Posted on 12/17/2019 12:41:41 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
In the midst of promoting three of his latest starring turns, Adam Driver sat for an interview with NPR’s highly influential talk show Fresh Air. But listeners will never hear it.
Sources at NPR told The Daily Beast that Driver walked out of an interview earlier this month with Fresh Air host Terry Gross after expressing displeasure at the idea of listening to a clip of himself singing “Being Alive” from the musical Company. Driver’s character sings the song late in Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix film Marriage Story.
According to one source, Gross’ team was aware that Driver prefers not to listen to recordings of himself and encouraged him to remove his headphones while any clips played back.
Danny Miller, Fresh Air’s executive producer, confirmed that Driver left during a break in the interview “while we were playing back a clip from the film.” The star actor recorded his end of the interview from NPR’s New York studios, while Gross was in Fresh Air’s base at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia.
“We don’t really understand why he left,” Miller said in an email. “We were looking forward to the interview—Terry thinks he’s a terrific actor, he was a great guest when he was on [Fresh Air] in 2015—so we were disappointed that we didn’t have a new interview to share with our listeners about Marriage Story.”
Before airing a rerun last week of an earlier interview with TBS late-night host Conan O’Brien, Gross briefly mentioned that the show “had promised you an interview with actor Adam Driver today, but unfortunately, we weren’t able to do it as planned.”
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Who?
Kylo Ren.
Never heard of him..............
/s
I don’t know, either, but if he walked out on NPR he can’t be all that bad...............
Me too
I have a face for radio and a voice for silent pictures.
Terry Gross is a terrible interviewer and always tries to score points.
She was interviewing a man who had written a novel that had some sexual abuse in the content and she spent the entire interview trying to get him to talk about his sexual abuse history which he denied.
He kept saying that the book was a work of fiction and that it was not his story and she kept coming back to it like a dog to a bone. She wanted sensationalism.
I cannot listen to her voice.
Something you share with Terry Gross.
I refuse to watch any of the films I starred in.
I love watching mine, they remind me of the good old days when I was young and handsome, carp.... now if feel depressed.
Thanks Bob!
Hmmmph. Didn’t know that. Always have thought of him as the dude who’s no relation to Minnie.
I think what is worse than actors full of themselves is media persons and media venues that care far too damn much about what actors do and think besides as the characters they portray. “Liking” or “not liking” an actor is voiced by watching or not watching their performances - TOTAL END OF STORY.
It’s just like most people do not need to take along an art critics guide and review to appreciate, or pan, what is shown in a art display.
The whole world of artistic critics gets far, far, far too much regular news mention and showing than they are worth. Who cares???
Pick a lib from the crowd.Here it is
Good last name
He can leave if he wants, good for him.
The interviewers do exactly what he says he hates, then say “we don’t know why he left!”.
Every day more people learn to mistrust the media
Ran into several like that while in public TV.
Why am I not concerned in the least about this idiot actor?
> encouraged him to remove his headphones...
Okay Adam, put your headphones back on so you can hear us...
Adam?
Adam?
Put the headphones on.
(I think I found a flaw in the plan.)
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