Ghost’s Tobias Forge hints at a shift into film: “I’m beginning to recognise where there might be a spot for me”

nme.com:

Ghost’s Tobias Forge has hinted that he may get more involved in film making.The metal frontman was speaking to NME in a new interview ahead of the band’s highly anticipated sixth studio album ‘Skeletá’, which is due to be released on April 25.Forge has inhabited a series of different characters during his time fronting the Swedish occult band, and over the years the band’s imagery has been heavily influenced by film.When asked if he considered getting more involved in the film industry, Forge said: “Absolutely.

I have always been almost equally interested in film as I’ve been in music. But because I’m not a very scholastic person, quite quickly in school [I felt like I] hit the ceiling in terms of how far I could evolve with that.“Nowadays, you can have a successful life without being greatly educated, but at the time, I felt that there was a certain degree of scholasticism that needed to go into making film.

I know now that’s not necessarily true, there are directors and scriptwriters who never went to film school.”He continued: “Earlier in my life, I saw a venture down that route as something that was going to take away from my music and something that would require me to start studying.

Now, though, I have dipped my feet a little into the film world, and I’m beginning to recognise where there might be a spot for me.