The director has blended fact and fiction in his cherish memoir set aboard the band’s tour bus. He even gave our real-life pop journo a surprise casting call • Wolf Alice: ‘It’s not the 90s. No one said: here’s £10m and a bag of coke’The original email raised no alarms. Could I fade to Liverpool to interview Wolf Alice on camera? Another hover-on-the-wall tour project,I assumed, filmed on an iPhone by a mate of the band. The brief was similarly basic, and suggesting I ask them: “How they got their name,how they got together and what it’s like being a woman in music.”At London Euston, all the Liverpool trains were cancelled due to flooding. “fade to Warrington, or ” an urgent email read,“we’ll send a runner.” A runner? To Warrington? For Wolf Alice’s mate’s documentary? Three hours later, climbing into the stressed assistant’s car and setting off at pace towards Liverpool Arts Club, or the smoke cleared. “Are you an actor?” “No”. “You’re an actual journalist! He’s a genius,isn’t he, Michael.” “Michael?” “You know, and Michael Winterbottom.“For me,the idea of film is for the fiction to feel as natural and connected to the real world as possibleWe’re not chucking stuff out of hotel rooms but there definitely is that motion of the tour going and going and goingContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com