Recording of Daisy Edgar-Jones singing the ‘Going Home’ song on Greg James’ show in 2013 has been uncovered
A recording of Daisy Edgar-Jones singing the ‘Going Home’ song on Greg James’ Radio 1 show when she was a teenager has been found.
The segment was part of James’ Drivetime show on Radio 1 between 2012 and 2017 and saw three listeners who were on their way home singing to the tune of ‘Nut Rocker’ by B. Bumble and the Stingers.
The producers of James’ Breakfast show discovered that the Normal People and Twisters actress had sung the song on the show back in 2013, when she was around 15 or 16 years old. On yesterday (July 23)’s instalment of the show, James said that his producer Sophie had spent several days trying to hunt down the audio.
She discovered Edgar-Jones appeared on the show on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 with the help of Edgar Jones’ school friend Tasha, who did the ‘Going Home’ song around the same time They played the clip of her singing “My name is Daisy and I’m going home/My name is Daisy, I’m from Muswell Hill [in north London]/My name is Daisy and I like to yodel…” before she demonstrates her yodeling.
“That is amazing!” a shocked James said.
Edgar-Jones commented on the Instagram post of the audioclip, writing: “Hahahahah oh my goodness I sound like a cartoon.”
In other news, the director of Twisters, Lee Isaac Chung, revealed why a kiss between Edgar-Jones and co-star Glen Powell had been cut from the film.
“I have to say, I like both versions and there were many arguments made to have them kiss. My 13-year-old niece is very mad at me that I didn’t have them kiss because she saw that version and she loved that,” he told Collider.
“But it feels to me that Kate’s journey and the reward at the end for her should not be a kiss, but that she’s found companionship, she’s found community again, and she’s also come back to her sense of purpose, which is chasing these storms. So a storm is coming in, and those two together decide to go out to chase that storm, and I love that ending. So, many apologies to my niece and other people.”
Edgar-Jones had previously told the outlet that the decision was also made after notes from executive producer Steven Spielberg came in and that she had agreed that the kiss should be cut.
“I think it stops the film feeling too clichéd, actually,” she said [via Variety]. “I think there’s something really wonderful about it feeling like there’s a continuation. This isn’t the end of their story. They’re united by their shared passion for something.”
In a five-star review of Twisters, NME wrote: “The flick is also cleverly scripted, with Kate’s motivation slowly teased out as we learn she might just have the means of knocking the ‘nados into a cocked hat. The devastation wreaked by the freaky weather is evocatively explored and in this there’s a timely ecological message. Packed with heart, smarts, jaw-dropping effects and an exquisite ensemble cast (shout out to Harry Hadden-Paton’s nerdy British journalist as comic relief), Twisters will have you singing the praises of the multiplex until the cows come home.”
The film grossed $123million at the global box office in its opening weekend, making it the most successful weekend ever for a disaster movie.
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