Brazilian actor and musician who worked with the American film director comments on his work and the partnership over the years
WES ANDERSON It’s back with a new movie in 2025: The Phoenician Schemestarring Benicio Del Toro, MICHAEL CERA, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Willem Dafoe and other cinema stars of Hollywood.
This time Seu Jorge It is not involved, but the Brazilian has worked with the American director. He was in the cast of the feature films Marine life with Steve Zissou (2004) and Asteroid city (2023).
In an interview with Gabriel Zorzetto for the newspaper Estadãothe actor and musician was asked about Wes Anderson’s work and what his favorite film from the American director.
Seu Jorge replied:
“Taking The Marine Lifebecause I lived the recording experience for six months in the Italyit is The eccentric teenbaums. THE Gene Hackman It’s amazing in the movie. ”
A synopsis of The eccentric teenbaums describes the 2001 movie as follows:
“ROYAL TENENBAUM (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline Tenenbaum (ANJELICA HUSTON) had three children, Chas (Ben Stiller), Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Richie (Luke Wilson), and soon after they decided to separate. Over the years each of the children has shown different talents, becoming all successful. Chas soon in his teens decided to invest in goods, demonstrating a natural gift for finance, while Margot became a successful writer and Richie a successful professional tennis player. But the whole success story of the three young tenenbaums is forgotten when his father decides to resume the old ties and fight for the love of Etheline, who is about to marry his accountant, Henry Sherman (Danny Glover). ”
Seu Jorge praises Wes Anderson
In Seu Jorge’s view, Wes Anderson has a very specific signature in contemporary cinema. The Brazilian artist praised the filmmaker, who also did works such as The Grande Hotel Budapest (2014), Three is too much (1998) and The incredible story of Henry Sugar (2023):
“He is a great author, it is a privilege to be able to work not only with him, but with so many geniuses around him. Everyone has a great affection for Wes.”
Disk in honor of David Bowie
The musician revealed that the idea of making a record in honor of David Bowie It was precisely from Wes Anderson. The work came out in 2004 with the name of The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions.
“Bowie’s album was not my idea, it was his idea. I was composing the versions, I was presenting, he was choosing the songs. After a while he asks me to enter the studio and record them in voice and guitar.”
In 2023, Wes Anderson himself explained the idea, who was born during the recordings of The Marine Life…, In an interview with NME:
“In the script, we described the character singing a song from David Bowie in Portuguese. But when the time came to film, we realized that we wanted his Jorge singing 12 Bowie songs in Portuguese, so we interspersed his participation in the whole movie. That was great.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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