Yesterday,
Annette
, the Leos Carax musical, which already provoked extreme reactions in Cannes
, premiered in Spanish cinemas
.
The film is very strange - there are not many operas in cinema about toxic masculinity and the problems derived from having a daughter who is a puppet - but there is a scene that has already become a cult since its first screening on the Croisette , when critics started tweeting about it: one in which Adam Driver interrupts
Marion Cotillard's
cunnilingus
to continue singing the film's theme song,
We Love Each Other So Much
, by the Sparks.
When he finishes singing, he summarizes the task.
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Apparently, the filming of the scene had certain technical difficulties.
In musicals, actors usually record songs in a studio and lip-
synch
on
set
, but in this case Carax wanted everyone to sing live and the effect of the movements to be felt in the voices.
"We find ourselves singing in very complicated positions, leaning back or simulating oral sex," Cotillard explained at the festival press conference.
In addition to adding to contemporary sex scenes that take on the dimension of a
meme
- the peach from
Call me by your name
, Sally Hawkins getting intimate with a sea monster in
The Shape of Water
- the sequence will serve to consolidate Driver's status as a rare hunk , an unpredictable actor capable of doing things that others would not come out unscathed, such as singing Sondheim in the middle of a bar in
A Marriage Story
or recite poetry in bed at
Patterson.
Driver also made headlines this summer for starring in a rather steamy Burberry ad in which he plays the centaur. It seems obvious that this advertising script would not have worked if the protagonist were Timothée Chalamet, Chris Hemsworth or any other actor who takes the big roles in Hollywood, but this ex-marine who has managed to keep his life private while gossip margin.
In fact, no one knows the name of her son, of whom some photos were leaked during the highly publicized filming of
House of Gucci
. The boy was born in 2016, the result of his marriage to actress Joanne Tucker, but Driver did not confirm his existence until two years later. The couple is seen on a few red carpets counted, but maintains a low media profile. They met in Julliard, the famous New York theater school that only accepts 0.5% of candidates who apply, they got married in 2013 and have appeared together in a movie, such as
The Report
(2019).
The actor is the son and stepson of Baptist pastors and used to sing in the church choir as a child, with his mother at the piano.
At the age of 17, he "let himself be carried away by the fervor" post 9/11, as he explained in an interview in
Radio Times,
and enlisted in the Marines, where he remained for three years, when he received medical leave for an accident he suffered while riding a bicycle. mountain and where he broke his nose.
That is why he owes that profile that serves him to star in millionaire advertising campaigns.
He often says that being an actor is quite easy compared to being in the military, with which he has a certain relationship.
He founded an NGO with his wife dedicated to bringing plays to military bases.
Adam Sandler, in a scene from 'Marriage Story', with Scarlett Johansson.
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Just before enlisting, he had made an attempt to go to Hollywood to try his luck as an actor. He said goodbye to his then-girlfriend in Mishawaka, Indiana, drove off in an old car and came back in two weeks, having spent all his savings on fixing the car and paying a real estate agent who scammed him in Los Angeles. "I felt like a fucking loser," he explained to
The New Yorker
. His second attempt at succeeding as an actor was much better. Lena Dunham gave him the role that would change everything, that of her desperate boyfriend with paraphilias on
Girls
, who gained weight as the series progressed. That's where Spielberg saw him, who included him with a small role in
Lincoln.
and since then his has been meteoric. On the one hand, he cashes Disney's checks for playing Kylo Ren in Star Wars, and on the other, he collects great directors. He has worked with Scorsese, Spike Lee, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, Terry Gilliam, and Steven Soderbergh. Everyone finds something new to extract from his six-foot-tall and his “caveman” look, as
Jessa's character used to
say about him in
Girls
.
