Mick Jagger may be turning 80 on July 26, but really he seems ageless. As a rock icon, the Rolling Stone has been honored for his singing, his stage moves and his songwriting. Less celebrated, but…
In October 1969,ran a story about “Performance,” saying it had been on the shelf since 1968 because Warner Bros. execs thought it was “unintelligible.” But a new regime, including the well-respected John Calley, liked what they saw, with one source saying “They think it’s one of the hottest pictures they have.”finally reviewed it in August 1970 and A.D. Murphy agreed with the earlier regime, saying the film was a “substandard crime meller ,” adding it was strictly “for the psychedelic set.
It was not an auspicious acting start, and Jagger’s other 1970 film had a more immediate impact: the Maysles brothers’ documentary “Gimme Shelter,” showing theIn May 1970, shortly before either narrative film was released,did a roundup of British talent who were relatively new to film. The list included Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen, Dudley Moore, Helen Mirren, Charlotte Rampling — and Jagger.
But over the past 50 years, he remained selective, and has taken on just a few roles. They include playing a drag queen in the 2015 “Bent”; a jaded business exec running an escort agency in George Hickenlooper’s “The Man From Elysian Fields” ; and an art dealer in 2019’s “The Burnt Orange Heresy.”
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