If you can’t wait to see Hari Nef on screen in Transparent later this year, The Drums’ new music video is here to tide you over. Nef stars as a retro-fabulous girlfriend, going for walks and picnics in the sun with her beau, before things take a slightly hairier, scarier turn… and then go all-out bizarre in a horror / comedy / sexy-dance finale.
The Drums frontman Jonny Pierce says that he met Hari through a friend, over a late night drink in LA. “I was immediately struck with her aura,” he says, explaining that, “I fell in love immediately and the next morning asked her to star in this video. She said yes right away. She’s a punk and also completely relatable with a strong sense of self and a smile to crack the earth in half. I’m sure she’s rolling her eyes reading this right now. We’ve always tried to work with people who are every day — in their own way — nudging the world towards being a more accepting place to live.”
Having moved to LA in June this year, Nef says Pierce was only the third person she met there. “I found him funny, magnetic, stylish, and easy to talk to. I was not surprised when I found out that he was a rock star,” she says, adding that, “When he asked me to feature in the next video for The Drums, I was surprised. I had never envisioned myself as the ingenue of a romantic comedy — even a romantic comedy gone wrong. I related to the video’s notion of embodying cliches in order to break them. Filming was a treat!”
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