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Flashbacks of a Fool” drama from director and writer
Baillie Walsh centeres on Joe's teenage years in the 1970s, the film veers, at times erratically, between wistfulness, tragedy and spiky humor.
Daniel Craig plays older fading star Joe Scott who in a downward spiral of sex, drink and drugs returns to his English roots to fully confront his fateful past.
Craig said the film was “a personal journey” for him.
He says it would be “terribly easy” to become like his character Joe Scot, an embittered, fading star who finds no amount of Hollywood hedonism can fill the void within.
“He has failed as a human being, and I wanted to explore that…I think you have to work hard at not becoming disillusioned about what you do for a living,” Craig said. “If you have any success in what you do for a living, you have to maintain an energy and love of it. If you can, that's a great thing,” Craig said.
“Flashbacks of a Fool” will hit US theaters on October 17, 2008
