Midland (Photo by Harper Smith)
Mark Wystrach Talks Working With Jessica Chastain
Mark Wystrach of Midland plays Gospel singer Gary Paxton in the film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
He gets to sing with Jessica Chastain, who plays Tammy, and they do a love scene together.
Mark said the sex scene wasn’t even close to being hot.
“It was really funny and very technical. You’ve got cameras in front of you and you’re just trying not to laugh. It’s one of the most surreal and incredible things, and she was a [good] sport. I think at one point we had to stop filming, and everyone laughed for 10 minutes.”
In a different interview, Mark says Midland’s music has been changing to match each member’s relationship status.
He was going through a breakup during the first album, and now he’s “in a beautiful functioning relationship.”
“On the first album I was going through a breakup, and so much of those feelings can be universal. You show me somebody with a perfect relationship and I’ll show you some psychopaths. The natural state is to have friction. And now I’m in a beautiful functioning relationship that knows how to deal with problems, address them healthily, and then resolve, and then essentially grow from that. And I feel like that’s what we’ve all done from On the Rocks. We all three as individuals have grown. As musicians and songwriters we’ve grown, which comes from living, which comes from practicing, which comes from playing and experiencing.”
