Back To Black’s Jack O’Connell to direct Paul Weller music video
nme.comBack To Black‘s Jack O’Connell has made his directorial debut working on a music video for Paul Weller.The actor has got behind the camera for the video for a song called ‘Nothing’, which will be part of Weller’s forthcoming album ’66’.
The LP will be released on May 24.“It was a good stroke of fortune,” O’Connell told Variety. “Paul’s been a mate for a while and he’s got a bunch of new music coming out.
He asked me to be in [a video] and I said, ‘Can I direct it instead?’ He obliged. And now we’ve edited it and cut it together.”‘Nothing’ isn’t the only music video O’Connell has been in either, having previously appeared in the visuals for ‘Blue Moon Rising’ by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.Meanwhile, O’Connell is currently starring in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic of Amy Winehouse, Back To Black, which will arrive in cinemas on Friday (April 12).
O’Connell plays Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse’s ex-husband.In a four-star review of Back To Black, NME wrote: “Fielder-Civil, meanwhile, is more flawed chancer than evil schemer here.
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