#2018 interview

"what’s that one interview where Calum is all “he ain’t worth your time girl”"

That would be the "Agony Uncles" advice video from 2018! The part you're looking for is about 50 seconds in 😌

Note: Translated via Google Translate, some films I recognise despite the translation not doing a very good job of it so I’ll mark them via *

The visionary Christoph of The Truman Show, the Nazi sniper of Enemy at the Gates or General Hummel of The Rock have one thing in common: the eyes of an intense blue of Ed Harris, Grand Prix of Honor of the Sitges Festival and is a presence that always raises the quality of the films in which it acts. Educated and kind, he even apologized to Donald Trump yesterday: "I am ashamed and apologize for the current government of the United States, a terrible, disturbing and sad government." 

What made him want to become an actor?

As a young man, my life was focused only on sports, but in college I realized that my career as an athlete had no future. Then I saw an actor perform a couple of plays in the theater and he was amazing in the two, which were very different. Everyone stood up and applauded, and I thought, "I want to do this too."

Is there any role you would like to play before retiring?

There is a book, Lie Down in Darkness, by William Styron. I'd love to play Dad, but I'm probably too old. Maybe 20 years from now, if I'm still here, I wouldn't mind playing King Lear. But what I most want to do is direct. I haven't directed a film in nine years and in March I will start shooting The Plougmen, starring Robert Duvall, based on a novel by Kim Zupan.

You like to prepare the papers a lot. What is your method?

It depends. If it's real people like John Glenn or General Patton, who I will play in two weeks, I'll investigate the character. But basically the script is the bible. How it moves, how it reacts, and so on. You try to gather all the information about the character, either by reading or through imagination.

Are there any titles in your career that you think deserve more resonance?

Last year I made a film about a photographer, Kodachrome, who hasn't seen many people, but I'm very happy with my job. Frontera is another independent film, it is set on the border with Mexico and I think it is a great film. And The Irish Clan (*State of Grace) too.

It will be in Top Gun 2, which has a good director and spectacular casting.

Yes, it will be shot in November, but I've already shot a couple of scenes from the beginning with Tom [Cruise]. I haven’t worked with him since The Firm, so I really enjoy it.

He has hardly done comedy. One of the exceptions is Milk money, for which he was nominated in 1995 for a Worst Razzie. Was it taken as a sign that comedy was not his forte?

Actually, a lot of people approach me to tell me that they are fans of Milk money. I'd love to make comedies, but they don't offer any of them, and look, I have a sense of humor. I had a great time shooting Milk money and did a handful of comedies in the theater, but it's not quite the same, they're different media.

*Ed was not nominated for a Razzie in 1995 but the script was nominated for Worst Screenplay 

He is often described as one of those actors who, even in a supporting role, ends up stealing the scene. Have you ever had an actor steal the show from you?

No [rotund]. And if it had happened to me, I wouldn't have told you!

I see that he does have a sense of humor.

[Laughs.] I don't really know if I've ever been in the situation you say. Let me think for a moment and I'm sure some examples will come to mind.

Jeffrey Wright shot the first season of Westworld without knowing he was a robot. Did you know the arc of your character?

No, the first year there were a lot of surprises. The second year I knew more or less what would happen and from the third year I have no idea. Jonathan and Lisa Nolan believe that it is better for the actors to know nothing about the future of the characters. But look, I do theater. And in the theater you do the same text every night for months and you know everything that’s going to happen, it’s part of the job. So I'd rather get to know my character than find out on the go.

Can Westworld become the new Game of Thrones?

I don’t think anything can become the new Game of Thrones, but Westworld is very popular, and it’s nice to be on a show that so many people like. It was also nice to be nominated for Emmys, the problem is that there are a lot of series, about 400. And no one sees them all. There are a lot of actors who do extraordinary things and don't get any recognition. It’s ridiculous to nominate just six performers.

Would you like to make a cameo in any of these 400 series?

Dan is talking about DMC5 at 1:22 xD

"I heard that DMC5 is coming out... In case that the're any DMC fans out there. I don't know anything else about it, except that it might be epic."

Yeah he only heard about it...

ONLY HEARD...

“I think people should listen to my music if you wanna be honest with yourself about the way you're feeling.”

Tattoo.com interview Jamie and Sam at Northern Invasion Festival

Interviewer: Everybody, it’s Mischievous Mel and it’s DAY ONE at Northern Invasion with COUNTERFEIT!

Sam: Woo!

Jamie: Fuck yeah right. Here we are.

Interviewer: Yes. And sir, you are?

Jamie: I’m Jamie.

Interviewer: And you do what in the band?

Jamie: I play and I sing.

Interviewer: Very awesome. You sing beautifully.

Sam: My name’s Sam and I play guitar.

Interviewer: Okay, not only did they play awesome, I’m going to let out a little secret. I was at Rebellion last week and they have these things called Zippo sessions where it’s acoustic. Any band that can do acoustic that’s like taking your clothes off and walking naked down the hallway at school. You guys fucking nailed it. It was a little bit sad though.

Jamie: Thank you. It was a sad yeah, well you know, the content of our songs is a little deep. But I like the analogy of walking through the hallway at school naked. I used to do that anyways so. The zippo session was kinda easy I guess in that sense. 

