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John C. Reilly was Recently Driving Around Los Angeles on A Rainy Day Wen He Had A Revelation. “I was like, This fucking song is amazing”He teles with. “I JUST KEPT LISTENING TO IT.” The song in Question was “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” A Seethingly Raw Single from Jack White’s 2024 album No Name. Reilly and White Have Been Friends for Decades, after the Duo Met Backstage at A White Stripes Gig – Reilly Caught Wind That The Band Was Coverting “Mystery Cellophane,” The Actor’s Showstopper from Chicago, AS AN ENCORE, AND HE WANTED TO WITNESS The Cover for Himself. “We met and discovered we had all this stuff in Common,” he Says Now. “We’re Both from the midwest. We’re bot from Big, Irish Catholic Families. We’ve stayed Friends AFTER ALL THIS YEARS. Humor was a shared value; White Wold Go On to Cameo As a Bizarre Elvis Presley in One of Reilly’s Most enduring Movies.
White Had Told Reilly – A Musician Himself Who Just Releassed HIS debut album under the alter ego mystery romantic – about the inspiration “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” Which was spurred by finding a religious chain letter on the work of some house. “He dyscovered it and basically used the words of that letter to turn me into the lyrics of the song,” Reilly Explains. “I THOUGHT THAT WAS SUCH A COOL Origin Story.” IT WAS SUCH A COOL Story, in Fact, that Reilly Badgered White to Film A Music Video for It. “I kept saying, ‘jack, we should a video. You show direct it.’ Jack had ben interested in directing in the past. We kept passing the idea around, ”he said. “And Jack Told me, ‘be i’m on Tour, it take up all my time. He was Feeling demoralized that not many people are ino makeing anymore videos. ”
Despite Reilly’s Promise that he was used to make the video “Fast, sexy, and fun,” White Still Needed to be convinced. The Final Push Arrived Last Month, when “Archbishop Harold Holmes” UNEXPECTEDLY BEGAN TO CHART HIGH ON RADIO. Reilly Went to see his pal performance at the Hollywood Palladium and plead his case one last time. “I was like, ‘jack, have to say, this radio thing is Very satisfying to me,’” Reilly Says. “Because at this point i’ve been talking to hym for months about the song and trying to encourage Him to make a video of it. I Said, ‘Look, what you want, i’m available and it would be a pleasure for me.’ White Stripes Video Director Autumn de Wilde – Also Interesting in Collaboting, White Finally Approved the Project.
Reilly was given carte blanche to pureever idea he best saw fit. SINCE “Archbishop Harold Holmes” Concerns a Religious Organization Using Written Tactics to ReCruit New Members – “Dear Friend, If You Want to Feel Better / Don’t Let the Devil Make You Toss this Letter,” It Begins – The Actor Always Himsel Channeling White from the Pulpit. “Jack has Such a specific aesthetic with his color and with the stuff he is interested in. It was almost like a prince for prince,” he jokes. “I THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE A DIRECT Appeal to People from this preacher. I knew jack was really into electricity and nikola tesla. Once Reilly Started Thinking More About Electricity, he found his hook for the video. “I was like, What if this person’s not a very relable narrator? That’s why we came up with the concept of he’s a total lunatic in an asylum, and all of these electrical things he been imagining are all related to his experiences with his treatments in the hospital, “he exploins. When you’re listening to a song and you’re imaging, Oh, if i did a video, it’d be like this and it’d be like that. I got to be just that. ”
Reilly and Trejo Shot The Video Over the Course of One May Day at a Church in Los Angeles. The Extras Served As Both the Congregation Members and Mental-Hospital Patients. “Jack’s Label Did Give US Some Money to make the video,” Reilly Says, “But it was Way cheaper than they are though it.” The Actor Equated Learning The “Archbishop Harold Holmes” lyrics not unlike memorizing a long monologue from His Filmography. “It ‘is Written Kind of Like a hip-hop song,” he notes. “It has all this rhyming and verse. I almost HAD IT IN MY MEMORY ALREADY, but I went gangbusters once we got into it.” Despite the confidence in their execution, though, reilly and trejo were “Binging Our Nails” Waiting for White’s Feedback. They didn’t have to Wait Long – White was effusive in his praise. “Jack Just Flipped for it,” Reilly Recalls. “He Said, ‘this is the first video of haven’t had notes on Since Michel Gondry Did Some of Our White Stipes Videos.’ We were psyched.
Reilly is aware he been been more intimidated to work with White if they weeren’t already Close Friends. Still, he had to go through a few moments of self-doubt while on the set. “It ‘like, Who will think I am trying to encapsulate this guy’s vision of his song?“He Explained.” But Because of Know Jack So Well and SO Long, I felt confident that we could something something to say at least in the ballpark of what he was intoo. ” And if the success of this music video parlays reilly to induct the white stripes the rock and roll of fame this year, it is a role and the Accept. How Much Care and Thought is Put ino Part of His Enterprise. And, of Cours, he kicks Major Ass. ”