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Bob Geldof On His “Really Bad” Pink Floyd Film ‘The Wall,’ The “Catastrophic” Violence In The Middle East & Plans For An IMAX Film On Live Aid — Camerimage
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Classic rocker Bob Geldof is the latest high-profile name to pass through what is turning out to be a bustling and A-list edition of Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, where he is presenting a screening of his 1982 feature Pink Floyd – The Wall.
Geldof plays the lead in the music drama, and he’s set to introduce the pic here at Camerimage with the film’s DoP Peter Biziou, who is the recipient of the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
When quizzed by journalists during a press Q&A in Poland whether he looked back on the feature, directed by Alan Parker, as a defining moment of his artistic career, Geldof’s response was definitive: “No, I don’t like the film. I think I’m really bad.”
“I’ve seen the movie twice, and I was embarrassed,” Geldof continued, adding that he could only finish working on the film because Biziou made it “very easy.”
“I was just embarrassed every day by how shit I was,” he said. “I don’t like looking at myself. I don’t like listening to myself. I don’t like hearing myself. The last thing I want is to see myself on the side of a building.”
So why did he sign on to the film in the first place?
“Money,” Geldof joked with an earnest smile.
Geldof added that the paycheck wasn’t huge because Pink Floyd, who he described as “hippies” were “terrible with money.” The musician added that he had also been seeking a new challenge after growing tired of the rotation he’d fallen into with his band, The Boomtown Rats.
However, Geldof was critical of his own acting chops alongside those of what he described as the lineage of rock and pop stars who have dabbled in on-screen fiction work.
“David Bowie is not a good actor. Sting is not a good actor. Bob Geldof is definitely not a good actor,” he concluded
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