I ❤️ that gif of Joe. “Blah blah fucking bollocks!” 🥰😂
How he looks in that reminds me of how his football coach described him with the hair and no urgency to his play - he has never changed. And he’s just so pretty!!
When he plays drunk and stoned, he looks drunk and stoned. I’ve never seen that—his eyes go stoned ... Well, he’s brilliantly cast because of the reserved nature. Joe isn’t nearly as reserved as Nick, but it’s a tendency to let others have the floor. He just tends to be more interested in everyone else, what they’re saying, which is a lovely quality. I have a special affinity for Joe because I feel like we criticize ourselves in a similar way. I could see, at times, him thinking or shaking his head and just really trying his hardest. That’s how I feel I approach it.
Jemima Kirke on her experience working with Joe as a scene partner and colleague [source: Vogue]
obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always. - @currentlycryingaboutlancelot
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Footage from interviews for The Beatles Anthology EPKs, and Today Tonight (Australia), 1995. Courtesy of YouTube.
“It’s just some little magic that… you know, when you get certain people together, it produces — you know, it makes fire.” - George Harrison, EPK interview
Q: “One of the songs, ‘Free As A Bird,’ that John recorded on mono. He’s playing the piano. How difficult was it melding the three surviving Beatles with John?”
George: “Yeah. It was… it just took a little time, really. It was pretty tricky, because what we did was, at first, we took his cassette… because it was only a demo, and it was unfinished, it kind of — he was just plodding along and in some places he’d go quicken up a bit, and some places he’d slow down. And we put all the backing in, did all the singing, and Paul and I wrote some words to the middle part that John had never finished. And we did the totally new record, in fact. And then we just took his voice, and we dropped it in, every line where we needed it, until we built up, you know, the lead vocal part.”Q: “Sean Lennon said it was spooky having a dead guy as lead singer. Did you find it spooky?”
George: “It’s not, it’s not spooky, but… if, I don’t know if this has ever happened to you — if you think that, you know, we all, when we’re alive, when you hear our music, you hear our voices, but the moment somebody dies, it’s suddenly eerie, you know. Whether it’s John Lennon or Ayrton Senna. You know, just the idea, when you hear him speak, it suddenly is… is very emotional.” - Today Tonight, 1995
“One of the things that’s a little bit heartbreaking is that the player at the end, the ukulele player, banjo, whatever you want to call it. George wanted to play that part and I resisted, saying that if I put him in I’d have to put some of the other Beatles in. I didn’t think we wanted to see contemporary Beatles in the piece. So I said, ‘No, no, no,’ and he said, ‘Okay.’ Thinking they had sampled an archival piece of music, and it turns out that George had actually performed that on the song. Had I known that, I would have let him do it because you only see him from the back anyway. But I’m heart — actually heartbroken about not letting him do that piece, especially now more than ever.” - Joe Pytka (director of the “Free As A Bird” video), The Beatles Anthology special features (x)
Impulse: It's not fair. How come the girls get Hermit Gals Night and we don't get a Hermit Guys Night?
Joe: Because the last time we tried, Scar, Grian, and Mumbo all got arrested and we had to take up a collection for the bail money.
“So, mobs is short for mobsters, because obviously in this game our primary enemy is the Italian mafia. Uh, I keep asking them to add the Yakuza, but that’s like a whole separate thing apparently."
- Joe of the Hills variety, Bonus snow day Vault Hunters stream! 1:25:07
“Subtlety, vulnerability, charisma. Watching Nick, the audience needs to feel how deeply attractive and compelling he is to Frances, while at the same time accepting that, from [Frances’ best friend] Bobbi’s perspective, he might plausibly come across as muted, even flat. Joe managed to find a kind of glow to the character when really closely observed – like a force that only operates over small distances. [Abrahamson on recalling a moment where Alwyn elevated Rooney’s work] Frances tells Nick she doesn’t want to wreck his marriage and Nick’s line is that his marriage has survived several affairs already... but that he’s never been a party to them. Joe chose to play this with a self-deprecating humour which made what could have been a bitter or diminishing moment into a vulnerable and somehow impressive one.”
Lenny Abrahamson, director of Conversations with Friends, on Joe Alwyn playing Nick