How did you and Meryl find your musical sweet spot?
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I worked with a teacher four or five times in this cramming crash course of what do professional pianists do, how do they sit and hold their hands and breathe. Lang Lang needs to watch his back.” So I basically lied. “But could you play Mozart?” By the end of it I was like: “I can play anything you throw at me, Stephen. He’d be looking into space and suddenly say : “How well do you play piano? Could you play Chopin?” Yeah, I’d say, but I mainly play jazz. I overwhelmed him with knowledge, but all he cared about was whether I played the piano or not. How did you win over an Oscar-nominated director like Mr. Meryl and I at one point said, “This tone is something between Chekhov and the Marx Brothers.” It has this hunger for life like in Chekhov and sort of the triviality of things, and then you’ve got these moments where I’m running around in my underwear and sock garters.
Nick Martin talked about it like this strange little garden where Florence is the sun and these odd flowers only bloom because she came out and pollinates them with music, and when she dies out the flowers go away.Īs funny as the film is, I wept through it. You’re part of a very unusual threesome in this movie. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Helberg - his “Big Bang” bowl cut gelled high, his suit natty and his mood occasionally self-deprecating - talked about faking it till you make it and what it’s like starring in an eternally popular television series. He got good enough to get the actress Jocelyn Towne, with whom he has two young children and lives in Los Angeles. “But I kept thinking, if I can get good enough, I can probably get girls.” “I played the Sunset Strip at the Roxy, had braces and had my dad drop me off for gigs in hotel lobbies, and I was not super cool,” Mr. Helberg started playing piano when he was around 10 and later played in jazz and rock bands.
Streep) in 1940s New York who doesn’t understand how terribly she sings, he colludes with her husband (Hugh Grant) to keep the crushing truth from her. As Cosmé McMoon, the accompanist to a music-loving socialite (Ms. Helberg has his own semi-nerdy, real-life talent: His piano skills landed him a dream role opposite Meryl Streep in Stephen Frears’s fact-based “Florence Foster Jenkins” (in theaters Friday, Aug. As Howard Wolowitz on “The Big Bang Theory,” Simon Helberg plays a man of undisputed geek talents: an aerospace engineer who can speak the elvish Sindarin from “The Lord of the Rings.”īut Mr.
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