It’s that time of year again… I’m not talking about the flowers being in bloom, or the ability to show off your pedicures (and FYI, it’s still not safe to wear white… one more month). I am speaking of the Tribeca Film Festival. This is actually the first year I have been in The City during the fest since its inception in 2001.
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival following the attacks on the World Trade Center to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music and culture.
I not only decided to attend a few of the films, I found an opportunity to approach one of my fave actors, Norman Reedus, who will be starring in Deadline, a featured short in the festival directed by Joseph Bakhash and written by Sean McPhillips. With a career spanning over a decade and almost 50 films, I came to discover that this actor with a huge Cult following, is anything but categorical… which made me love to love him even more.
Highly noted for Mimic, Deuces Wild, Beat, The Notorious Bettie Page, Moscow Chill, and his character Murphy McManus in The Boondock Saints, Reedus appeared in a slew of roles that seemed to embrace a side of ourselves most of us don’t like to visit very often. But don’t call him a dark person, it’s gotten very tiresome, and as I quickly learned, he’s pretty chill, comedic, and quite the creative visionary.
SBS: You have quite an expansive filmography, but I have found that it is very character driven, meaning a lot of the roles you play are pretty intense with a lot of inner turmoil on various levels. Sometimes this struggle is resolved in some way and is pertinent to the character and the story, and sometimes they remain dark, agree/disagree?
NR: Yeah I guess I seem to do those dark roles . But I’m not really that dark . At least I try not to be. I’m actually pretty funny and find most people funny or things quite funny. Im so tired of everyone thinking I’m so dark. I just try and pay attention… and I get upset easily and understand being upset and it all comes from a place of unhappiness. But I don’t practice that in my life. I try to be happy. That’s the big fight I think, right?
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