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The British singer, who turns 60 next week,
launched the casting call on social media in April for the movie
called "Karma Chameleon" after one of the band's 1980s hits.
George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, spoke to Reuters about
the casting search, his milestone birthday and releasing new
music.
Below are excerpts edited for clarity and length.
Q: How do you feel about turning 60?
George: "It just seems ridiculous! It's like 'so what?' For me
it's like there's a freedom that comes with being at this point
in my life and I don't know whether that's to do with my age or
because of certain things .... I think as long as you are
interested in things you'll always be interesting, you know? And
you're never going to be interesting to everybody. But that's
their loss."
Q: You're reportedly planning to release 60 new songs to mark
turning 60. What can you say about this new music?
George: "Sometimes I'm putting out the video before the song
comes out, I'm doing all creative content, I'm just basically
doing it guerrilla style. I'm not promoting it, I'm not saying
when it's coming out, it's just going to come."
Q: You launched a casting call for an actor to play you in your
music biopic. How is the search going?
George: "Obviously I'm very interested in someone else being me
because I think we're all playing a role anyway, particularly us
performers. We sort of create ourselves out of cardboard and
glitter. We are our own inventions. And then we sort of spend
our lives explaining a character that doesn't really exist. So,
I think it's a really interesting time to explore who you are,
why you do what you do, what's it like to be old. I think it's
an amazing thing ... I've always loved old people. I'm not one
yet but I'm not scared of it. Because time should make you
wiser. That's a great opening line to a song."
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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