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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Oh come on.... that’s not Terry Gross... That’s Dana Carvey doing his NPR impressions!
Served in the Marine Corps, and now runs a non-profit foundation called Arts in the Armed Forces that stages theatrical performances for military personnel.
His stepfather is a minister.
Growing up, he sang in the church choir.
I just now heard of him ..and i still don’t know who he is.
What a coincidence, HE is on MY ever expanding list of liberal actors I can’t watch because they make me nauseous.
Must be why I have never heard of it or him.
Is this odd looking woman one of the females that is parodied in the Schweddy Balls SNL Christmas skit?
That dude looks like Skeletor. Best Terry Gross interview was with Gene Simmons. Look it up. classic
Lib women are so unattractive.
Who?
Agree. Why is this nerd suddenly in every movie including a leading role in Star Wars.
“Me too
I have a face for radio and a voice for silent pictures.”
What is amazing women think he is sexy as heck due to his “rugged” face.
Adam Driver is the millennial Mark Hamill/Luke Skywalker. Or something. I haven’t quite figured out his movie stardom.
What is amazing women think he is sexy as heck due to his “rugged” face.
He looks like every tall and goofy nerd from my high school days. Not sure what the attraction is but I am not female.
Because that idiot actor enlisted in U.S. Marines after 9/11. Next dumbass question?
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It’s a great song written by Stephen Sondheim. But I’ll never go see the movie.
Fresh Air is not live. There is no reason they could not have added the music later except for incompetence. I have engineered probably hundreds of radio interviews with celebrities of one grade or another. This does not sound to me like an unreasonable request, as they go.
New revival of Company Bobby is Bobbi with Katrina Lenk and the newlyweds are John and John.
P.S. Some people never get over being grossed out by recordings of their own voices.
Nearly 40 years in radio, I hated the aircheck sessions with PD’s for that reason. Today with voice tracking technology, I can drive home and still turn me off.
Served in the Marine Corps, and now runs a non-profit foundation called Arts in the Armed Forces that stages theatrical performances for military personnel.
His stepfather is a minister.
Growing up, he sang in the church choir.
This man is NOT the enemy, folks. He fell into his role as Kylo Ren in the new Star Wars series, but he's very quiet politically and personally. No need to lambaste him for the simple reason of his profession.
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