Celebrity friendships are always interesting to listen to about, however Gary Oldman and David Bowie's friendship was one of the longest and remains to be one of the most unswerving.
Come on, two icons in a single friendship? Can that also be conceivable? That's simply an excessive amount of megastar power for us to take care of. Yet the pair had any such shut relationship that it has exceeded loss of life.
We would possibly have lost Bowie five years ago, but that hasn't stopped his friendship with Oldman from going on. The actor has been running tirelessly on keeping the artist's legacy alive, in conjunction with his circle of relatives.
Here's what their relationship was like, and how Oldman remains to be a faithful buddy, even after Bowie's demise.
They Met In The Late '80s
Both being raised in South London, the pair already had so much in common by the time they met within the overdue '80s. They'd each had arduous childhoods and had past studies with habit.
They met in a chance encounter at London’s Duke of York theatre and instantly turned into close buddies.
"A friend of mine had been in a play and I went backstage after the performance and Dave walked in," Oldman instructed The Daily Mail, in 2014. "We got talking, then we all went to dinner and by the time we got to cigarettes and coffee, as you did in those days, we did the chair-swapping and I got chatting with him.
"We got on actually neatly. He comes from the same part of the sector as I do. I didn’t want anything else from him, he didn’t need anything from me."
By that time in 1988, Bowie was already an icon, of course, but Oldman had yet to really breakthrough as a successful actor.
Still, Bowie was clearly intrigued by Oldman, as unknown as he was. "Dave mentioned, 'This is the place I’m staying, underneath this identify, give me a choice,'" Oldman continued. "Which I didn’t do!"
"But then a couple of months later he called me. He was taking a spoil and doing a little writing on Mustique, the place he had a space at that time. He stated, 'Come over, I’ve were given a spare room.' My son Alfie was simplest 5 months outdated at the moment, but we went. And it was improbable. Dave is a actually great man.
"I see him less as 'David Bowie' and more as Dave from Brixton and I’m Gary from New Cross. I was a fan of his music and I still am. We’re just mates."
They've Had A Couple Of Collaborations Over The Years
The pals had their first collaboration in 1995 after they sang a duet of Bowie’s "You’ve Been Around" for guitarist Reeves Gabrels' album The Sacred Squall Of Now.
The subsequent yr, they both seemed in Julian Schnabel’s film, Basquiat, where Bowie performed Andy Warhol.
In 2013, Bowie and Oldman caused some controversy throughout the Catholic community once they collaborated on Bowie's track video for "The Next Day." In the video Bowie performs a Christ-like character whilst Oldman plays a clergyman, who takes a girl right into a brothel. Marion Cotillard also seems.
It caused this kind of commotion that YouTube had it temporarily banned, but Oldman was just happy to lend a hand a chum out.
"Dave just shot me an email, out of the blue, saying, 'Do you want to come and play a priest for a day?'" Oldman said. "It was all done for a sandwich and a bottle of pop. We actually shot it in a place that’s about ten minutes from my house. There was no money in it."
"People can make what they want of it, that’s the point of a video like that. He’s an artist, he makes you think."
Besides, who would flip down the danger to famous person in a David Bowie song video?
Oldman Is Keeping Bowie's Legacy Alive In More Ways Than One
During the 2016 BRIT Awards, just after Bowie's dying, Oldman authorized his friend's BRITs Icon Award and shared some just right recollections he had with the rockstar.
"I am so deeply touched and honored to be here tonight to accept this award for David and his family," Oldman mentioned in his speech.
"David was funny. He was funny, hilariously so, and the laughs were many and massive, and I shall miss them. A related story, a few years ago we were standing on a street corner and he was approached by this big fella, rocker type, long hair, leather-clad, and he offered up this piece of paper for David’s autograph.[EMBED_YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0J9TDSqEI[/EMBED_YT] "David signed the piece of paper, and as the fella walked away he grew to become to me and mentioned 'Well, he’s going to be disillusioned.' I mentioned 'Why?' and he stated 'Because I signed it Gary Oldman.' His outlook was all the time sure, and I never as soon as heard him bitch."When he wrote to tell me the bad news that he had cancer, he added, 'the good news is I have my cheekbones back.'"Oldman went on to sing on the Bowie tribute live performance Celebrating Bowie in March of 2016, and additionally provided narration for the David Bowie Is mobile app in 2019 . The Augmented Reality version of the app shows a digital model of the traveling museum exhibition that honors Bowie, which first opened up in 2013 on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[EMBED_YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZqtPADejM[/EMBED_YT]
The day after what would had been Bowie's 74th birthday this year, Oldman joined Bowie's pals, collaborators, and different celebrities he impressed in making a song one of the artist's songs right through a reside flow match. Oldman sang "I Can’t Read."
It's unhappy that Oldman misplaced one of his dearest buddies, however it's heartwarming to see just how a lot he is keen to do in honor of Bowie. All Oldman has to do to look Starman, even though, is look up on the stars.
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