January 27, 2012   771 notes
oldhollywood: David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg) (via) Roeg: “We really didn’t need to talk about the role at all; he was the part the moment he stepped on to the set. During the first week of shooting, there were some studio folks lurking about—more to meet David Bowie than anything else, I’d imagine—and they expressed a few reservations. ‘He seems a little…odd, don’t you think?’ And I told them, ‘The character is an alien; how is he supposed to act? Like he’s Gary Cooper?’  It wasn’t like David was unfriendly—we had dinner together numerous times, and he ran a lending library out of his trailer, which was full of books on every subject imaginable—but he kept himself separate to the point that others started to think of him as this mysterious ‘other,’ you know? So much of that performance is simply Bowie being himself—and that’s what’s so brilliant about it.” (via)

oldhollywood:

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976, dir. Nicolas Roeg) (via)

Roeg: “We really didn’t need to talk about the role at all; he was the part the moment he stepped on to the set. During the first week of shooting, there were some studio folks lurking about—more to meet David Bowie than anything else, I’d imagine—and they expressed a few reservations. ‘He seems a little…odd, don’t you think?’ And I told them, ‘The character is an alien; how is he supposed to act? Like he’s Gary Cooper?’

 It wasn’t like David was unfriendly—we had dinner together numerous times, and he ran a lending library out of his trailer, which was full of books on every subject imaginable—but he kept himself separate to the point that others started to think of him as this mysterious ‘other,’ you know? So much of that performance is simply Bowie being himself—and that’s what’s so brilliant about it.” (via)

(via hoodoothatvoodoo)

  1. springofconsciousness reblogged this from tuxedo-moon
  2. justkidsinourparentsclothes reblogged this from oldhollywood
  3. skylitlucy reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    bizarre movie. And, FYI, contains an extremely long, completely nude sex scene. No, David
  4. misatolx reblogged this from amaki09
  5. shermanedwards reblogged this from oldhollywood
  6. keepingtimewithmusic reblogged this from itsjusttimeslikethese
  7. itsjusttimeslikethese reblogged this from oldhollywood
  8. wiseformyyears reblogged this from oldhollywood
  9. thelirium reblogged this from oldhollywood
  10. abedules reblogged this from oldhollywood
  11. undercovermartn reblogged this from tuamaegosta
  12. baldpicard reblogged this from oldhollywood
  13. comalie-lullaby reblogged this from tumblrsdeadghost
  14. ibrokeyourtelevision reblogged this from craziestdiamonds
  15. finedineandwineme reblogged this from oldhollywood
  16. saritakitch reblogged this from oldhollywood
  17. luciwestenra reblogged this from oldhollywood
  18. town-rain reblogged this from oldhollywood
  19. asynjur reblogged this from oldhollywood
  20. mikhail000 reblogged this from oldhollywood
  21. worldonthescreen reblogged this from oldhollywood
  22. llorona reblogged this from tristessejoie
  23. nessarandall reblogged this from oldhollywood
  24. hypotheticallyme reblogged this from hoodoothatvoodoo
  25. acanuck-eh reblogged this from oldhollywood
  26. ddcholfe reblogged this from oldhollywood
  27. ibunny reblogged this from tudore
  28. zohway reblogged this from oldhollywood
  29. thefiascofactor reblogged this from oldhollywood
  30. dramaticnostril reblogged this from oldhollywood
  31. vanessawire reblogged this from jdbfanclub
  32. bigfoot51232 reblogged this from oldhollywood