I love Shaun Micallef. This is his bit from the Bad Eggs press release:
“The prospect of working with Tony Martin and Mick Molloy was like a dream come true. I loved watching these guys on TV when I was a kid, so just meeting them - let alone actually working with them - was exciting to say the least. I was extraordinarily disappointed when we did end up meeting however. Mick was a lot shorter than I’d imagined and pretty much drunk most of the time. He tried to kiss me more than once.
Tony was worse; hopped up on amphetamines and marching around in jodhpurs and a pith helmet screaming instructions through a loudhailer - it was like working for Eric Von Stroheim. “Act faster!!” he shrieked at poor half-dead Bill Hunter at one point. Bill wasn’t even working that day; Tony was yelling at his picture in Showcast. Insane. And the way he treated the other actors; calling them ‘Swine’ and electrocuting them if they didn’t visit him in his trailer and ‘perform’ for him. I am ashamed to be associated with the film. It was like Fitzcarraldo except without so many laughs. We came to blows more than once. Tony and I. The script was no good and I told him so. I did some re-writes and vastly improved it, particularly my scenes. Bob Franklin was pretty much as I’d remembered him from the old Jimeoin days - woefully unfunny. The whole thing made me pine for the days when I worked with Julia Morris. I must say however that Judith Lucy was a delight - although I did end up contracting gonorrhea from her”
