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KEVIN SPACEY TELLS ANDY DOUGAN OF HIS MUSICAL MISSION.KEVIN Spacey is famous for putting a lot of research into his big screen roles. But it is doubtful whether the Oscar winning actor has ever prepared for anything as long as he has for his latest film.
Spacey admits that he has really been preparing to play 1950s singer Bobby Darin for most of his life. In Beyond the Sea, Spacey plays the doomed Darin, a man who died tragically young but lived his life in a hurry. Darin and Spacey first crossed paths when the actor was only a boy living with his parents in the San Fernando Valley.
"It was the music," Spacey confesses. "My parents had a huge record collection. My dad had this enormous collection of old 78s. There were big bands and all that amazing brass, great singers like Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald. And in the middle of all that there were a lot of Bobby Darin records."
Spacey muses that he and Darin must have grown up listening to the same kind of music. It was only when he became older and read a few books and articles about Darin that Spacey realised what a fascinating story Darin's life made. "People don't realise how much of Bobby's music they know," Spacey points out. "If I sing Mack the Knife or Splish Splash or Beyond the Sea people will say 'Yeah, that's Bobby Darin'. But then he also sang If I Were a Carpenter, and protest songs about the Vietnam war, and country songs.
"He attacked as many musical genres as he could in what was a relatively short 15-year career," says Spacey pointing out that only probably Elvis Presley and Ray Charles have had as many hits in so many styles. Darin was a driven man. Stricken with rheumatic fever as a child, his heart was left permanently scarred. Darin knew he wouldn't make old age and, as Spacey sees it, that's why he was so keen to experiment.
"That's the real challenge in playing him," he explains. "He would adapt his voice for different musical styles and that's why he 's not as famous as Sinatra, for example. You look for a Bobby Darin disc in a record store and he'll be in about 30 different sections."
It was in the late 1980s that Kevin Spacey got the notion to make a film about Bobby Darin's life. He knew there had been a film in development at Warner Brothers almost since Darin died in 1973. "I desperately wanted to play that role but oddly enough they didn't want to cast this unknown theatre actor fresh from New York," he says dripping sarcasm.
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There was still one major problem - they had no director. Spacey had approached a number of directors and one or two were in talks but it became impossible to get schedules to mesh. Since he was already almost 10 years older than Darin was when he died, the 45-year-old Spacey bit the bullet and decided to direct himself.
• Beyond the Sea (12a) opens in Glasgow tomorrow.
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