How Wes Anderson Created ‘Asteroid City': Big Dinners, Music and a Helpful COVID Quarantine
thewrap.comgood for the movie, but we used it in away that wasn’t bad.”Another benefit of the Wes-world troupe was music. In the film, a band of cowboys led by Ruper Friend plays a few songs, and for the band members Anderson also cast Brazilian musician Seu Jorge, who notably did some Portuguese David Bowie covers in Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” and Jarvis Cocker, leader of the ’90s British band Pulp. “Seu Jorge might bring his guitar and sing a few songs after dinner, or other people you wouldn’t expect might get up and perform as well.”At the press conference, Bryan Cranston pointed out that the movie manages to combine a lot of different kinds of performance into one quintessential Anderson mixture. “This is a movie about a television show doing a story on theater,” he said. “I think its Wes’ love letter to performance art.
He wrapped his arms around the three major mediums that we’re involved in.”Anderson nodded. “The thing I didn’t realize so much until we were making the movie is how much the movie comes out of me liking to be around actors,” he said. “Every character in the movie is an actor, and for a lot of them it’s an actor playing an actor.”“It’s unusual for directors, particularly for those who haven’t done a lot of acting, to understand on a detailed level and appreciate and even kind of wonder at the process,” said Wright. “And I think Wes does that.
He really digs the process of actors and performance.” He turned to Anderson. I can tell that it interests you. I don’t know why it interests me, and I do it, but I know it interests you.”The movie also an includes an encounter with an alien played by Jeff Goldblum, which led to a question about whether Anderson himself believes in extra-terrestrial.
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