Stardust’s Johnny Flynn: Bowie film was always going to be contentious
Johnny Flynn as David Bowie (Vertigo)
Actor Johnny Flynn has said he knew there would be “contentiousness” with his new film about David Bowie, adding: “We had to tread carefully.”
The Beast star, who is also a singer and songwriter, said he always expected there to be controversy over the film Stardust, in which he plays the musician on his first trip to America, before he created the Ziggy Stardust alter-ego and became a star.
He told the PA news agency: “I think we have been conditioned by those big sprawling jukebox musical biopics but it wasn’t that long ago when there was a spate of films like Control (starring Sam Riley as Joy Division singer Ian Curtis) and a few others about musicians that, for me, were much more interesting and looked at tiny moments in people’s lives that allowed you to understand them on a psychological level much more profoundly.