Harry Connick Jr. Talks Filming in Cyprus, Touring With His Household, and the One Stunning Factor He Does 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 could be filmed on location in Cyprus was a powerful promoting level.

“Once I began studying the script, I [was] like, ‘that is someplace I do not know loads about,’ that is intriguing,” he advised 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, nevertheless, he was nonetheless excited by the chance to find a brand new place.

“I do know it is in all probability arduous to sum up, however at this level in my life, you look ahead to locations that offer you tradition shock,” he mentioned. “In the event 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 individuals are, and what’s their relationship with the Turkish folks on the north facet of the island. It is simply a captivating place.” 

“I simply advocate it,” he added. “It is actually stunning, and you’ll see many of the island in a fairly quick period of time. It is simply attractive, the meals’s nice, and individuals are nice.”

The seasoned traveler, nevertheless, 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 a part of him or not.

“If I am touring on my own, I am going to simply wander,” Connick advised T+L. “If I am touring with Jill, I am going to be sure that I’ve an inventory of actually cool eating places. I wish to take her out and do enjoyable issues. And if I am with our women, we simply discuss, ‘what are you guys into?’ And if we’re all collectively, we simply form of resolve. We’re sport for all the things.”

“Every little thing” consists of bungee leaping with Kate a number of years again, though he mentioned they haven’t achieved as lots of these varieties of daring actions lately. 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, and so they’re my favourite folks on the planet to be round.”