Stephen Fry playing Oscar Wilde while dissecting Oscar Wilde? The meta we didn't deserve.
Stephen Fry discusses Oscar Wilde in relation to Wilde (1997) the biopic in which he starred as Wilde, released that same year.
Acting
Fry's lived-in Wilde — he *becomes* the man he portrayed.
Writing
Wildean wit deployed to explain Wilde himself.
Director
Richard Leyland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the UK's Section 28 era, this doubled as quiet activism — Fry refusing to let Wilde be erased.
Fry had already played Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas on radio before this film — he was deep in the Wilde-verse.
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