Audio ON 🔊 Funny bit from Fran Healy's conversation with Daniel Brühl for the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival. This is Daniel elaborating on what it was like seeing himself on the big screen for the first time.
I love this interview. He's totally engaged and relaxed because he's mostly just shooting the shit with a friend. The convo is mostly centered around cinema and their relationship with it but through it, you get a glimpse of Daniel's life as a dad, as a celeb, and as a teenager. Even talks about his first date at one point.
My favorite part though was when they discussed something I've always wondered about: being in (what turns out to be) an awful movie and having to promote it.
Here are excerpts from Daniel's candid answer:
"That is the worst part. If you have to sell it. You have this rotten carpet. You have to sell this shit, it's terrible. It's soul-destroying. It's part of the game. You have to be professional. But God, I have sat in hotel rooms afterwards with maybe a good single malt whiskey and thinking, like, what the hell happened to this film? Why did I accept to do it in the first place? And then looking back, I still know in each case why."
"...it's just part of the game. It's also the fascination because it's unpredictable. You never know if it's gonna work out or not, even if you have a good script, even if you have a talented filmmaker, so much can happen on the way. But God, yes, there are stinkers in my life."
He never mentions the titles of course, but I bet The Face of an Angel was at the top of his mind 😅
This week on the Kyle Meredith With... podcast, I'll be joined by the cast of #WomenInBlue, The Serpent Queen's Samantha Morton, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
And on 91.9 WFPK, I'm hanging with #Yungblud, the Eels, Kylie Cantrall, Travis' Fran Healy, & Kate Siegel!
Watching old live sets from Travis and I am THRILLED to finally see them live again this September after like 15 years or so. I've listened to Travis for like 22/23 years and I love love love these people. Wholeheartedly from a human to human perspective (not romantically).
Especially Fran Healy is the cutest man on the whole planet. He is so cute. Ugh.
Michael lived on the other side
Dreamed he was an only child
Wake up screaming in the middle of night
Danced with the devil on the dark side
We got married in a Vegas bar
With confetti on the dance floor
No tin cans trailing from behind a car
Throwing quarters out the back door
Sing me to sleep tonight
Sing me to sleep tonight
No memory tonight
Sing me to sleep tonight
Under cover
One of the other
Sing me to sleep tonight
(I wanna hold you but it's just too late now)
Sing me to sleep tonight
(I wanna hear you say it's all gonna be alright)
No memory tonight
(I wanna hold you but it's just too late now)
Sing me to sleep tonight
(I wanna hear you say it's all gonna be alright)
Travis will release their 10th album this July! I had no idea! I'm super excited ❤️
Jfyi, I'm a huge Travis fan for like 23 years or so. Been listening to them so often so many times. Had a huge crush on Dougie as a young teenager lol, Fran Healy is one of the most wonderful song writers in the world etc etc. I know all of their songs, b-sides, they carried me through so many difficulties and are just wonderful!
LOVE them indefinitely 😍
So I got the mail and instantly threw my money at them with a pre-order.