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 Rehearsing wasn’t too hard, either – Meyers has a fairly solid musical background. “I play a little bit of the flute. The guitar. Sing. You know, the regular Irish thing…My three brothers are musicians. One of them plays my drummer in the film. My dad plays. All my aunties, they’re all choir singers.” In fact, his dad was once the bass player in a band, although it wasn’t exactly typical Irish music. “Country Western, baby. He was in a Country Western band called Hector Pick Axe & the Floatin’ Crowbars.” Meyers jumps into a surprisingly good Southern accent. “My daddy was the bass guitar player.” Meyers’ upbringing hardly seems typical in any fashion. “A couple of years ago, I did an interview and someone wrote that I was brought up in an orphanage. I wasn’t. But I did live, sort of, on the street a lot, like, I ditched school a lot. You know, just misspent youth…You’d have to have been there, but Ireland was like, definitely a second world country in the ‘80s. Just growing up with that – no TVs, no cars, satellite dishes, VCRs and stuff like that – it didn’t exist for us. So that was my upbringing. And actually, I quite liked my upbringing. But my parents weren’t together, and one of them was a musician, so in that way it was very similar [to August Rush] from that point of view.” And how about The Tudors? “Next season, what can I tell you about next season? It’s so vicious, it’s so hard what happens to these people. There’s no cowardice in cutting someone’s head off. That’s not a pleasant job. When they cut Catherine Howard’s head off, they had to wedge the blade from the bone. It took four blows. For Anne Boleyn, he had a sword made. A sword that would cut cleaner. He had it made and inscribed. So the tearing down of the Boleyn family – they get torn down like wild animals.” Okay then. Any...happier news? “Peter O’Toole plays the Pope. He’s magnificent… My Henry’s older this time. I’ve got some facial hair, my hair is longer, and I put on 14 pounds in muscle. I didn’t want to put fat on, because, like, I can’t go and be Fat Henry.” He gestures down toward his wiry frame. “You know, I just can’t do it – if that’s what they wanted, get another actor. That’s how it started: I can’t go there, so choose somebody else if you want the character to go there. I was going to go somewhere else with the character. I did put on a little bit, and with the costumes I probably look 34, 35 years old. And the writing is very, very sharp. ... |
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