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Sydney Morning Herald
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
How this British star's teenage efforts to impress girls finally came in handy
Music, you might add, is one of Sturgess's great unresolved loves. Growing up in Surrey, England, he was always in bands, running the gamut from hip-hop to indie. He has never lost his fervour, even as he scaled the Hollywood ladder to A-list acclaim, through movies including 2012's Cloud Atlas and the original 2011 adaptation of David Nicholls' One Day. Loading Tousle-haired, bearded and sleepy eyed, he looks as much a wan troubadour as he does a gleaming celebrity. Even last year he released an album as his alter ego King Curious. Spoiler – it's good. But it's also telling that Sturgess chooses to perform under another name. 'I get it – there's always a bit of an edge to it when an actor puts a record out. It's always, a bit, 'Uh-oh, hold your breath.' And rightly so, I would be exactly the same if I saw an actor put a record out. But the reaction [to his own record Common Sense for the Animal ] was amazing. I was so stoked that all these music magazines really took it on.' It meant that when he first got the script for Mix Tape what he most wanted to know was what was going to be on the soundtrack. Because frankly, if the tunes weren't right, then Sturgess wasn't on board. 'The music made me a little bit nervous because when I got the script it wasn't established what tracks we would be using,' he says. That's also part of the subject in Mix Tape. 'Everyone has such a difficult relationship with music and what tracks were important to them,' he says. 'And Lucy the director [Lucy Gaffy, Totally Completely Fine] was Australian, so I was hoping that she would get on board with the same music I thought Daniel should be listening to. Even my wife and I started arguing about different possibilities for what music he'd like.' Thankfully the tunes are right, at least to my ears – many of the high points of Madchester (the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Tte Charlatans) and the era just preceding it (Joy Division, New Order) are all present and correct. But Mix Tape is also interested in the way we consume music, now and then, and how that affects us. Back then it meant a C90 crafted over weeks from a twin cassette deck. These days it's streaming, shared playlists, likes and comments. 'With the tech now, you just send over a playlist of a track on YouTube to each other, but it doesn't hold the same value, I don't think,' Sturgess says. 'Back then you had to put real effort in to recording a song on a tape, do a bit of artwork on the front, call it something funny and cool …' That doesn't mean that Sturgess is a Luddite. He sees the storytelling possibilities inherent in the new tech. 'On the other hand, phones and relationships is interesting. They provide this secret link to another world in everyone's back pocket and it means that a two-way relationship always has a third party – the phone.' Loading Music also engenders nostalgia, a what-was-I-doing-when-I-first-heard that frisson, and that goes for Sturgess, too. He filmed the Australian sections of Mix Tape in Sydney, taking him away from his home and family in east London and back to a city he last visited when he was barely older than the young Daniel. 'I went to Sydney in my 20s with one of my best mates, who strangely enough is half Australian and half from Sheffield. Back then it was all hostel beds and bars and beaches … I didn't remember much. So it was really nice to go back and get a real idea of the place. It's a wonderful city.' Talking of nostalgia and lost love revisited, it would be remiss to interview Sturgess in 2025 without mentioning One Day. Last year Netflix scored a huge hit with their series adaptation of the David Nicholls comedy-romance, but it was Sturgess who played Dexter in the original 2011 film opposite Anne Hathaway. 'It was actually really nice for me to watch One Day,' he says. 'I'd just worked with Ambika Mod [who plays Emma in the Netflix series] on another TV show that we did for Disney [ The Stolen Girl ] and I was grateful for our friendship because it gave me a personal connection to this new version of One Day that was coming out. It was very nostalgic for me. But I just felt happy for them. They were having their time and we had ours. It was a special time in my life, making that film.' That's the thing with the past. You can't change it. But you can still wallow in the memories and the what-ifs. Now go dig out that old mixtape and see where it takes you.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Dramatic video shows cabin chaos and screams as plane is hit by extreme weather: ‘Like we were caught inside a cyclone'
Dust in the wind-shield? Footage captured the dramatic moment that passengers screamed in panic as their plane was 'swallowed' by a ferocious storm. In the nail-biting clip, passengers can be seen gripping their seats and crying out in terror as the aircraft rocks violently due to the severe turbulence. 'It felt like we were caught inside a cyclone,' one shaken fly-witness told Jam Press while recalling the gritty incident, which occurred aboard a Fly Jinnah flight from Karachi to Lahore in Pakistan on Saturday, May 24. The aircraft was nearing the runway at Allama Iqbal International Airport when it encountered powerful winds and a severe sandstorm. Due to the strong winds and poor visibility, the pilot was forced to abort the landing and head back to Karachi in compliance with air traffic control. One passenger described the harrowing 10 to 12 minutes they were caught in the sandstorm as the 'scariest' moment of their life. 'At first, everything seemed normal,' the flyer recalled to Jam Press. 'But as soon as we touched the ground, the plane was swallowed by a sandstorm. Within seconds, we were airborne again. 'The plane was being thrown around violently; visibility was gone.' This wasn't the only flight impacted by severe weather in the region. In Lahore, at least 22 flights were delayed, diverted or forced to return to their point of departure due to inclement conditions. Sandstorms occur when particles of dust are lifted to great heights by strong and turbulent winds, according to Cloud Atlas. They can cause health issues ranging from respiratory problems to cardiovascular diseases and can also disrupt transportation These walls of sand are particularly prevalent in desert regions like the Middle East.
