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And then there is the story of his association with Stuart Pearson Wright, who has painted the cover for The Late Hector Kipling. Bowled over by a Pearson Wright portrait at the BP awards, Thewlis remembered that the artist had previously written to him, asking him to sit for a portrait. 'So I met him, quite eccentric, nice hat, had a cane, quite formal in a jokey way, called me "My dearest Thewlis". He had a solo exhibition coming up and he said, "For the centrepiece of the exhibition, I'm going to paint a very big painting, it's going to be 15ft high, of you running naked through Soho." I'm like, "Really? Hmm! I'm quite busy! How are we going to do that?" He said it was OK, he had already painted himself - he is quite a similar build, tall, skinny - and he said he'd just put my head on top. I said that was fine.
So he did the picture, Tisbury Court [1999], and it goes on display: little strip joints and video shops and there's a guy in the gutter and Stuart's mother's in it, smoking a cigarette outside a brothel - and central to the whole thing is me, running scared through Soho. I get quite embarrassed looking at it. Being naked in a film doesn't bother me, but this is really embarrassing, even though it's not me. Everyone around me thinks it is: "Oh, marvellous! Well done!" A few weeks later, Stuart calls me and says, "Listen, I sold the painting." And he tells me the figure, and it's a lot of money, his best yet, and I felt quite proud of him. So I ask who bought it. And he's like, "Ah, yes - there is a problem." So I push him, and he says it's Jeffrey Archer, and that Jeffrey Archer has asked him round to decide where to put it. And I'm like, "Keep it out of the bedroom!" Shortly after, Archer went to prison, so we're not sure where it ended up.'
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