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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 21 July 2017
Q&A: Casey Affleck goes under a sheet for ‘A Ghost Story’

By LINDSEY BAHR get it to look that way. It work. The challenges of be-
AP Film Writer was a perfect balance of ing spoken about person-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey not being exactly scary, ally in the media were very
Affleck plays the ghost in but not seeming silly and sobering and they really
the new David Lowery film, also not seeming slapdash. hurt, especially my family
“A Ghost Story.” For most AP: How did they convince which is what I really cared
of the movie, expanding you to be in a movie where about.
wide Friday, he’s silent and you are acting through a And it was confusing be-
cloaked in a white sheet sheet most of the time? cause it was all so at odds
with eye holes cut out as he AFFLECK: I may be un- with my core values. The
returns to his home to look usual, I can’t say for sure more kindness and com-
in on his still-living partner in this regard, but when I passion we can find for all
played by Rooney Mara. heard that I was like, “I’m people, the better all our
It’s a weird, wild, sometimes totally in.” The idea of be- lives will be. And I believe
funny and breathtakingly ing hidden somehow was harassment of any kind is
gorgeous film that will leave so appealing to me. And completely unacceptable.
you thinking about the big David doesn’t have to per- Bullying and mistreatment
ideas of love, life, eternity. suade me. I have so much of anyone is totally abhor-
Affleck, coming off of a fun working with him and This image released by A24 shows Rooney Mara and Casey rent. Everyone should be
best actor win for “Man- Rooney and his producers. Affleck in a scene from the film, “A Ghost Story.” treated with respect in the
chester by the Sea” and It was a three-second con- ally moving and romantic cut. It’s torture. You have workplace and anywhere
an awards season marred versation. and sweet and full of ideas to sit there with something else. That’s what I teach my
by intense public scrutiny AP: People have really that I wasn’t really aware you wrote, acted in, were kids and it’s how I try to live
around a past civil sexual latched on to that long of. there every day directing. my life.
harassment lawsuit, is dip- take of Rooney eating the A good movie tends to You see the first (cut) and However, I couldn’t and
ping his toes back in the pie. bring out all of these ideas think, “Wow, I’ve made can’t talk about it as it re-
spotlight to promote the AFFLECK: There was quite a from other things that you one of the worst movies of lated to me because every-
film. He spoke to The Asso- bit of build up to that. What read and this movie does all time.” I’ve been reas- one involved signed some-
ciated Press about his year kind of pie is it going to be? that in a way that’s really sured by directors who I re- thing saying we wouldn’t
and moving on. Where is the pie coming accessible. I don’t think it’s ally love who make great talk about it and that it has
This interview has been ed- from? Who is making the a weird, esoteric, experi- movies that that’s always been settled to the mutual
ited for clarity and brevity. pie? Rooney had strangely mental art house movie at their experience too. satisfaction of all parties.
AP: Congratulations on never eaten a pie which all. It’s very touching, just AP: Finally, the year was That’s all we can say. So I
“A Ghost Story.” It is not a is the weirdest thing. There not dumbed down. coupled with both a pro- am just trying to move on.
scary film per se, but it has are lots of things I haven’t AP: You’ve worked with fessional high in your best Period.
truly haunted me. eaten, but you’d think a David three times now, actor win and intense pub- Ultimately, I am really glad
AFFLECK: It’s been great pie is something you’d what do you think his future lic scrutiny of you personal- that there’s a heightened
how much people have have come across at some holds? ly. Do you have any reflec- cultural awareness around
responded to it. Usually you point. AFFLECK: I think he’s one of tions on that experience? those issues. I took my kids
have some sense of what AP: It’s a fairly contempla- our most interesting direc- AFFLECK: There were very to the Women’s March in
a movie is going to be and tive film, do you think it has tors. I would bet that he has high moments and there Vancouver where I was
this is probably the film that a broader audience than a very long career marked were some difficult chal- working and there were a
turned out most differently just cinephiles? by very different types of lenges. Winning an Oscar lot of people there. It was a
than what I expected. AFFLECK: I don’t really con- movies in the same vein as was such a high it was an family event and I got the
AP: The ghost costume you sider myself a cinephile. I the Coen brothers or Stan- out of body experience. I sense that this generation
have to wear is incredible. have pretty mainstream ley Kubrick. And I bet, just was genuinely honored by of kids growing up, my own
AFFLECK: I can’t think of an- tastes. I have an appetite like those guys, there will that and the other awards included, are going to be
other single costume in an- for some difficult movies like be a few masterpieces in for “Manchester.” filled with a sense of activist
other movie where so much Tarkovsky movies or Bela there. Publicizing a movie is, you empowerment and they’re
of the movie depended on Tarr movies. But I also kind AP: And you’re directing know, something that I’m going to be loud voices for
it working. The sheet looks of really just love “World a feature now too called used to. That’s part of my social justice. I think that
simple but it wasn’t just a War Z” too. And I love this “Light of My Life”? job and I have no com- that might be the silver
sheet and it was hard to movie. I think it’s really, re- AFFLECK: Just finished a first plaints talking about the lining.q

Ryan Seacrest back as host of

‘Idol’ when it returns on ABC

By FRAZIER MOORE joined her in May. break up,” he said.
AP Television Writer “I am happy to confirm ... “I thought, ‘Gosh, it would
NEW YORK (AP) — that Ryan Seacrest is return- be great to get back to-
Seacrest in! ing as the host of ‘Ameri- gether at some point.’”
Ryan Seacrest will be can Idol,’” Seacrest had a grand his-
back hosting “American said Ripa as the studio au- tory with “Idol” during its
Idol” when it returns for its dience whooped. Seacrest smash-hit run on Fox from
first season on ABC. said he was excited to be 2002 through 2016.
Kelly Ripa made the an- doing it again. “I don’t Reclaiming that job now
nouncement on Thursday’s know if you’ve ever been gives him an additional role
“Live with Kelly and Ryan,” in a 15-year relationship in the Disney family, which In a Saturday, May 13, 2017 file photo, Ryan Seacrest arrives at
which she has co-hosted and then, for a reason that owns ABC and produces Wango Tango at StubHub Center, in Carson, Calif.
with Seacrest since he you really don’t know, you the syndicated “Live.”q Associated Press