Ethan Coen On His Killer Jerry Lee Lewis Docu, How The ‘Great Balls Of Fire’ Singer Invented Cancel Culture & Reuniting With Brother Joel Coen: Cannes Q&A
22.05.2022 - 14:59
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EXCLUSIVE: After a long Oscar-laden movie partnership with his brother, Ethan Coen makes his solo and documentary debut on the A24 film Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, which premieres at Cannes tonight. He and wife/editor Tricia Cooke made this one while brother Joel Coen and his wife Fran McDormand were off making The Tragedy of Macbeth. Here, Ethan Coen describes the allure of making a free form docu on the firebrand singer/pianist behind hits like Great Balls of Fire. Coen worked closely with T Bone Burnett, the music man extraordinaire who collaborated with the Coens on Inside Llewyn Davis. And when the Coens will put the band back together and make another together.
DEADLINE: Always thought I’d do a great Coen Bros interview someday. I did one with your brother Joel and Fran McDormand for Macbeth, and now we’re sitting down for your solo documentary debut Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind. My destiny is to not have you guys together.
ETHAN COEN: Well, you never know. It doesn’t happen till it happens.
DEADLINE: Your movie on Jerry Lee Lewis reminds of non-traditional musical documentaries, maybe like Buena Vista Social Club, which was dominated by the music. I see connective tissue with T Bone Burnett and your editor/wife Tricia Cooke, and there was Steve Bing, the financier/producer who took his life. How did all this happen?
COEN: The connection was T Bone and Steve Bing. They were involved long before me and Trish were. Steve was a fan and friend of Jerry Lee’s and the impetus for making a movie was his. He recruited T Bone, who did this gospel session with Jerry Lee which is in the movie briefly at the end. As originally conceived, the movie was going to focus on that gospel session with some interstitial archival
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