Capturing the real wild child that is Iggy Pop

Jim Jarmusch was the perfect man to make a film about his friend Iggy Pop and The Stooges, writes Helen Barlow

PUTTING a label on Jim Jarmusch and his films can prove difficult, even for the man himself. In fact, he hates being categorised, something he has struggled with since his hair started turning white in his teens and he donned those trademark dark sunglasses and clothes that make him look like the king of cool.

“I wore dark clothes because I was obsessed with Hamlet, Roy Orbison and Zorrm,” the 63-year old explains. “Then in my 20s when I made Stranger Than Paradise, my first film that got seen, it was in black and white. Someone wrote basically, ‘What a pretentious jackass’. But it was very good because it taught me, ‘F**k ‘em! They don’t know me.’ I don’t give a shit what anyone writes or thinks about me.”