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London, England | England
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Best Supporting Actress | 1987 | Vanessa
Best Screenplay | 1988 | Alan
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1988 | Vanessa
Best Actor | 1988 | Gary
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1988 | Vanessa
Best Screenplay Adapted | 1988 | Alan
Best Foreign Film | 1988 | Stephen
Best Supporting Actress | 1988 | Vanessa
Best Supporting Actress | 1987 | Vanessa
As well as being an actor, Wallace Shawn (John Lahr) is an acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. Until her 1991 death, his theatrical agent was Margaret Ramsay, who was also Joe Orton's agent and appeared in this movie as the character played by Vanessa Redgrave.
Sir Ian McKellen turned down an offer to play Kenneth Halliwell, a role that went to Alfred Molina. McKellen has said that he lived to regret that decision.
The title is a naughty pun ("Prick" having both standard and off-color denotations and "Ears" being an anagram for the British spelling of a vulgar anatomical descriptor).
Kenneth Halliwell created the title "Prick Up Your Ears" for Orton's (never produced) movie for The Beatles called "Up Against It", but Orton said: "This is much too good a title to waste on a film."
Kenneth Halliwell was actually 25 years old when he first met 18-year-old Joe Orton at RADA. Orton was too young to be conscripted for military service during WWII, but Halliwell was called up in July 1944, when he was 18. He told the draft board that he was a conscientious objector and was instead sent to work in a Lancashire coal mine for the rest of the war.
"[Halliwell puts his hand on Orton's leg. Orton brushes it off] Joe Orton: No. Have a wank. Kenneth Halliwell: Have a wank? Have a wank? I can't just have a wank. I need three days' notice to have a wank. You can just stand there and do it. Me, it's like organizing D-Day. Forces have to be assembled, magazines bought, the past dredged for some suitably unsavoury episode, the dog-eared thought of which can still produce a faint flicker of desire! Have a wank, it'd be easier to raise the Titanic."
"Kenneth Halliwell: I can't remember when you last touched my cock. Well, I can actually. It was about two years ago. Only I can't remember the actual date. Pity. I could have put it in my diary. "The last time Joe touched my cock. Grouse shooting begins""