New York Post
26-05-2025
- Climate
- New York Post
Dramatic video shows cabin chaos and screams as plane is hit by extreme weather: ‘Like we were caught inside a cyclone'
Dust in the wind-shield? Footage captured the dramatic moment that passengers screamed in panic as their plane was 'swallowed' by a ferocious storm. In the nail-biting clip, passengers can be seen gripping their seats and crying out in terror as the aircraft rocks violently due to the severe turbulence. 'It felt like we were caught inside a cyclone,' one shaken fly-witness told Jam Press while recalling the gritty incident, which occurred aboard a Fly Jinnah flight from Karachi to Lahore in Pakistan on Saturday, May 24. The aircraft was nearing the runway at Allama Iqbal International Airport when it encountered powerful winds and a severe sandstorm. 'As soon as we touched the ground, the plane was swallowed by a sandstorm,' recalled one passenger while describing the sandstorm (pictured). Jam Press/Mudassar Alam The storm was so severe that the plane had to turn around right after landing at its destination. Jam Press/Mudassar Alam Due to the strong winds and poor visibility, the pilot was forced to abort the landing and head back to Karachi in compliance with air traffic control. One passenger described the harrowing 10 to 12 minutes they were caught in the sandstorm as the 'scariest' moment of their life. 'At first, everything seemed normal,' the flyer recalled to Jam Press. 'But as soon as we touched the ground, the plane was swallowed by a sandstorm. Within seconds, we were airborne again. 'The plane was being thrown around violently; visibility was gone.' This wasn't the only flight impacted by severe weather in the region. In Lahore, at least 22 flights were delayed, diverted or forced to return to their point of departure due to inclement conditions. Sandstorms occur when particles of dust are lifted to great heights by strong and turbulent winds, according to Cloud Atlas. They can cause health issues ranging from respiratory problems to cardiovascular diseases and can also disrupt transportation These walls of sand are particularly prevalent in desert regions like the Middle East.
