Christopher Guest has “retired essentially” for nearly a decade Rolling Stone Music Now. After he directed mascot For Netflix in 2016, he recalled streaming telling him they would make any movie he wanted – but he didn't have an idea. “I went hiking, I walked in the river, skiing,” said the guest, who had been married to Jamie Lee Curtis since 1984. “I did that, I played music every day. So I had this life, I thought, I thought, 'I really like it.' … I don't have the idea of a movie, I probably never know.”
But guests are exceptional when returning to Nigel Tufnel Spine Faucet II: End Continue (Released on September 12). “We laughed at each other when we got together,” the guest said, continuing as the original method of the original film as the director of the classic film The strong wind arrive Best performance. In this episode, he reviews Spinal Tap and his character, the production of the Amp-to-11 scene, the feeling of working with Elton John and Paul McCartney, and more. Next are some highlights. To listen to the entire episode, get your podcast provider of choice here, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or play it on it.
The guests insisted that despite the widespread assumptions about physical similarities, Nigel Tufnel was not based on Jeff Beck.
“We don’t have the money to see the first movie,” the guest said. “There was a guy saying, ‘We just go look up and lift the wig.’ … It was like a woman’s wig, and she said, “Okay, I’m just cutting it in a rock style. “I've heard Jeff Beck, but I don't know if I've ever seen pictures of me who've been to, “Oh, that's that guy” … I've never seen his videos.” The guest and Baker ended up being friends in real life, and the guitar hero never said anything about the similarities to him.
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“Stonehenge” was written with another unreleased spine tap song.
“Michael McKean and I were sitting two guitars in the living room,” the guest said. “We started writing a few songs. One was called 'Princess and Unicorn', which I think we've recorded.
Elton John is a “good sport” Spine faucet IIeven if you participated in the keys at the end of the movie, you also participated in the body stunts.
“He is a great sport,” the guest said. Too crazy. In the past few years, this person has had some physical things, serious things. He came in and he was a little lim and I thought, “Oh my goodness, we're doing this stunt, we're doing this.” He was great. I mean, imagine if he said, “This is nonsense. I'm leaving. No movie! And he's great, so generous.”
Ricky Gervais once told his guests office Inspired This is the spinal fauceteven if it doesn't improvise.
“I called Ricky Gervais, which was 15 years ago, and it was a momentary connection,” the guest said. “I wanted to let you know that this is the most important movie for me, and I use it as a foundation for style. But we wrote every word.'”
Nigel Tufnel’s new career as cheese shop owner in the sequel comes from guests’ true love for cheese and past fantasies.
The guests walked into the Neil Yard Dairy Cheese Store in London, and after experiencing the sincerity and enthusiasm of the owner, they saw a “help” sign and had an epiphany: “I think, I'll be called Jamie,” he said. “I'm going to tell her, 'I think I'm going to do that. I can work here, I can understand that.'”
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The guest starts to improvise because he really has a hard time remembering the conversation and song lyrics.
“I was in the band when I was 16 or 17, and I used to write lyrics on paper and record them to the guitar,” he said. “And I would panic remember what I wrote. When I was in the drama, I found it difficult and it led to 'Okay,' Well, I can make up for that.'”
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