Why Did Jeremy Strong Dress Like Leprechaun Cypress Hill?

When Jeremy Strong showed up to the Golden Globes looking like House of Pain made a Doublemint gum commercial, everyone just assumed the obvious: What Method acting nonsense is he doing now? You could practically hear Brian Cox punching through a brick wall. Even Anne Hathaway dunked on him, and I don’t think she’s dunked on anyone … ever.

Well, it turns out there is a reason for Strong looking like Buddy the Elf’s coke dealer, and surprisingly, it had nothing to do with Method acting. He was not in character as Jamiroquai’s bath towel, but instead, was actually trying not to be his most current role.

Via Page Six:

Sources exclusively tell Page Six that the “Succession” star, 36, wore the hat for a very specific reason: He was covering up his “wild-looking” hair for his role in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” with Jeremy Allen White.

A source exclusively tells Page Six: “Jeremy is wearing the hat right now because he’s playing Jon Landau in the Bruce Springsteen movie.” And we hear he had to return to the set the next day.

I know what you’re thinking, “Mike, he transformed his hair to look like a character. Is that not Method acting?” No, that is not “the American sh*t” as Cox so lovingly described Strong’s process. (He, uh, he really hated all of that.) This is bread-and-butter hair and makeup work, and we should be encouraging Strong for trying to be a normal person for one night.

Granted, I’m using the term normal loosely because he didn’t have to look like Eminem’s lawyer Pickle Pete, but as far as I can tell, Strong didn’t give red carpet interviews where he claimed to be more velour than man now, every atom in his body softer than next. “What is a best performance if not crushed fabric persevering, dawg?”

(Via Page Six)