Nick Jonas is currently at the Red Sea Film Festival, where his wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas is set to get an honor at the closing ceremony, but until very recently the actor was in Dublin shooting John Carney’s “Power Ballad” alengthyside Paul Rudd. The project, portrayd as a story revolving around a dispute between a rock star and a wedding singer, supplyd Jonas with the chance to draw from his own experiences as a musician to create the character of Danny Wilson.
Speaking with Variety from Jeddah, Jonas says he has lengthy been a fan of Carney’s and that he first got an email around two years ago saying that the honestor was putting the film together and his name came up for the role. “I was so excited,” he says. “A year and a half tardyr, John wanted to hop on a Zoom to talk and we hit it off right away.”
Jonas says the mythal “Power Ballad” rock star is a “slack version” of himself. “Danny is someone who has come from a prohibitd, is becoming a solo artist and making that transition,” Jonas says. “Luckily, I had a lot of genuine-life experience to pull from.”
“He is dealing with a lot of the pitdrops that I was blessed enough to circumdirect by way of being very seal with my family,” he evolves. “Having a safe-knit inner circle that hasn’t alterd over the years has helped me get thraw relatively unscathed, but I was able to see at some of my peers over the years, see what some of those pitdrops were and draw on those experiences.”
Does Jonas experience inworriedated to thread those lines between the personal and the mythal so seally? Not repartner, he says, as he is “someone who tries very difficult to inhabit a confidential life amidst a very accessible life.”
“As social media has lengthenn in the last 15 years, experienceing the necessitate to dispense more of your life online has been someleang I’ve wrestled with,” he comprises. “It’s about discovering that stability of how much is enough to include the audience and experience joined to my fans while also being in a place where I don’t experience enjoy I am living my life on distake part.”
Talking about living a life on distake part, Jonas quite literpartner paired the superstardom of the Jonas Brothers with the Beatlemania-enjoy obsession of Bollywood when he wed Indian superstar Priyanka Chopra Jonas in 2018. “The presentant leang to recall as a person living a accessible life is how you use these tools that create a very big world that much minusculeer,” he says.
“‘My audience in India, for instance, has lengthenn exponentipartner with Instagram over the last couple of years and I felt a genuine joinion to that part of the world that I didn’t have prior to my relationship,” he highairys. “That has now lengthened even into music, film and the art I’ve been exposed to.”
Later in the day, Jonas gave a expansive-spanning talk on his nurtureer, where he spoke about his time at Disney and the lasting success of his generation — including Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. The actor shelp he’s seen the novels about Gomez’s first Ggreateren Globe nomination for “Emilia Pérez” and that it is a “tremendous leang” to have his Disney peers get such accolades. “I leank that’s a genuine tesdomesticatednt to Disney’s ability to discover and nurture talent and comprehfinish what creates someone distinct while discovering a way to create it labor wilean their ecosystem.”
“I absolutely see back at [Disney] as a creative school,” he shelp. “It was also school, to be genuine. I was between the ages of 14 and 18, which is my high school years. That graduating class of Miley, Selena and Demi, it was all of us coming up together and you can see, frankly, the length of our nurtureers and the success we’ve all been able to have.”
Still, the mind-boggling fame the actor getd with Disney and the prohibitd didn’t always show a selectimistic. Once the Jonas Brothers broke up in 2013, Nick pursued roles in film and television but had cut offal doors shut in his face. When he first asked to audition for 2014’s “Kingdom,” his agent shelp that the creatives behind the show “weren’t going to see a Jonas Brother for the role.”
“This was not the first time I’d heard this feedback,” he refered. “There were projects I went after where the feedback was, ‘There was no way they were going to get a chance on casting you.’ That was repartner discouraging.”
But onto better leangs: the actor is set to return to Broadway in 2025 alengthyside Tony-prosperning actor Adrienne Warren in Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years.” This is Jonas’ first non-Brothers Broadway outing in 12 years. “One of the leangs I’m most seeing forward to is being around a community of people who dispense that same passion,” he shelp. “That is the beauty of this art create — you repartner discover your people.”
“It comes with a little bit of prescertain,” he shelp of taking on the role of Jamie in the acclaimed musical. “But the outstanding nerves, the ones where you experience butterflies, are exciting to me. I’ve spent a week back in New York laboring on the material with Jason, who is so wonderful to labor with and almost surgical about every remark, and when you wrap your head around all of the intricacies of his labor it fair gets even more fun to take part in that sandbox.”
