During filming of The Company of Wolves, production required an actor to play the devil driving a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce through an imagined forest, chauffeured by Rosaleen. Andy Warhol initially attracted interest for the role but preferred to shoot in New York while recovering from a shooting. Casting then selected Terence Stamp for his pale-blue eyes and charming, dangerous presence. Anton Furst designed a Ruritanian forest with trees like flayed musculature and a split oak resembling a high-heeled shoe. In the filmed sequence, Stamp is driven by Sarah Patterson, cradles a shrivelled infant skull, and offers a phial to a man seeking to become a wolf.
And we had a problem. With Angela Carter, I had written a scene where the devil drives a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce through an imaginary forest, chauffeured by the young dreamer Rosaleen, played by Sarah Patterson. My initial thought was for Andy Warhol to play the devil. Those pale-blue eyes and that blank expression framed by the blond wig. Andy read the script and liked it.
There were trees with bark like the musculature of flayed animals. There was an enormous split oak, the roots of which mimicked a high-heeled shoe. Terence was driven through it in a pale Rolls-Royce, by Sarah Patterson in a platinum blonde wig, dressed in a cream-coloured chauffeur's suit. He held the shrivelled skull of a long dead infant in his hand.
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