Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Eurovision Song Contest : The Story of Fire Sagais on the button what it sounds like – a fun romp in which two aim singers assay to win Eurovision for the glorification of their country . In this guinea pig , the nation is Iceland and the dreamer are Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams .
But while there is music and honey in the story , the real heart issue forth from Lars ’ ( Ferrell ) relationship with his father ( play by Pierce Brosnan ) . Ferrell , who also co - wrote the movie , divvy up some insight into that dynamic and into his own experience with Eurovision in anticipation of the June 26 release .
I went down a severe rabbit fix last night with Eurovision , because I did not recognise it was real . It ’s a dangerous rabbit hole down the YouTube cycle . I do it you ’ve been involved with need to do this for a couple years . You were in Lisbon , I believe , in 2018 researching some of this stuff . What was it about the premise of Eurovision that get your tending ?
Will Ferrell : You screw , it ’s funny . I literally was aware of Eurovision , like , it ’s been 20 positive years . The first time I got any variety of puff of air of it was confab with my wife and her category in Sweden , and we happened to be there in Spring in May , during the contest . We were having dinner party , and at the remainder of dinner everyone order , " Now it ’s time to watch Eurovision . " I ’m like , " Okay , what is that ? " And then I do n’t suppose I said a Logos for the next three minute . I ’m just like , " What is this matter ? This is incredible . "
Just between the staging , the costume , the kitschy - cape of the songs - and then some of the songs are actually really good . And it was just such a [ leap ] from the sublime to the ridiculous , and I just remember in that here and now thinking that would make a great movie . But I always thought that someone in Europe would have done it .
And around five year ago , two years before Lisbon , we went to the competition in Copenhagen , Denmark . That was the first literal time I was there , and that was the year Conchita Wurst for Austria won . And we were like , " We have to do this . " It took a while to get it go , but I ’m so well-chosen this instant is here . That citizenry are in the end obtain to see the labor , the labor of our body of work .
You and I both are USC Trojans , and I saw that there ’s a little pigeonholing of Americans wearing ASU gear . Was that a small Easter ballock to your Pac 12 roots ?
Will Ferrell : That was Pac 12 fellowship right there . That was also a perfect company school to make fun of , because at USC , we ’re alumnus of a fine academic establishment now . When I was there , maybe not so much , but now it ’s really gruelling to get into . ASU ? You know , anyone can get in there .
One of the thing I really eff about this film was it had a lot of heart . Can you explain how Lars ' father , play by Pierce Brosnan , mold your character in this film ?
Will Ferrell : Yes . You sleep with , Lars is kind of this dreamer who was always enamored with Eurovision from when he was a small child , the year that Abba make headway for " Waterloo " . Sigrit ’s always been at his side , play by Rachel McAdams , and he ’s always been the oddball . He never really get the attending and the love from his beginner , and Pierce is so arrant as this incubation - literally we wrote in the handwriting , " The most beautiful human race in all of Iceland . "
He always just was trying to get his father ’s love , and in the terminal , he thinks he ’s break him . And it really is his founding father who - Lars is ready to throw it all away and just become a fisherman like his father and his father ’s beginner , and it ’s really Pierce ’s character who kind of says , " You do n’t translate . You ’ve had the grit to comply your ambition , and you should get back out there and preserve . " He kind of has this about - font and usher him that he really has admire this journey he ’s been on the whole clip , which Lars had no estimate that ’s the way he felt about him .
More : Read Screen Rant ’s Eurovision Song Contest Review
Eurovision Song Contestis now streaming on Netflix .