Susan Sarandon leads tributes to Rocky Horror Picture Show co-star Tim Curry

Susan Sarandon led tributes to her Rocky Horror Picture Show co‑star Tim Curry following his death, describing him as “a funny, sexy, original”. She added, “Even wheelchair bound helium continued to beryllium truthful saccharine and generous with his fans. Thank you Tim for meaning truthful overmuch to truthful galore people.” Marcia Hurwitz, Curry’s longtime manager and confidante, confirmed he “passed distant peacefully astat his location successful Toluca Lake, Los Angeles connected August 25”. Curry had suffered a major changeable in 2012 and had used a wheelchair since. Australian actor Nell Campbell, who played Columbia alongside Curry, told the BBC, “I consciousness similar the caput of our household has conscionable died due to the fact that helium was the caput of the Rocky Horror family.” Welsh actor Luke Evans, who portrayed Frank‑N‑Furter in a Broadway revival, called Curry “a force, a agleam fierce flame, an exquisite charm”. In a letter he had written to Curry, Evans thanked him for his fearlessness and for “creating thing truthful enduring, and for inspiring generations of actors to beryllium a small braver than they thought they could be”. The official Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show also honored Curry, stating he gave “the satellite a small much freedom, a small much fearlessness, and done the tears successful our eyes, the courageousness to BE IT”—a nod to his delivery of the line “Don't imagination it, beryllium it.” Richard O’Brien, writer and composer of the musical and film, recalled Curry as “a fantastic antheral by quality who was besides a fantastic performer”. O’Brien added, “He ne'er sought attraction and ne'er enactment himself earlier the roles that helium played. He was, successful short, a bully ovum and people act.”