ONE-MAN SHOW
by Judy Rumbold
from Company
October 1985

CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT THROWS IN HIS LOINCLOTH

A Cross between The Little Prince and Mad Max...a kind of optimistic nutcase,' he explains, promptly dropping his Levi's to reveal prettily flowered boxer shorts. 'That is how I would describe my part in Subway.'

Christopher Lambert climbs into the first outfit for our fashion session with the weary abandon of a practised model. He shrugs on a jacket, perches a hat - 'I'm not so sure about this' - on the back of his tousled head and looks fantastic. He has the ability to wear clothes with the kind of disinterested ease that take anybody else hours to contrive.

"In all my films I play passionate, excessive characters, 'he says, with as much passion as a man can humanly muster after being roused from his slumbers by an overexcited, starstruck team dying to breathe the same air as the man who played Tarzan. He's been relieved of a good eight inches of the carefully nurtured mane he sported in Greystoke. 'I like it short and messy, ' he says, flinching slightly as dollops of pink and blue gel are employed for their gravity-defying qualities.

' I hate tight, restrictive clothing, ' says Christopher, squirming as we ply him with a clingy polo-neck. 'I like things that are baggy and comfortable.'

He reaches the height of baggy in his upcoming flim Highlander - in which he plays a passionate, kilted warrior. (A voice coach is helping to lure the frog from his very French throat.) 'I'm 450 years in the film.' he offers absentmindedly as he explores his now-solidified hair.' . . . An immortal!' he adds, pulling on a pink sock with enthusiasm, and warming to his new-found modeling career.