John Williams Says He's Never Watched Any of the STAR WARS Movies... What?!
Here's a bit of interesting trivia about legendary Star Wars composer John Williams... He says that he's never seen a single Star Wars movie! I was shocked to hear this, and I'm not sure how that's possible, but it's true. During an interview with The Mirror he said:
“I have not looked at the Star Wars films and that’s absolutely true. When I’m finished with a film, I’ve been living with it, we’ve been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, ‘Ah, it’s finished.’ Now I don’t have an impulse to go to the theater and look at it. Maybe some people find that weird, or listen to recordings of my music very, very rarely.”
I believe the composer has come to some of the movie premieres because there are photos of him, but maybe he doesn't stick around to watch them! Maybe he just walks the red carpet and leaves. I don't know! It's hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that he's not only never seen a Star Wars film, but he's also never watched Indiana Jones, Jaws, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind or several other classic films that he's worked on.
Now, of course, Williams has seen footage from these films. Watching the footage plays an important role in scoring the film and gets the mood right, but he's never sat down in a theater and watched the completed films. He has to watch certain film clips over and over and over again, so I guess I kind of get it. But at the same time, after putting so much hard work into making a movie you'd think he'd be excited to see how it all came together, but obviously he isn't. When he's done, he's done.
Willaims is currently scoring Star Wars: Episode VIII.
Via: /Film