#richard's interview

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

And that is why they were all (except for Till) bawling their eyes out during last show - they already decided the band was done. 2024 dates literally came out of nowhere and I'm pretty darn sure they decided to split during allegations, Till was done then and they did 2004 as a farewell.

I feel so bad for Richard, Paul, Oli, Flake and Schneider not because it ended but how it ended.

Maybe you're right, at the time i figured it was a bit sadness at the stadiumtour ending after the 5 year stint (when indeed they only had intended 3 or 4 years) and maybe also a bit of relief that the 2024 tour went so much better and relaxter than the 2023 one 🌺

I know many read finality in those quotes from Richard's recent interview, and who knows, it might be. Personally i got a vibe of keeping all options open from him, just like from the little chat Paul had with a few fans at one of the last shows in 2024. No touring this year, although we would have all loved that, it wasn't really a surprise, as the tour was already a bit longer than expexted, and Rammstein have always liked to alternate touring years with 'creating years', especially with our guys the six men marriage, there are some who like the creating more, some who like the touring more. And espexially 2023 must have been taxing for them all, and all in a different way, so it is a good idea to give eachother space and time to deal with it, each in their own way.

Personally i don't necessarily think it's the end of Rammstein. The band have always done things according to their own schedule. There were 10 years between album 6 and 7, and after dropping hints for years that maybe, possibly there would be a 7th album to come...i bet many fans at the time never thought it would happen (Zeit really is a gift i never expected to happen)

The guys have taken time off from eachother before, Richard even lived half a world away for years, and the Mutter years could have easily been the end right there and then. I think they mentioned in an old interview that they would always meet once a year, but there were years in the past when the one time really was the only in that year. The band might have called it quits in the early 2000's, around 2015, and maybe several times in between.

Even if they would call it quits now, i'm glad we got two albums (Untitled and Zeit) and a wonderful stadiumtour, with lots of fun on stage, and more interactions than ever in the 20 years before. A live DVD would be a great present, especially because the last live DVD (Paris) was (imo) not showing Rammstein at their live best, which is a real shame for the best live band in the world 🔥

But gotta say...i think there's more to come...Rammstein like to change things, to surprise us, to shake things up a bit before they get bored 🌺 Let's give them time to live their own lives for now... 🍀

That house that Richard mentioned, unlike the country they grew up in and that they have lost: that house will always be there when they are ready to come back to it and to eachother 🌺

[zegalba]

Lily-Rose Depp for Interview Magazine (2024) Photography: Richard Kern

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

i was thinking today...actually what he said sounds very much like something Paul would say:

- an elaborate analogy (not just the usual 'six men marriage')

- some reality seeping through, without pointing fingers or throwing shade

- looking to some things to come (Richard: dvd, Paul: documentary) and using 'we' (and not just 'i' or 'my' as Richard would often do in the past)

- and pretty chill with what is happening, going with the flow, while also letting us know actually getting involved with how the flow flows

now if we could just get a webcam into that 'house with six rooms'

It would have been nice to reach your wonderful conclusion without some in the fandom dismissing Richard as "an unreliable dramatic narrator". So disrespectful! 😡 I wish more got your point without being assholes about it!

well, Richard has always been overly dramatic, and some are used to calling him just that 😅 unfortunately i can’t control how people see him, everyone’s got their own version of him 🤷🏻‍♀️

but to me, these recent interviews feel like a breath of fresh air! he seems truly calm and happy, finally free from any pressure, just doing what he wants. Isn’t that just wonderful? 🥰

[savagegood]

sometimes the knowledge you gain on twitter is both blessed and cursed

also his likes are sending me:

[mdawgswizzleinthehizzle]

not her literally tearing up over how good of a person pedro is.

this man has set the bar into another universe.

[a-state-of-bliss]

Interview April 1987 - Lisa Bonet by Richard Bernstein

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Good Omens Finale spoiler! :)

Michael Sheen on the Scarred for Life podcast :) <3 (24.3.2025)

Michael: I went online and went on this auction - I am now the owner of the nose that Olivier wore as Richard III in that film. That thing that haunted me from being a child. I now have it. And not only that. I have worn it in something. There is a bit in the last part of Good Omens that I've just finished filming where my character has to be in disguise and I wear Olivier's nose from Richard III.

Wow! Disguises in the Finale! That explains them looking peculiar in the Edinburgh filming :D <3

This was the auction:

Well, that is a mighty nose! :)

[martanis]

CHARLIE VICKERS and the CAST of THE RINGS OF POWER for EW (in which he admits to having galadriel's theme on heavy rotation)

[kvothes]

richard siken interviewed by zack strait + five new poems

[k-wame]

GLEN POWELL Interview - 'HIT MAN' Texas Premiere · 15 May, 2024

[firsttarotreader]

Pedro for Interview Magazine (2014), by Anthony Batista.

One of his sexiest photoshoots ever! 🥵

[zegalba]

Lily-Rose Depp for Interview Magazine (2024) Photography: Richard Kern

[grogumaximus]

On the eve of what might be the hardest fought championship of his career opening in Melbourne this weekend one thing is clear, Max Verstappen will not go gently into that night. The defending Formula One world champion, never one to shy away from speaking his mind, a compelling character trait reflected in his driving, is eyeballing the opposition and demanding they bring it on.

