23rd Sep 2005
Gogol Bordello’s Frontman, Eugene Hutz, Starring in ‘Everything Is Illuminated’
Here’s a happy update on my healthy obsession with the Gypsy punk cabaret band Gogol Bordello: the band’s inimatable frontman, Eugene Hutz, has broken into the movies with a starring role in the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s excellent book Everything Is Illuminated. Although I haven’t seen the film yet (I can’t wait!), he seems perfectly cast as the bizarre narrator and translator, Alex.
I heard a piece about it on the public radio show The World this afternoon, with the focus on Hutz. The film was directed by actor Liev Schreiber who said that he knew the movie would completely hang on the character Alex and he looked high and low for the right actor. When he met Hutz, he knew instantly he was ideal for the role.
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Anyone else notice the separated at birth resemblance between Eugene Hutz and Rick at 19 in Seattle?
No, Pablo, I had not, but thanks for pointing it out.
Something else I did observe today while IMing with Elizabeth is that strangely Gogol Bordello has seemed to have achieved close to mainstream status just at the same time as the Bulgarian Bar has finally become passe (due in large part to their parting of ways with the magically delicious Nick Zedd). Coincidence? Doubtful.
Too bad the NY Times panned it. But Roger Ebert liked it.