Forbes
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
In ‘Next Sohee' Bae Doona Seeks Answers To One Woman's Fate
Bae Doona plays detective Yoo-jin in 'Next Sohee.' Bae Doona's character in the film Next Sohee is looking for answers. She's investigating the reasons a young call center worker chose to end her life. It's not enough to rule the death as a suicide. Her character Yoo-jin wants to know why a company treats its workers so cruelly that death seems like a better option. Next Sohee is the second time that Bae (Kingdom, Stranger, Cloud Atlas, Rebel Moon and Air Doll) has worked with South Korean director and screenwriter July Jung, having appeared in Jung's award-winning 2014 film A Girl At My Door. When she reads Jung's scripts Bae immediately falls in love with them. 'I'm very, very passionate about and interested in the stories that she has to tell,' said Bae. "The personal stories and what's almost like another world that she wants to bring into our world. Those are the parts that I really respect and why I enjoy working with the director. When I see the scenarios that Director Jung produces and directs, I immediately notice that there's no bluff or there's no beating around the bush or sugarcoating it. This is all very real stuff. It's real societal issues that are happening right now in our world, and I really especially enjoy the part about how she leaves the message or the meaning up to the audience. That's the part I enjoy the most.' In both of Jung's films Bae plays a police officer. In A Girl At My Door, she plays Lee Young-nam, an officer transferred from Seoul to a small seaside town after a personal scandal. Young-nam tries to helps Sun Do-hee, a withdrawn 14-year-old girl who is bullied by classmates and beaten by family members. In Next Sohee, Bae plays Detective Oh Yoo-jin. Yoo-jin investigates the death of Sohee, a high school student, played by Kim Si-eun (Squid Game 2, Mental Coach Jegal). Bae was at first surprised that both characters were police officers, but quickly realized the characters existed within totally different stories. Kim Si-eun plays Sohee, the young worker who soon finds it impossible to get ahead at her job. Once the police establish that Sohee's death was a suicide, some of Yoo-jin's fellow officers see no reasons to investigate any further, but Yoo-jin wants to hold someone accountable for Sohee's terrible treatment at work, for the actions that led her to feel so hopeless. 'I think that any normal person can't ignore what happened,' said Bae. 'Maybe it's because I myself am Yoo-Jin and I think it's just impossible to imagine how anyone that's in their right mind would see such a thing happen and ignore it.' However, she does understand why police officers might become numb to the steady onslaught of tragedy they face in their line of work. 'They could become a little bit numb as time passes and, I feel, a little bit less righteous,' said Bae. 'For the character of Yoo-jin, she's still a new officer and she still has a bit of ambition left in her. Another big factor is that Yoo-jin is just as lonely, I would assume, and she is societally neglected, which kind of explains how she reacts, so sensitively and understandingly empathetically with Sohee.' The movie is not just about the impossible situation that trainees encounter at the call center, but illustrates how a highly competitive society might devalue individual human lives. Bae's character Yoo-jin wants to persevere with her investigation, but some of her colleagues are ... More not so determined. 'No matter your age or your socioeconomic status being treated with just basic respect and having basic human rights, that is a big issue," said Bae. 'When I read the script, I understood it very simply. Basically it's not just about call centers or about a particular company or something like that, but how at the very least we should be treating people with basic human rights.' In a recent interview with the Korea Times Bae talked about the kind of societal expectations that might drive a young person to despair. It was part of her motivation for telling the story of Next Sohee. 'The big message is that for young people and young adults in general, I hope that they live a better life and have a better society than us,' said Bae. 'As an actor, I'm always focusing on trying to be empathetic and positive and therapeutic in the ways I can. These days, in modern day society, with pressures that range from social media to parents' expectations or societal pressure and constant comparison, it's a very hard society to live in. I'm just doing my role as an actor to try to spread that positive message and be a little bit of help.' Bae's next project plays with a happier premise. She laughs just thinking about the rom-com film titled Virus, which took more than five years to be released because the COVID pandemic made the subject matter and title less than desirable. The film also stars Kim Yun-seok, Jang Ki-ha and Son Suk-ku. 'The movie Virus is about a virus," said Bae. 'If you get it, you fall in love. It's a big rom-com movie. In the story an antidepressant pharmaceutical company accidentally creates a love virus. My role in the movie is that I have a super cell in my body that keeps me safe from love. My past roles have been darker. I picked it particularly because I wanted a more happy and more loving type of movie.' Bae notes that she never 'officially learned how to act," so in her 20s and 30s her criteria for choosing projects was based on whether she thought she could play the character. 'These days, to be honest, I don't really look at the character when I pick my role,' said Bae. 'Instead, I focus more on the story and the message and the world that the director is trying to portray through the movie. So whether the role is bigger or small, I think in the last 10 years I've been focused more on the bigger story and the meaning.' She sees acting as therapeutic. 'I think being an actor or an actress is such a cool job,' said Bae. 'I love how you get to live the lives of the characters that you are playing in the movie or film. When I do this, I can forget about myself and reality. My personality is quite sensitive and I think my life would be a lot more difficult if I didn't have acting to take place as healing within me. Besides the fact that becoming an actor, you're recognized everywhere and you become a public figure, I think it really is a healing part to my life.' Next Sohee won multiple awards and nominations after its Korean release in 2023, including a Best Screenplay Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards and a nomination for Best Director, as well as a Best New Actress Award for Kim Si-eun and a Best Actress nomination for Bae. Next Sohee hits U.S. and Canadian theaters on May 16 and will soon also be available on streaming platforms. The film is distributed by Echelon Studios.
