The Hour

Juliette Lewis is one of Hollywood’s most established actresses and has shared the big screen with the likes of Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp and George Clooney.

The multi-talented artist has been delving in the world of music for the last few years with her band Juliettte and The Licks and laterally, by herself as a solo artist.

“I really love the cinema but music requires much more of myself than movies,” Juliette said.

“I didn’t do movies for the last five years because I really wanted to find my audience, and really, really tour – to discover myself musically and really get into it.”

Juliette and The Licks broke up a year and a half ago after band member Tod went his own way.

“I was disillusioned and felt abandoned,” Juliette reflected.

The Hollywood star decided to put all her emotions into a new kind of music and began working alongside Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta to create a fresh new sound.

“It was a really personal record I wrote called Terra Incognita, which means unknown territory or unexplained territory, and that’s where I wanted to go, as a songwriter, and emotionally – to just get a bit deeper lyrically, in the groove.”

Recently finishing her tour of America, Juliette has flown across the pond to start a UK tour of her new album.

“I love playing Scotland I’m sure anybody will tell you…. it’s one of the best rock’n’roll crowds.

“[Scottish crowds are] mental, lively, proper hooligans, I don’t know if you use that in a bad way but I mean it in a good way!”

Despite never being formally trained in acting, it was her skills in the blockbuster hits that brought Juliette international success.

“The experience of working with [Robert De Niro] was so profound, so creatively deep,” she said. “He is just an intense energy in our scenes together. He was wonderful and gracious.

“I also enjoyed working with Leonardo a lot. I felt that we worked really similar. He is really intuitive and really down to earth as a person.”