Production Details - Cannes pt. VI
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vardathemessageMore on Johnny and Cannes:
Johnny has an aversion to black tie. ... He tries on the Gucci suit in the restaurant's lavatory. It doesn't fit. Johnny insists he's going to wear his own glam-rock costume: bottle-green velvet jacket and yellow velvet pantaloons. There's a strong chance he won't be let into the premiere if he does. Hysteria looms.
Johnny is wined and dined again by the usual crowd of financiers, agents and the Velvet Goldmine cast. The premiere's at 10:30pm. Johnny gets in without any trouble, especially since Haynes is also wearing an unorthodox silver jacket made by costume designer Sandy Powell. Tickets could not be had for love or money yet there are empty seats inside.
At one o'clock in the morning, as the whole cast emerges triumphantly, the gawpers start heckling. They want to see established stars. "Who's that ugly slut?" they shout at a blameless (and perfectly attractive) actress. A convoy of cars whisks the stars off to the Villa Federica, a floodlit mansion of some opulence. The Velvet Goldmine party is the hottest ticket in town. Michael Stipe, Brian Eno, Winona Ryder, Bono and Sigourney Weaver are there. Gordon, an Irish friend of Crofts', is disconcerted to catch one of the waiters in the act of picking his pockets. Glam-rock music blares out into the early light. Some of it is the soundtrack of the movie, on which Johnny sings. Johnny leaves at six with Toni Collette on his arm. It seems their friendship is on again.
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At six Johnny is expected at the Cap hotel for drinks with his English agent. He cancels. Sandy Powell arrives with the costume her boyfriend wore at last night's party, and speedily adapts it for Johnny to wear at the awards ceremony. Christopher and most of the cast retire to a small restaurant, where they watch the ceremony on television. Todd wins a rarely given award for technical excellence. When Todd and Johnny arrive back at the restaurant there's dancing on the tables. A Miramax party on a boat in the harbour is considered a damp squib and no one goes.
To bed at one, then up again for his Kansas flight at five, with four more changes ahead. Johnny will arrive at midnight, and he has a wake-up call at 5:30am, to be on set and acting. Ang Lee has been implacable about the schedule.
Before he leaves the film festival, Johnny tells me: "I wish Cannes had remained just fantasy. I grew up seeing it on TV and wanting to be here and now I wish I'd never come."
Johnny has an aversion to black tie. ... He tries on the Gucci suit in the restaurant's lavatory. It doesn't fit. Johnny insists he's going to wear his own glam-rock costume: bottle-green velvet jacket and yellow velvet pantaloons. There's a strong chance he won't be let into the premiere if he does. Hysteria looms.
Johnny is wined and dined again by the usual crowd of financiers, agents and the Velvet Goldmine cast. The premiere's at 10:30pm. Johnny gets in without any trouble, especially since Haynes is also wearing an unorthodox silver jacket made by costume designer Sandy Powell. Tickets could not be had for love or money yet there are empty seats inside.
At one o'clock in the morning, as the whole cast emerges triumphantly, the gawpers start heckling. They want to see established stars. "Who's that ugly slut?" they shout at a blameless (and perfectly attractive) actress. A convoy of cars whisks the stars off to the Villa Federica, a floodlit mansion of some opulence. The Velvet Goldmine party is the hottest ticket in town. Michael Stipe, Brian Eno, Winona Ryder, Bono and Sigourney Weaver are there. Gordon, an Irish friend of Crofts', is disconcerted to catch one of the waiters in the act of picking his pockets. Glam-rock music blares out into the early light. Some of it is the soundtrack of the movie, on which Johnny sings. Johnny leaves at six with Toni Collette on his arm. It seems their friendship is on again.
...
At six Johnny is expected at the Cap hotel for drinks with his English agent. He cancels. Sandy Powell arrives with the costume her boyfriend wore at last night's party, and speedily adapts it for Johnny to wear at the awards ceremony. Christopher and most of the cast retire to a small restaurant, where they watch the ceremony on television. Todd wins a rarely given award for technical excellence. When Todd and Johnny arrive back at the restaurant there's dancing on the tables. A Miramax party on a boat in the harbour is considered a damp squib and no one goes.
To bed at one, then up again for his Kansas flight at five, with four more changes ahead. Johnny will arrive at midnight, and he has a wake-up call at 5:30am, to be on set and acting. Ang Lee has been implacable about the schedule.
Before he leaves the film festival, Johnny tells me: "I wish Cannes had remained just fantasy. I grew up seeing it on TV and wanting to be here and now I wish I'd never come."
