until the day of shooting. By far the movie’s most famous moment is one where the protagonist, played by Stephen Rea, is shown that Davidson is indeed actually a man.

Jaye Davidson, in his screen debut, played the transvestite lover of a British soldier in The Crying Game. So any of you aspiring writers who want to be bestsellers like him… well, it worked for him, didn’t it? 8. As he describes,“(his) penis was spared, but (his) testicles turned into stoplights.”Ĭuriously, he mentions this horrible testicular happenstance in his book On Writing, which is half a book of writing instruction and half a memoir of how he became the writer he is today. Stephen had to go to the bathroom, but his companions would not wait for him to go to the bathroom back home, so they recommended he simply go off into the woods, suggesting he wipe with leaves. When he was about six years old, Stephen was out with his brother Dave and a friend. He broke up with his girlfriend the next day. Hen then heard what he described as a sizzle that sounded like hamburger on a grill. When that happened, he was holding up his penis so that he could use the blow dryer on the underside and the end of his penis fell into blow dryer wires. He claimed it worked very well until someone tried to come into the bathroom and startled him. There was a blow dryer handy, so he experimented with using the blow dryer on his whole body. That night Jillette took a shower, and upon finishing, found that there were no towels in the bathroom. As soon as they had broken up and she flew away, he felt a strong need to reunite with her, but she was staying with one of her gal pals who hated him at the time, so he flew out to spend the night with them. As he described on his radio show on January 3, 2007, around 1980, Penn Jillette was breaking up with a girlfriend.
