The National frontman Matt Berninger has revealed that he's revived his TV project Dos Apes with his brother Tom after a long hiatus caused by a combination of the pandemic and the WGA strike.
Although Berninger didn't reveal too many details about the show, he did disclose that it will act as something of a sequel to the pair's 2013 documentary Mistaken for Strangers, which followed the National on tour as Tom attempted to make something of himself as their road manager.
Speaking to NME, Berninger offered up a little more information on the show's premise.
"It's really cool, joyful and funny. The Mistaken For Strangers doc that Tom, Carin [Besser, his wife and collaborator] and I made captures the spirit of this television show, but it's not going to be a fake doc or anything like that," he said.
"There's a lot of detail from autobiographical things, but not just mine — also Walt Martin and Matt Barrick from the Walkmen have all kinds of stories. Tom, my brother, is essentially the hero of everything. Tom and I play ourselves. My wife isn't in it, but the whole chemistry and DNA of the show is very different than anything I think that exists."
Although he says there's no guarantee that the show will actually come to fruition, Berninger seems a little too excited about it to let it slip through the cracks.
"Who knows? It might not be anything. It might just be on our laptops forever," he said. "I'm not going to drown in projects like I was before, but that is one of them that I really want to do and it might happen."
Although Berninger didn't reveal too many details about the show, he did disclose that it will act as something of a sequel to the pair's 2013 documentary Mistaken for Strangers, which followed the National on tour as Tom attempted to make something of himself as their road manager.
Speaking to NME, Berninger offered up a little more information on the show's premise.
"It's really cool, joyful and funny. The Mistaken For Strangers doc that Tom, Carin [Besser, his wife and collaborator] and I made captures the spirit of this television show, but it's not going to be a fake doc or anything like that," he said.
"There's a lot of detail from autobiographical things, but not just mine — also Walt Martin and Matt Barrick from the Walkmen have all kinds of stories. Tom, my brother, is essentially the hero of everything. Tom and I play ourselves. My wife isn't in it, but the whole chemistry and DNA of the show is very different than anything I think that exists."
Although he says there's no guarantee that the show will actually come to fruition, Berninger seems a little too excited about it to let it slip through the cracks.
"Who knows? It might not be anything. It might just be on our laptops forever," he said. "I'm not going to drown in projects like I was before, but that is one of them that I really want to do and it might happen."
