Barry Ward Loved Working on ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ and Chats About His Roles in ‘The Flying Mountain’ and Netflix Series ‘Grown Ups’
So, some months later, we made his film Ungrateful Beings and almost a year to the day of meeting him, we wrapped on that film [which premiered at San...
Key points
- So, some months later, we made his film Ungrateful Beings and almost a year to the day of meeting him, we wrapped on that film [which premiered at San Sebastian], and we came straight back to Karlovy Vary for the next festival to celebrate.” Related Stories This year, Ward traveled to Karlovy Vary with British documentary director Grant Gee’s fiction feature debut Everybody Digs Bill Evans, which premiered at Berlin and stars Norwegian actor and Joachim Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World), Laurie Metcalf, Bill Pullman and Ward.
- He portrays jazz legend Bill Evans’ older brother Harry.
- “After Harry’s death, his wife wrote a kind of biographical [text] about Bill and his brother, or a kind of pamphlet – like a chapter in a book about their relationship, and a lot about their childhood and how close and closely bonded they were.
- and Bill Evans, and there’s this half-hour dialogue between the two of them.
What happened
So, some months later, we made his film Ungrateful Beings and almost a year to the day of meeting him, we wrapped on that film [which premiered at San Sebastian], and we came straight back to Karlovy Vary for the next festival to celebrate.” Related Stories This year, Ward traveled to Karlovy Vary with British documentary director Grant Gee’s fiction feature debut Everybody Digs Bill Evans, which premiered at Berlin and stars Norwegian actor and Joachim Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World), Laurie Metcalf, Bill Pullman and Ward. He portrays jazz legend Bill Evans’ older brother Harry. “After Harry’s death, his wife wrote a kind of biographical [text] about Bill and his brother, or a kind of pamphlet – like a chapter in a book about their relationship, and a lot about their childhood and how close and closely bonded they were. and Bill Evans, and there’s this half-hour dialogue between the two of them. Bill plays and improvises, and Harry talks about it. So it’s this dialogue between these two musical geniuses, and it gave me a wholly new appreciation for jazz.” The lack of much video footage meant that Ward took a different approach...
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