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 NPRs 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. Drivers character sings the song late in Noah Baumbachs 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 Airs 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 NPRs New York studios, while Gross was in Fresh Airs base at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia.
We dont really understand why he left, Miller said in an email. We were looking forward to the interviewTerry thinks hes a terrific actor, he was a great guest when he was on [Fresh Air] in 2015so we were disappointed that we didnt 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 OBrien, Gross briefly mentioned that the show had promised you an interview with actor Adam Driver today, but unfortunately, we werent able to do it as planned.
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Never heard of him.
If I sounded like Peter Cetera, I’d listen to me all day long.
I dont care for his acting but his resume includes being a US Marine and walking out on NPR. So Id buy him a beer if I bumped into him in a bar.
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