Chris cyklar på enhjuling!
Delar av en intervju med regissören till Coldplays video till Paradise:
And Chris rode the unicycle himself, right?
Yes. I’d asked him about finding a local unicyclist and he said that he’d done it as a kid, so he’d do it. He hadn’t done it for 20 years, but he seemed to think it’d be like getting back on a bike. Even if he was dressed as an elephant. So we drove out into the middle of the savanna and he got on the unicycle and I was ready for him to fall on his arse and that be the end of the video! But he was amazing. The rest of the crew were still setting up somewhere else, so me and Chris just started filming.
A lot of people have assumed it wasn´t Chris the whole time.
Oh it totally was. There was definitely something quite perverse about having one of the most recognisable faces in music covered up by an elephant’s head. I kept asking if he could take the head off from time to time to make it clear that it was him, but he was really reluctant. He said the whole point was that people couldn’t see it was him. But I told him that some people would just assume he was too busy to film the video. Eventually, after a lot of persuading, me and Phil managed to get him to take it off for one shot, which is the one in the video.
But all the other times in the video, it was him?
Yes. He insisted on it being him. I kept telling him that nobody would ever know if it wasn’t, and he just said, “I’ll know”! So, yeah, he did the whole thing. Even when we did the bits back in London on the tube, that was all him.
Yes. He insisted on it being him. I kept telling him that nobody would ever know if it wasn’t, and he just said, “I’ll know”! So, yeah, he did the whole thing. Even when we did the bits back in London on the tube, that was all him.
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