Sir John Hurt also played this character in the television movie The Naked Civil Servant (1975). Quentin Crisp said of Sir John Hurt, that he was his representative here on Earth.
This movie could be considered a sequel to The Naked Civil Servant (1975).
A continuation concerning the latter part of his life in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s.
The original film that this is a sequel to, 'The Naked Civil Servant' (1975) is directly referred to in the script by Phillip Steele (Denis O'Hare). Steele tells Crisp that watching that film on television as a young man was what influenced him to come out of the closet. Apart from the obvious fact that John Hurt also played the part of Crisp in that film, this could also be seen as a post modernist joke, especially as earlier in the film the character of Crisp says that he doesn't believe in post-modernism.