Screen Rant spoke to jamespurefoy about the joy his new film FishermansFriendsOneAndAll brings to himself and audiences alike before looking back on the last few decades of his career, including TheFollowing and ResidentEvil:
Released in 2019, Fisherman's Friends tells the unlikely true story of a group of Cornwall-bred fishermen who became pop stars thanks to their soulful renditions of traditional British sea shanties. The film was successful enough to garner a sequel, Fisherman's Friends: One and All, which tells a fictionalized version of the band's quest to play at the legendary Glastonbury Festival.
How were your sea legs? Quite a bit of the movie is shot on these beautiful fishing boats. Did you have any experience on the water before you did these movies? James Purefoy: Yeah, I guess so. That's probably true, I hadn't thought of it like that. I think what happened was, when they first came to me and said they wanted to do another one since the first one made money, I asked, "Where's the story? What more can we say?" Because I don't want to flog a dead horse. I wanted it to be something new and fresh. I wanted their thoughts. They said, firstly, the band ends up at Glastonbury, and that's a big deal.
Exactly. I wish I could have watched this movie with my father, who passed away a couple of years ago from cancer. I'm almost entirely sure he was depressive. There was definitely the masculine wall that was up. He was a working-class guy, a New York City bus driver... He was basically Jackie Gleason. But there were definitely breakthroughs. At the time, they felt like maybe they were a bit too late to matter.
That's why we have to take it really seriously, because that glue is really delicate sometimes. I was really grateful to do that in a film, and whatever anyone else thinks of it, I know what the intention of it was. I know that other people... I've had blokes stopping me outside of car parks in supermarkets all the time now, especially around here, they go, "I saw that film of yours, and it made me think of my father. So thank you." And it's just nice.
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