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More Stories. Today's Best Discounts. At 17, Reedus rejoined his mom when she moved to Japan to teach and then split for London with friends. Inspired by a Jane's Addiction lyric, he soon took off for Spain, alone, settling in the coastal city of Sitges, where he sold paintings out of his apartment. He followed a girl back to Los Angeles, where, in the early nineties, he fell in with a DIY art crowd and began organizing events at which everybody brought their own work, put it on the wall, and threw a party because, he says, "no one would go to an art show unless there was free alcohol and a band.
Hired as an understudy, Reedus found himself on stage the first night, after the lead flaked. But not enough to stop performing. He eventually became a favorite of the directors David Fincher , Tarsem Singh, and Mark Romanek, who were on the front lines of the music-video revolution. It was quick, easy money, and the jobs helped shape his aesthetic as a budding filmmaker. I can film that wall and have these books fly by in slow motion and add a dead bird in the corner, and it'll be magical.
In , the fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth happened to show Miuccia Prada some pictures she'd shot on the set of one of Reedus' early movies, the Oedipal crime thriller Six Ways to Sunday. When his manager phoned to say Reedus was up for a Prada campaign, his first reaction was "What's Prada? When he accidentally spilled a drink, he took the sweater off, wiped up the liquid with it, and threw the garment aside.
In April , Reedus appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair 's Hollywood issue well, inside the gatefold, but still , along with 13 other young actors, including Adrien Brody and Giovanni Ribisi, and a year later earned cult renown playing a divinely inspired Irish vigilante in The Boondock Saints , a frenetic low-budget Tarantino ripoff that became a hit on video. Though roles in some high-profile films ensued, movie stardom did not, and Reedus' career came to a crashing halt after a car accident in Berlin left his face looking, he says, like hamburger.
It's over. Sweater by Lucio Castro. But the truth, according to Reedus, is different: In L. He was asked to read Merle's lines on two separate occasions, presumably to keep him off-balance.
Later, he found out that Frank Darabont, who developed the show from Robert Kirkman's comic books, was so impressed that he created the character of Daryl—Merle's younger brother—specifically for Reedus and gave the actor the freedom to help shape the role.
It was Reedus' idea to have Daryl reject the rednecky and druggy path the producers originally laid out, transforming what started as a supporting role into very nearly the co-lead. According to Kirkman, who's an executive producer on the show, Daryl's development remains rooted in Reedus' interpretation.
And that helped inform where we went with Daryl. John Hillcoat, who directed Reedus in the upcoming corrupt-cop thriller Triple 9 , also noticed this instinctiveness. Maybe I still do. It gives some people an underdog quality—you want to root for them as they fight their way through something. Maybe I have a little bit of that. Until Kirkman clarified last year that Daryl is straight, the Internet was rife with speculation that he might be gay, bi, asexual, or a virgin.
While he's had no romantic clinches on the show, Daryl has shared tender moments with the pragmatic widow Carol and the idealistic orphan Beth and has become close with the show's two openly gay characters.
Stand-up people are the only people you can trust in that world, so that makes Daryl a very compassionate person. And that's one of the reasons that character is popular. It's that tension— will he or won't he and, if he does, with whom?
I like that mystery. I would hate to leave the show. I would play this role until I'm 80, I really would. And I could. Questions of quality aside, the actor remains ambivalent about big-budget moviemaking, especially now that he has a full-time gig that lasts eight months out of the year and requires him to look the same when he returns to shoot the next season.
I won't wear a helmet, but I wore glasses? Reedus also spoke to Comicbook about the argument he has about another iconic accessory of his, the crossbow. The actor said that when he was given lines while aiming or firing the weapon, the audience was unable to see his mouth as he spoke, as a crossbow is meant to be held by the face. The audiovisual team were not happy about this, saying that it was necessary to see his mouth in order to make dubbing in postproduction easier and more realistic, thus proposing that he fire the weapon from his hip.
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