George Wayne: Gustav Von Wagenheim, your charcter in Shadow of the Vampire, provides much needed comic relief.
Eddie Izzard: I play a bad actor, and if I do that well, it's kind of worrying.G.W. What about your relationship with the other actors? Especially Willem Dafoe, who is really something to see in this film.
E.I. When I met him on the set he was in full Nosferatu gear, looking really spooky And I thought, Shit, he's doing that full-Method New York Stuff. And then he turned around and said, "Hello, Eddie," with a cheery expression. And John Malkovich was very John Malkovich. It was quite weird being up a mountain in Luxembourg with those two, sitting in a tent. It was quite spooky film to shoot.G.W. You obviously must get teased a lot about your last name.
E.I. No one actually teased me about it, except at school, and I'd always hit them. It's generally fine, except everyone thinks I'm from outer space.G.W. Maybe not from outer space, but you are an eccentric Englishman who tends to favor wearing women's clothes.
E.I. It's been writen down to eccentricity, but actually I'm just a tranvestite, an ordinary, boring transvestite.G.W. A boring transvestite. Talk about incongruous. You've defined ourself as a male lesbian who just happens to be heterosexual.
E.I. I'm a male lesbian or a heterosexual transvestite.G.W. When did you realize you liked wearing women's clothes?
E.I. When I was four. A kid down the road would wear his sister's clothes, and I remember thinking I would be up for that.G.W. Have you ever thought about designing your own tranny wardrobe?
E.I. No, I would be crap at that. I think it's best to let other people design it.G.W. A transvestite who just happens to be very butch. You are not a femme tranny at all.
E.I. I'm a cross between a butch and a femme lesbian.G.W. You perform all over the world. Have you ever trolled the streets of New York in drag?
E.I. I go through customs and immigration wearing a skirt suit and knee boots. They'll check the computers and see that I'm a comedian. They always let me in.G.W. What's the difference between the Eddie Izzard onstage and the Eddie Izzard at his Notting Hill home in his negligee?
E.I. Onstage it's a heightened version of me. I am kinda quieter and more boring offstage. I talk alot of crap onstage; offstage I odn't talk so much crap.G.W. Have you ever had an audience with the Queen?
E.I. No, I don't dig the monarchy. It's an antiquated idea. These people have a ton of cash, and they go around opening things. They are like locksmiths.G.W. Are you currently with a significant other?
E.I. Yes I have a signifcant other, but I never talk about her much. I happen to be straight, and there is a girlfriend.G.W. But you've also said you would consider having a sex-change operation.
E.I. Yes, then I would be just a lesbian. Does that make sense? I am a male lesbian--I have a bloke's body, but I'd be quite happy to be a woman who fancies other women.G.W. Have you tried having sex wih men?
E.I. I've mentally tried to think, Are there any blokes here that I am attracted to? And there are some blokes that I look at and think they are good-looking, but I'm not attracted to them. I don't want to have sex with them.G.W. What is your favorite part of the anatomy?
E.I. Breasts. I'm definitely a breast transvestite.