‘Naked’ truth coming out
ETHAN Hawke, Rose
Byrne, Chris O’Dowd are in the f ilm “Jul i et , Naked.” So how naked i s Jul i et ?
Hawke: “Please. ‘ Jul i et ’ is a song. I play old-time rocker Tucker Crowe, whose 25-yearold song suddenly surfaces, is a big hit and I sing i t .”
So what’s he know about singing?
“Nothing. What do I have to know? I do what I have to do. The role says sing, so I sing. I do that sometimes. I ’ ve sung for my family. I can do a l i t t l e, and I didn’t take any lessons. An actor singing is different from a singer singing. Singing is communicat i on.
“Also, don’t ask about my cl i nkers. What you lack in technical s ki l l you make up in pass i on. You fake it. For an actor, I’m not a bad singer.”
The moviegoing crowd included shloompy shortsleeve tees hanging out of mens’ pants. Ethan’s tailored blue suit — nifty. So how did he think he looked onscreen?
“I only saw this f ilm once, but I’m always aware of the al- ternative. In other words, if you don’t get older you’re dead. And I l i ke being alive.” The story deals with Byrne’s character in a relationship with actor O’Dowd’s character who’s a fan of Ethan’s Crowe character — and for the rest, go see the movie. Byrne’s anklelength drop-deadgorgeous multicolor embroidered Dior gown clearly wasn’t laying around her cl oset. She keeping it? She j ust laughed, then: “Please. They gave me two f ittings.” The screening’s crush of invitees was so loud we couldn’t hear one another so this movie s tar wearing t his $20,000 — give or take a franc — gown was shouting at me:
“We f ilmed in London. Being Australian, I loved the atmosphere. I have friends there, and I appreciated the British tone. A g reat scene’s in a seaside town, where Chris O’Dowd’s furious character storms off the beach.”
To explain the scene, Rose had to shout. This didn’t work — so go to a theater and see the movie.
O’Dowd: “I play a music obsessive involved with Rose. He then meets his hero Tucker who then runs off with Rose . . .” At this moment, a chocolate pretzel commanded Chris’ attention as did his nifty suede boots, which he couldn’t tug off to show me — so what he said was, “S - - t.”
Next, “I’m from Ireland. Home is California. But now I live in London, and I got these at Topshop.”
Listen, as I sai d, if you’d l i ke to know more about “Jul i et , Naked,” the movie’s in theaters on Friday.