Artwork undoubtedly did not imitate life for Harry Connick Jr. in his latest position.
The actor and musician, 56, performs a brooding fallen rockstar within the new Netflix romantic comedy Discover Me Falling, written and directed by Stelana Kliris.
Talking with PEOPLE for this week’s difficulty about how the film pertains to his actual life, Connick, who’s well-known within the jazz style, mentioned the rock-music side of his character, John Allman, did not really feel that international.
Somewhat, “What was novel to me was taking part in a man who was so indignant and so faraway from society and from any simply good relationships,” explains the Emmy and Grammy winner, who shares three daughters together with his spouse of 30 years, Jill Goodacre Connick.
He provides, “That was the half that was unusual.”
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“It was simply so unhappy for this man,” Connick provides. “He simply had a horrible downfall in his profession and simply felt like he needed to isolate himself, and that is the half that was fascinating.”
A synopsis teases that Discover Me Falling follows John as he is “coming off a flop album and his greatest hit’s dwindling reputation. In consequence, he “decides to take a break from his profession to reclaim his spark,” transferring to an “remoted cliffside dwelling” on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Talking with PEOPLE, Connick says the film — which costars Agni Scott, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Tony Demetriou, Aggeliki Filippidou, Lea Maleni, Athina Roditou and Clarence Smith — “is nearly a man who realizes what’s vital in life,” regardless of having “to go very far-off to determine that out.”
“Harry and I solely managed a chat a few days earlier than our first scene collectively,” Scott, who performs Sia, John’s love curiosity, beforehand instructed PEOPLE. “However he’s such a sort, open and beneficiant individual that he made every little thing appear very easy and easy.”
Raved author/director Kliris, “I needed somebody who may carry depth to the position, however who may additionally take our breath away when he sang on display, and Harry delivered on all fronts.”
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Connick has comparable phrases of reward for the “superb” work from Kliris, and tells PEOPLE that he is grateful to be a part of the “compelling” and “superbly written” Discover Me Falling, which additionally options new music from the New Orleans native.
And the filming locale was fascinating for him, too. “Cyprus is a spot that I’ve at all times needed to go at the back of my thoughts, however by no means was in a position to make it there,” says Connick.
Throughout a go to to “a website of ruins,” he remembers particularly seeing a marble pillar that was “totally different from all the opposite ones,” which made him naturally interested by what had occurred at that website.
“They mentioned, ‘Effectively, that is the place Saint Paul was whipped when he was spreading the phrase of Christ,’ ” Connick says. “It is only a totally different degree of historical past over there.”
Discover Me Falling is now streaming on Netflix.
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