Interviewer: Well, ladies. You want to go back to school? Whaaaaat. I didn’t say that. I’m probably old enough to be your grandma. Anywho, you guys are well, new to me. And I was shocked, I’m just going to say it, without sounding like a bitch because you are in the other side of entertainment. Television.. Movies.. So I was wondering, is this the kind of band where it’s like ‘oh I’m an actor so I’m just gonna sing and people are going to like it because I’m me.’ So when I went in, I was like ‘alright, can they do it?’ You guys fucking did it! I came out like OH MY GOD. And people were like what? ‘Cos we see a lot of bands.

Jamie: Yeah, I’m sure. 

Interviewer: Over 400 a year at least. There are very few that are new or stick out. You guys definitely stuck out.

Jamie: That’s fucking great. That’s good to hear. I’ve been playing music since I was like born basically. I’ve been playing shows since I was 15 years old, I used to play drums in an indie band back home in London. I used to sneak out of school and play sets on the weekend. So this has been in my blood, it was always something I was doing but never took it massively seriously because, I don’t know it was such a personal thing for me to go up there and do it properly. It was a scary fucking thought. So when we finally decided to do it properly, to have Sam, my brother and my best friend since I was 8 years old to be in the band it’s like of course this shit’s real like, we love music we live and we breathe this shit like if we didn’t love it we wouldn’t be doing this. 

Interviewer: Like I said, I was really excited to see you and I loved the music, like you said it was heavy and very deep. And I did almost cry. That last song blew me away. What is your take on all this? And I love the fact that you guys are brothers.

Sam: It’s been sick. We’ve kind of been touring since we brought out the first record non stop. Just trying to get the word out. Show people we mean business, and not really here to fuck around I guess. So yeah, we’ve just been getting out, playing show after show. We came to America 3 weeks ago for our first tour here. Which has been amazing. Been mental so far. Keep on pushing till we can no longer physically stand up I guess

Jamie: Which seems to be relatively soon, my legs are fucked already. We played Chicago last night so it could have been that. Chicago could have got us.

Interviewer: What’s the difference between shows and festivals there for you guys and things here?

Jamie: Here, kids seem to go hard from the word go, they just seem to want to get stuck in and that’s fucking great., Back home we’re a little bit more reserved. It’s like ‘oh well this is nice, yes okay I can get into this oh i’m starting to mosh how lovely’ where as here it’s like craziness from the onset. We saw that at Carolina Rebellion, that pit opened up second song in, I’m like hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about.

Interviewer: So to be fair, if I went over to your country.. They’d be terrified, hold me at arms length and call for 911?

Jamie: Yes, absolutely. You’d be locked up in a matter of seconds. That’s why we’ve had to come here cos it nearly happened to us.

Interviewer: You guys are great. I am super stoked. Do you guys have any ink that you want to share with us?

Jamie: Uh yeah, I’ve got my fingers tattooed by Dr Woo. A friend of mine was getting something done by him in LA. I was like I need to get something done by this guy, not only does he work at sham rock but he also works with Mark Mahoney, like the fucking guy created black and white fine line art in the west coast, it’s incredible. He’s like a full on west coast boss. He managed to sort me out with these. I’ve got some stuff by Valerie Vargas as well on my legs

Interviewer: We’re not afraid for you to take off anything that you want, I don’t mean that to sound creepy. I’ve had bands drop their pants.

Jamie: I can’t even roll up my jeans they’re so fucking tight. 

Sam: We slept through the night so I’m not sure you want to see that.

Jamie: Stinks.

Interviewer: Ladies I tried, and guys if you’re into that I tried.

Jamie: Blimey if you really want to see it, should I get that one out? My favourite one, it’s gotta be this guy. Bob Dylan right here. I had this done when I was, how old was I.. 17 it was with my friend Ivan. Actually, who the song Letters To The Lost is about. We were up in Camden getting drunk together. And he was a massive classical music fan,  so he was like, you get Dylan cos you love Dylan and I’ll get Beethoven. I was like this sounds amazing. I went first, I got Bob Dylan, and obviously he didn’t fucking go and get Beethoven. I’m sitting on the train or trying to sit on the train home like oh my god it was my first tattoo. I thought my whole butt cheek was going to fall off.

Interviewer: How about you, any ink on you sir?

Sam: I’ve gone for my legs so far, I’ve got a bunch of traditional, we went to Frith Street where me and J go to get some stuff done. Got a lot of stuff done in Copenhagen. Mostly traditional stuff, but I’m starting on my legs before I get a big snake on my head or something and go full out. 

Jamie: You and your mates though decided you’d make a machine though right?

Sam: Yeah I fell in with a crowd in Copenhagen, that decided they would tattoo each other constantly. All the time, whenever. So you’d go around their house for a couple of drinks, they’d be like ‘let’s just get it out, get the machine out and start doing it.’ So terrible decision. They’ve done my toes. Stuff like that. Toes took about an hour. In-between each toe I was like fuck this, no more. And they just ended up carrying on. 

Interviewer: Was it at least good experimental stuff, or is it something where you say ‘I love my friends a lot because I let them do this to me.’