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David Byrne's cameo in Étoile (2025) - (S1E5: The Rat)

Amy Sherman-Palladino: “We had no connection to him. We wrote a letter. I’ve been a fan. I bought the first Talking Heads album, that’s how old I am, when it first came out,” Palladino continued. “We’ve seen all his Broadway stuff. We’re just gigantic fans of his. And we wrote a letter, we told him we’re shooting it in New York City, we told him he could ride his bike to the set, and he said yes.”

On the day of Byrne’s Étoile cameo, he rode his bike the the Brooklyn Library and the cast was admittedly starstruck. “I was just off camera, marveling at the fact. I used to listen to Talking Heads every day. I did not tell him that. But he’s cool, and he’s just like what you think he is,” Gideon Glick told Decider. “I said hi to him at the Brooklyn Library, and it was one of the more exciting moments of my day and life,” Luke Kirby added.

Gideon said that after seeing Byrne on a Zoom call from his apartment, the Étoile team recreated his background as a set in the Brooklyn Library basement, which admittedly “weirded out” the singer. “That’s his Zoom room!” Sherman-Palladino proudly confirmed. “He was a little freaked out. It felt a little stalker-y to him, but we did it anyhow.”

“He was saying, ‘That painting that you have on the wall, I actually bought the one I have on tour with the Talking Heads,'” Palladino added. “And he remembered exactly where he had bought it.” [Decider, 24 April 2025]