Harry Connick Jr. Talks Filming in Cyprus, Touring With His Household, and the One Shocking Factor He Would not Do on a Flight

When Harry Connick Jr. signed on to star within the new Netflix movie Discover Me Falling, the truth that it will be filmed on location in Cyprus was a powerful promoting level.

“After I began studying the script, I [was] like, ‘that is someplace I do not know quite a bit about,’ that is intriguing,” he informed Journey + Leisure in an interview forward of the movie’s July premiere.  

As a world-famous musician, actor, and speak present host, touring the world has been a major a part of his decades-long profession, nonetheless, he was nonetheless excited by the chance to find a brand new place.

“I do know it is most likely laborious to sum up, however at this level in my life, you look ahead to locations that provide you with tradition shock,” he stated. “In case you’ve been to Japan 10 occasions, by the tenth time you go it’s going to have a special feeling than the primary. So getting off a aircraft in Cyprus, a rustic that I knew little about earlier than this movie, after which studying about it, was actually mind-blowing, understanding how previous that tradition is, and why it is thought-about this heart of the world location, and who these persons are, and what’s their relationship with the Turkish folks on the north aspect of the island. It is simply an interesting place.” 

“I simply advocate it,” he added. “It is actually lovely, and you’ll see many of the island in a fairly brief period of time. It is simply beautiful, the meals’s nice, and persons are nice.”

The seasoned traveler, nonetheless, shared that the vibe of his journey might change relying on whether or not his spouse, Jill Goodacre, or daughters Georgia Tatum, 28, Kate, 26, and Charlotte, 22, be part of him or not.

“If I am touring on my own, I am going to simply wander,” Connick informed T+L. “If I am touring with Jill, I am going to ensure that I’ve a listing of actually cool eating places. I need to take her out and do enjoyable issues. And if I am with our ladies, we simply discuss, ‘what are you guys into?’ And if we’re all collectively, we simply sort of resolve. We’re recreation for every little thing.”

“All the things” consists of bungee leaping with Kate a couple of years again, though he stated they haven’t carried out as a lot of these sorts of daring actions in recent times. And no matter the truth that his daughters are adults, the household dynamic stays the identical.

“I really like being with them,” he added, mentioning that Georgia and Kate each visited him whereas filming in Cyprus. “They’re nice vacationers, they usually’re my favourite folks on this planet to be round.”