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I mean, yeahit is. bigjeffoh said.. John A. Lomax: Yeah. Movies. STEREOGUM: Yeah, you have a little more control instead of having to funnel messaging through, say, your label. But as the group sets out on yet another tour that on July. I think having seen the film, the scene that is added is really necessary and it wraps up a lot of stuff for that character, so I am so glad they added it. John A. Lomax: Toting salt? That is not necessarily something that I think is so healthy, but it certainly does a good job of cleaning things out. Yeah, totally. I think you look a lot like David Bowie when Estella first meets Artie. Maybe theres some innovation that can occur that can make that easier, especially if we used some of the tools of the internet and the kind of interconnectivity that could occur. We have to put some of our agenda aside in order to do whats best for the group. We are the Dead. But I do remember Glenn Close in the live-action "101 Dalmatians" and just being absolutely terrified of her. One of the freshest faces in the new Cruella de Vil origin story "Cruella" is actor John McCrea, who plays Artie, an independent fashion store owner who helps kick off Estella's ( Emma Stone). Photo by Laurie Sparham. He rose to fame after playing a gay man in the Disney Live-Action film "Cruella," which will be released on May 28, 2021. Also starring Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Paul Walter Hauser, "Cruella"is now playing in theaters and streaming on Disney+ with Premier Access. Everythings beautiful, but its also challenging. Theres sleep deprivation. Lomax, John Avery, et al. Everybody needs to organize. In this exclusive interview with Looper to discuss "Cruella," McCrea shares his thoughts about Stone, co-star Mark Strong and director Craig Gillespie, reflects on his "rock god" moment in the film, and reveals how he'd like to parlay his appearance in a recent vampire miniseries into a role in a dream remake of an '80s horror movie classic. John McCrea is an English actor, musician, internet phenomenon, and media figure. To me, we can argue about gay marriage a lot, but we dont even get to do that unless we have clean air and water. Last updated: June 7, 2022 John McCrea stars as Artie in Disney's Cruella and in this interview we talk about the music, the sets, and the bonus scene he filmed. You know were not saving the entire world, but maybe like 100,000 kids will be better educated. Cruella Star John McCrea Reveals Just How Perfect It Was Working With Emma Stone - Exclusive Interview. It is a brilliant script, isn't it? . Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Exactly. Upon request, McCrea sung the steamboat song, "Blow Cornie Blow" for the interviewer John Avery Lomax. I dont feel that Im ever actually getting that much done. You'll find it in their live performances, defined by a unique brand of audience interaction. But as an audience member, no, I'm terrified of everything. Mostly, I just think about discarded leather jackets in a landfill that are no longer in style. Well known for his smart and often caustically funny lyrics and his trademark half-spoken, half-sung delivery, McCrea and CAKE exploded out of Sacramento, California in 1996 when the single "The Distance" from their second album Fashion Nugget saturated the airwaves. One thing you put up on your news page was about 97 percent of climate scientists saying that global warming was real. Thats pretty rad.. What were you thinking about when you wrote it? I appreciate it. We were still there. Academy Award winner Emma Stone (La La Land) stars in Disneys Cruella, an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious and notoriously fashionable villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. We really feel grateful that there were still enough people who think its not foolish to buy an album and support us. Theres just nothing rebellious, as far as Im concerned, about a leather jacket. If you cant make money doing something that you like, you might as well do some other job and then keep your music pure. Would be interested to know. The other thing people get angry about, that I dont think should be a partisan issue, is when well post something about an environmental issue. He dropped out in his last year to pursue music, playing solo acoustic shows. In a previous interview with CBR, Langford revealed "Shingo" was originally pitched by him and Dini for the Creepshow television show, but it ended up finding a home in the comics. Its not a gritty sort of subversive thing its actually a sort of coddled pudgy thing. Interest was piqued when British stage actor John McCrea was cast in the film in the role of Artie, the owner of a vintage stop who befriends Stone's Estella. I really love Middle-Eastern music. We thought we would give it a try. MCCREA: To be really honest, I had kids. [Ed. He was flying Buccanneers at the start of his career. "So there was considerable pressure, and every time I sent in a design or a page of a story, I waited with creeping terror for the email that confirmed, yes, I did suck, and I was fired! You've got to be hoping that Artie is going to come back with a sequel. It had this massive scale, but I don't think he's afraid to sort of push boundaries a bit more. There are many things to love about Disney's Cruella, and John McCrea playing Artie is near the top of that list. I lived in Koreatown for a little bit. What made you decide to donate to that particular organization? The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. --Joel McCrea in 1978 interview. Profession: Actor Known For: Giri/Haji (2019), God's Own Country (2017) and Dracula (2020) Net Worth: USD $1 Million approx Family & Relatives. I mean, I was very lucky because my character doesn't exist in any of the previous iterations [of "101 Dalmatians"]. Yeah. When people think of Cruella De Vil, hopefully some of them will think about Artie. But for some reason people get really angry and call us hippies I guess for bringing up those kinds of issues. Slowly a reaction against sentimental, patriotic, and derivative Victorian verse set in. Estella begins working at the store at the bottom, and she appears to be going nowhere until a happy accident leads Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson) to offer her a job as a fashion designer. Probably every month or so there will be another single, then probably in a year well release the whole album. Mother, Janet, and his brother Tom and sister Geills completed McCrae's family. Yeah. If there is anything in your way then you have to get rid of that. And I am still waiting -- thank goodness!". A noted pathologist and army physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was also a poet; he wrote "In Flanders Fields" one of the most famous poems of the First World War. I mean, its not like an old world village or anything, but it definitely has certain traits of community within it. Cruella will release simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access McCrea is excited to see a film based on the stage version that he originated because it will then be viewed by the masses. I think for that reason it spurred me into action after a period of not feeling particularly compelled to put out recorded music. The quirky, sardonic, half-spoken/half-sung vibe of Cake's music extends far beyond their recorded material. Its good that we have a lot of different ideas. I was more of a Hercules, Lion King, sort of nineties era, but I do remember the live-action one and I remember Glenn Close. Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. When asked how it feels to be a part of that, John says it feels wonderful, and then continues to explain that to be part of Disneys history in any way shape or form is amazing, but the fact that its about representation and its a positive thing, is even better. To hear that this movie is included in the conversations about representation, and with his character specifically, is like a cherry on an already perfectly baked cake.. I think thats amazing. Yeah, they play us on stations where many times, personally, I cant listen to a lot of the music around our music. According to the most widely accepted account of her death, Jane was murdered by Wyandot scouts working with the British Army. What John loves about this is that every day it was something completely different. In a "Cruella" movie, he also sang the song "I Wanna Be Your Dog." He also appeared in the film "Everybody's Talking About Jamie" as Jamie. John McCrae, soldier, physician, poet (born 30 November 1872 in Guelph, ON; died 28 January 1918 in Wimereux, France). McCrea found immediate footing on "Shingo" after reading Dini and Langford's script, though, stating: "After reading the story, our titular chap seemed to me to be the bastard love child of Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, and H. P. For 11 months I failed miserably, averaging 3 days a month as an extra at $7.50 a day.". It was just that one audition. (Image source: WikiCommons) In 1943, McCrea, 52, embarked on a new career path - one that would take him much closer to the action. I dont know. Uncle Billy McCrea: ??? In a revealing interview for John Kobal's book People Will Talk, McCrea makes it obvious that a big part of why he wanted to be in the movies was the chance to meet and bed beautiful women. We can individually say, Were gonna try to extricate ourselves from this system, but it would be better if we had [unions]. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, I don't believe I went back again. He tries to walk around London like a walking art piece, and I think he succeeds. That the people who I think should be the most concerned and aware in our society tend to be the ones who are just sort of tuning out. Artie is very much a part of Cruella's life now. sort by * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. I remember the cartoon, but I remember the live-action movie a bit more. Did you find more opportunity back home? Was that career changing just in the short term? STEREOGUM: Cool. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky. And I was so lucky. She was working a sewing machine and then she was feeding treats to the dogs to make sure the dog was well-behaved. And the fact that we ever expect any of these massive movie stars to be anything but that, I think it says more about us than it does about them. As a young boy, he had overflowing energy, which often led him into mischief. Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film \u0026 Entertainment News. They varying scale of the movie is really quite something to behold because its massive and its loud, and its quiet., When it comes to Disneys Cruella, there is so much about it that begs to be seen on the big screen, which is something John agrees with. John McCrea on Creating the West End's Newest Hit: 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie'. But its scary for us when people threaten to take away our livelihood not that its enough people to actually close us down. She is also a Freelance Writer. You have to have a job thatll let you tour all the time. Its true of all workers right now. Check us out on www.instagram.com/jamie.musical Interviewing John McCrea (Jamie New) Matt Seaman and Grace Myers from @jamie.musical, the Instagram fan account for the West End musical -. [Ed. I think powers coalescing around some big companies have found through ways of distribution methods of monetizing other peoples work. I would like stuff like that to leak out off the website, into the office, the water cooler dialogue. Forming in 1991, the band crafted a sound that fused an array of genres as diverse as rock, folk, and elements of hip-hop and spoken word, with dynamic horn parts. First off, how familiar are you with HeadCount? Im feeling that way myself. I just dont know when they became marginalized into political issues at all. Interview: John McCrea of Cake. You have Joel Fry jamming on the guitar, too, so that had to have been a thrill. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae and Bonneau. So weve been giving away trees at our shows for maybe five years or so. Not your music, but clearly your actions, seem almost punk rock in your desire to maintain your own control over how it sounds and the videos look. This unique sound first reached a small cadre of in-the-know fans in . And she is just multitasking away like nobody's business. Father: Not Known Mother: Not Known Marital Status: Single John McCrea Favorites And there is something really exciting when a lot of people are all doing something together. I was lucky enough to have a music sensibility, an aesthetic that was palatable to enough other people to the point where I could make a living, at least fleetingly. I was thinking people have to, first of all, disassociate themselves in a sort of way from "101 Dalmatians," but there are certainly elements of it in "Cruella." Is that actually your voice that we're hearing doing that? 2021 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Well, I'm going to put the word out there that John McCrea wants to work on "The Lost Boys." Please disable your adblocker or subscribe to ad-free membership to view this article. Interview: Cake's John McCrea - HeadCount Interview: Cake's John McCrea The quirky, sardonic, half-spoken/half-sung vibe of Cake's music extends far beyond their recorded material. This week on The Show On The Road, a rare career-spanning interview with the ever-curious frontman, activist, and rock hitmaker John McCrea, who founded Cake, one of the most beloved and yet misunderstood bands of our time in Sacramento in 1992. It seems difficult to get music out there without, on some level, having to conform to somebody elses idea of what they want from you. Now that "Cruella" has been released, McCrea has his eyes set, long term, on a dream remake of another classic vampire thriller. Our culture as a band was very do it yourself - very interactive from the very beginning. Its like, youre in this van, and you get paid a few hundred bucks. You can live anywhere, start a band, and make a great album anywhere, which is really, something excellent. Joel McCrea, a tall, trim, ruggedly handsome actor who radiated a casual, amiable image in 80 movies, many of them westerns, died yesterday of pulmonary complications at the Motion Picture and.