Parlophone RecordsMary Poppins actor Dick Van Dyke has a starring role in Coldplay’s latest music video, as they prepare to celebrate their 99th birthday.
Filmed at his beach house in Malibu.the moving video sees the star reminiscing about her life and reflecting on ageing.
“I’m fully aware that I could go any day now,” he says, “but I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me. I’m not afraid of it. I just have a feeling that I know.” Get well.”
Set to the ballad All My Love, the video was co-produced by Mary Wigmore and Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Jonze, whose films include Being John Malkovich, Her and Adaptation.
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Running for seven minutes, it is a poignant and intimate portrait of the beloved actor, whose other credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bye Bye Birdie and the TV show Diagnosis: Murder.
He allows filmmakers to tour his home, which displays memorabilia from his films – including a life-size replica of Burt, his chimney sweep character in Mary Poppins.
The star also regenerates. Twizzle (an impossibly flexible routine from his 1960s TV sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show) Chris Martin serenaded her on his patio. and dances barefoot with his wife Arlene Silver.
But the most emotional moment comes when he talks about his four children, Christian, Barry, Stacey and Carrie Beth.
Van Dyke looks fondly at the photo of Stacey being read a bedtime story, revealing: “I’ve had dreams where I’m depressed or lonely or in pain, and she comes to comfort me. She actually comes to comfort me.”
Parlophone RecordsHis family — including dozens of grandchildren — appear later in the video, dancing and singing along with the actor, who tells Martin he’s particularly taken with a line from All My Love: “Till I Die / If You Cry I’ll Hold You“
The video ends with Martin belting out a song for Star, who watches in amazement as the music comes to life.
“Do we have this on film?” he asks. “Can you believe this man?”
Parlophone RecordsAll My Love is the latest single from Coldplay’s 10th studio album, Moon Music, which debuted at number one in October.
The group took a quirky approach to promoting the record, Host a segment on the shopping channel QVC, and Filming a quick video for the song We Pray in the middle of Dublin’s Grafton Street, shortly before playing a show at the city’s Croke Park Stadium.
An earlier video for All My Love also featured Chris Martin. Walking the streets of Las Vegas in disguisesinging karaoke and handing out balloons to strangers… a scene that Van Dyke briefly recreated in the latest clip.
The video will premiere on the band’s YouTube channel on Friday, December 18 at 13:30GMT. A short revision will be released on December 13, Van Dyck’s birthday.