The Full Monty is a comedy-drama television miniseries. It is a follow-up to the 1997 film of the same name. It premiered on 14 June 2023 on FX on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Cast
Main
Robert Carlyle as Gary "Gaz" Schofield
Mark Addy as David "Dave" Horsfall
Lesley Sharp as Jean Horsfall
Hugo Speer as Guy
Paul Barber as Barrington "Horse" Mitchell
Steve Huison as Lomper
Paul Clayton as Dennis
Tom Wilkinson as Gerald Cooper. This was Wilkinson's final television role before his death in December 2023.
Recurring
Miles Jupp as Darren, a friend of the Monty gang and a bureaucrat
Talitha Wing as Destiny "Des" Schofield, Gaz's teenage daughter, Nathan's half-sister and Ben's aunt
Sophie Stanton as Hetty Baxter, a music teacher and Jean's best friend who turns on her
Aiden Cook as Dean "Twiglet" Blakefield, a boy Dave becomes a father figure to
William Snape as Nathan Schofield, Gaz's son, Destiny's half-brother and Ben's father
Lewis Whele as Ben Schofield, Nathan's son, Destiny's nephew and Gaz's grandson
Natalie Davies as Tabani, Des' friend who is very outgoing
Dominic Sharkey as Cal, Des' friend who is shy and introverted
Phillip Rhys Chaudhary as Dilip, Jean's deputy who has an affair with her
Joshua Jo as Sang-Chol, a bird enthusiast that befriends Lomper and Dennis
Tupele Dorgu as Yaz, Gaz's second ex-wife and Des' mother
William Fox as Brian, Yaz's despicable new boyfriend
Halima Ilter as Silvan, a Kurdistani refugee and Darren's love interest
Emily Bevan as Yvonne, Guy's pregnant, ditzy, fiancée
Susan Hilton as Margaret Baxter, Hetty's senile mother
Locations
The majority of the original film was shot in the Sheffield area, and the TV series production returned to the city. Some scenes were filmed in the city centre, Gleadless Valley, and the Meadowhall Shopping Centre. The production also took in locations in the Greater Manchester area, including Oldham and Bolton.
Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 67% approval rating with an average rating of 5.70/10, based on 28 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "The Full Monty threatens to reveal the emperor has no clothes in a silver screen transition that yields mostly diminishing returns, although there's still pleasure to be had in the company of these hardscrabble chums." Metacritic gave the series a weighted average score of 58 out of 100 based on 19 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".