The Perfect Host kicked off proceedings at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, and D Magazine featured an interview with David and director Nick Tomnay about the movie.
This is your first feature-length film, but I noticed you had a short in 2001 called The Host. Is this a spin-off of that?
Nick Tomnay: Yes. The Host was a short I did in Australia. Same story. And I expanded it into a feature.
So tell me how the idea for the story came about.
NT: It was based on a story I heard a friend of mine tell me about an incident that occurred with him and a guy that escaped from prison, which I thought was pretty interesting. I took that story and then kind of channeled some loneliness that I was feeling at the time into the script. Then it just sort of evolved, as these things do, and became funnier and darker.
Lots of news on David’s new movie! There’s a new poster, a new website, and most importantly, a US release date! The Perfect Host will be available on demand from 27 May and in theatres from 1 July. The new website also has some great new images:
David was interviewed on Fox ahead of the Night at Sardi’s fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association on Wednesday. He mentions he has a movie coming out this summer … presume he means The Perfect Host!
Here’s a wonderful review of David’s appearance at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis on Sunday night, where he discussed his stint at the theatre in the early eighties (original article at MinnPost).
Sunday night, the Guthrie Theater brought David Hyde Pierce to the theater for a discussion with artistic director Joe Dowling. You know the actor. He spent 11 years on the television show Frasier as the title character’s nervous, arch, lovestruck, rivalrous brother, Niles Crane; the abundance of adjectives in the preceding sentence gives some indication of the depth of characterization the show provided Pierce.
Here’s a great new interview with David in Minneapolis’s Star Tribune ahead of his ‘in conversation’ event at the Guthrie this Sunday.
Long before he won four Emmys for Frasier and a Tony for Curtains, actor David Hyde Pierce drew strength from projects that bombed. Fresh out of Yale, where he double-majored in English and theater, he made his Broadway debut in 1982 in the small part of a waiter in Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy. The show, which starred John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Peter Michael Goetz, opened to terrible reviews and closed in two weeks.
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