ContactMusic.com posted on their website HERE with the caption:
“FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS star JEMAINE CLEMENT was left covered in a hot beverage on Tuesday (15Mar11) after a heated altercation with a photographer outside his New York hotel.. The New Zealand native was returning to his Manhattan residence when he became involved in an angry exchange with a paparazzo, which ended when the snapper threw the drink at the actor, drenching his coat in the process.. . Jemaine Clement. ‘Flight of the Conchords’ star returning to his hotel, moments before he was left covered in a hot beverage after a photographer threw it all over him. This followed an alleged scuffle with Clement and the photographer outside his Manhattan hotel. New York City, USA – 15.03.11. ”
If you’d like to see more pictures of the incident, click the provided link below.
(pictures via ContactMusic.com)
If you’d like to skip directly to his interview, go to 1:21
Uploaded on YouTube by WhatTheFolk.net on Apr 2, 2011
Description:
“Jemaine Clement is interviewed by Edith Bowman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the premiere of the film ‘Rio’. Jemaine is the voice of the character, Nigel. First broadcast on 2nd April 2011, Channel 4, 9:30am in the UK. No copyright infringement intended.”
Thisisfakediy.co.uk just recently posted an interview with Jemaine (on March 30th) about his role in Rio at the world premiere in Brazil! The interview is posted below
“How did you get involved in the movie?
I don’t know! I happened to be in LA and Carlos and his team showed me little short tests of the film. They had animated my character to a speech I had in Flight of the Conchords – it was really quite weird to see this bird talking like me.
Was there a script at that stage?
No, they didn’t quite have the script when we started – it wasn’t there yet. I can’t even remember if they had a script at all back then. You don’t know what’s going to happen as they’re still developing it, and you go back all the time and re-record your stuff later down the line, and you’re working on the story with them.
Being a writer yourself did you get a chance to improvise or write?
I wrote the song that I do, and I improvised too, but I don’t know quite how much of that was used as I haven’t seen it yet.
What can you tell us about your character?
Well, I’m not playing a human – I’m playing a bird. There are kind of two worlds, the humans and the birds and they don’t speak the same language, in a way. Mostly the humans talk to humans and the birds talk to birds, but he’s supposedly a former soap opera actor, like a star bird. He was in a show but he was fired and a better looking bird took over, so now he’s out to get revenge on all good looking birds. He’s quite shallow, but it was really fun to do.
Click the link below to read the rest of the interview!
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Foxallaccess.blogs.fox.com posted the video with the description “At the “Rio” world premiere’s “Blu carpet” event, Fox All Access talked with a couple of the movie’s stars, Anne Hathaway and Jemaine Clement (yes, from “Flight Of The Conchords”). Hathaway told us what she loved most about her character, while Clement talked about his favorite part of making the movie.”
Although we can’t embed the video on here, you can check it out by clicking the link below:
http://Foxallaccess.blogs.fox.com
They talk to Jemaine about 30 seconds in. Click away!