The 27-year-old took his fourth consecutive F1 title last season, the toughest since his first, the titanic battle with Lewis Hamilton that ended controversially in Abu Dhabi, in 2021. In both, when the Dutchman was pushed to the limit, to scrap tooth and nail, he was uncompromising, an elbows-out battler, obdurate, driven by belief in himself and the righteousness of the Verstappen cause.

Out of the car his generally easy-going persona belies this steel but it is there in the eyes and the conviction of his voice. As he leans back to consider his attitude to racing, to quote Rotten, J, he means it, man. 

“I do whatever is needed,” he says, with finality. “I try to always go for it when I think it’s right to do so.

“It’s just how I am. I will always go for it when I think it’s possible, whatever other people call it. You might agree with it or not but I just battle the way I think I need to battle.”

His acknowledgment that some diverge from his opinion is a concession to the debate sparked whenever Verstappen is feisty on the track. Depending on the viewpoint, he is a rare, exceptional, misunderstood genius and there are no shortage of fans who subscribe to this. Or ranging from reckless and even dangerous, as many concluded when he clashed with Hamilton at Monza taking them both out in 2021, to unsporting and contemptuous of rules, as his protagonist last season, McLaren’s Lando Norris, certainly believed when he was the victim of aggressive attacking and defending in Mexico last year.

But, well, whatever. Because Verstappen does not care. The criticism that such driving tarnishes his reputation is the gnawing of gnats on an elephant hide. 

“I don’t tell you or someone else how they should live their lives or what they should do in life,” he says. “Everyone should just focus on themselves. I think my behaviour is good. If someone else disagrees, that’s their problem. It’s not my problem, is it?”

As F1 prepares for a 24-race season the issue is more pertinent than ever. He will probably face an almighty scrap, not least from Norris and his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, with Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari and Mercedes all looking to join the party while Red Bull, on the early form in Melbourne, have still to solve the problems that wrecked their car for the second half of last year.

"I will always go for it when I think it’s possible ... It’s just how I am"

Yet Verstappen has beaten them all over the past four seasons and for two of those, 2022 and 2023, was imperious. His driving style was barely discussed because he was so quick, so consistent and so relentless.

Success has come at a price, though. At the F175 launch event last month in London, to celebrate the sport’s 75th anniversary and open the new season, Verstappen was roundly booed. He has declined to enter into a debate on why the crowd reacted as it did. However, he was forthright on considering why some do not appreciate his achievements.

 “They’re just jealous. Jealous of success,” he says.

“My dream was to get to F1 and be successful. I’ve achieved that and people that can’t appreciate that, they’re jealous. So that’s fine for them. But it’s not correct, because jealousy doesn’t bring you anywhere in life. I don’t do it for the people, I’m not there to please people that don’t appreciate me.”

This is Verstappen writ large and it must be considered a fundamental factor in why he is a four-time champion. You cannot look through F1’s history without finding greats who shared such iron-willed conviction, not least Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher.

“You create your own success,” Verstappen says. “And I’ve created my own success with very important people around me. Of course, part of that success is with the team. All these people that I’m working with and that are close to me, they value that success. That’s what it’s about. And I am very happy with what I have achieved in this sport. That is the most important thing.”

His honesty is striking and endearing. Verstappen, like Hamilton, is unafraid of putting himself out there just as he is, for all that such an unapologetic attitude could vex those who have taken against him.

Last year, when the team’s performance fell away mid‑season, he was unequivocal in his disapproval, describing his ride as an “undriveable monster” and demanding Red Bull remedy it forthwith. Very much part of a frank relationship he enjoys with the team. No one inside Red Bull has anything but positive words to say about Verstappen and a belief he is driven only by a desire for them all to succeed. During the travails of last season what was perceived as a clash between driver and team was part of this process.

“My relationship with them didn’t change because we are always very honest with each other,” he says. “If I make a mistake it’s also said. We have a very open relationship, we’re very straightforward. So when it’s good it’s good, when it’s bad it’s bad. That’s how we approach it. That works the best if you want to perform at the highest level.”

It is hard not to wonder if that level of honesty can be uncomfortable or even painful?

“Not for me,” is Verstappen’s unsurprisingly blunt response. “It’s how I grew up. When things need to be said, they are said. Some people take that a bit more easy, it’s a personality thing but overall it is well received. We are all part of the process.”

When Verstappen made his debut in F1 at 17 years old, he was its youngest ever driver. There followed a steep learning curve, not all of it pretty and not all of it edifying, but pretty much impossible to ignore. A period that forged him such that he insists he would change nothing of those formative years. 

“It’s important that you make certain mistakes in life and some bits that hurt,” he says.

“In terms of missing out on a result or making a mistake, it’s important to have that hunger to try to improve. If you know everything in advance, how to do it correctly, it’s very boring. You make some mistakes, it’s not nice at the time, but sometimes you need a hard lesson to become better.”

Compelling as a man and driver, however you regard him, he enlivens the sport and his rivals go into 2025 knowing too well, given all those hard lessons learned, Verstappen will only go down fighting. Who would have it any other way?

[bleedingcoffee42]

Okay, could mean nothing.

[mdawgswizzleinthehizzle]

this whole sequence is so 😭 pedro’s giggle, the improv joke, mark being so real for what he did

[musicandotherstuff]

"He is, self-evidently, a genius" Richard Ayoade about Alex Turner

🎥: tortoise