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"You start with the band as four individuals, four blanks who have come out of this terrible thing [Curtis's death], and one picks up a guitar and one – reluctantly – picks up a microphone, and the one that picks up the microphone goes in one direction… And I become the drummer who starts acting daft.
I remember dumbing down and acting daft so the older pros didn't think I was a weirdo.
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My first reaction to acting was: "Don't be daft".
And it really does drift, with brief instrumentals such as Ambience 001: In a Certain Way and the Daft Punk-sampling Hublots acting as segues.
They might be acting in a certain manic way in public that is socially unacceptable, but schizophrenic is daft diagnostics, doesn't tell you anything".
Not everything works, but the good bits are very good: Michael-6, The Robot Talk Show Host is a daft, irreverent deconstruction of loathsome daytime chatshows led by the likes of Jeremy Kyle; the Michael Caine masterclass in acting is spot-on.
It was a bit daft, I suppose, like the "die-in", but at least you could feel that your favourite politicians were acting from their moral centre, a habit we thought would last through many a term in government.
Enough acting.
Hammy acting?
Not acting.
The acting.
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