All Interview articles – Page 23
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Features“I wanted a sense of faded grandeur”: ‘Empire Of Light’ team on creating the film’s look
Sam Mendes drew on his own life experiences to create Empire Of Light — set in the early 1980s on the south coast of England. Screen talks to the filmmaker and key design department heads.
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FeaturesCharlotte Wells on casting Paul Mescal in ‘Aftersun’: “It was nice to play with an audience’s expectation of him”
Writer/director Charlotte Wells and lead producers Adele Romanski and Amy Jackson tell Screen about the film’s remarkable journey.
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FeaturesWhy Brian Tyree Henry signed up for ‘Causeway’ without reading the script: “I didn’t really care what my part was”
‘Causeway’ actor Brian Tyree Henry discusses working with director Lila Neugebauer and co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
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Features“History, unfortunately, is cyclical”: ‘Blue Jean’ filmmakers on the drama’s important warning
Director Georgia Oakley and producer Hélène Sifre tell Screen why they felt they had to tell this story.
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Features‘Living’ team talk Bill Nighy, positivity and how they nabbed ‘Ikiru’ rights
In converting Japanese film Ikiru to UK drama Living, director Oliver Hermanus, screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro and producer Stephen Woolley were able to add a note of positivity and optimism — as they explain to Screen.
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FeaturesEmma Thompson doesn’t want to be called “brave” for ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ nudity
After a career spanning 40 years, Emma Thompson has taken one of her most daring roles to date.
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FeaturesHow Joseph Kosinski convinced Tom Cruise to make a 'Top Gun' sequel
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski tell Screen about the film’s epic journey.
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NewsThe seven-year fight to bring the ‘The Woman King’ to the big screen
The story of the real-life female warriors who protected an African kingdom is now a major box-office hit
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FeaturesRian Johnson talks ‘Knives Out’ Netflix deal, playing Mafia with ‘Glass Onion’ cast
With Knives Out and sequel Glass Onion, Rian Johnson breathes new life into a film genre that had been neglected by Hollywood for decades.
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Features‘She Said’ writer on the “huge responsibility” to #MeToo survivors
Rebecca Lenkiewicz wanted to honour the journalists and survivors at the centre of the Weinstein scandal.
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FeaturesTodd Field on being given the creative freedom to make ‘TÁR’: “They gave me enough rope to hang myself”
With his first film in 16 years, Todd Field returns with TÁR — a provocative drama about the rise and fall of a classical music star.
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FeaturesSarah Polley on making ‘Women Talking' and why the story meant so much to her
In Women Talking, an ultraconservative religious community’s female members must decide how to confront the sexual abuse they are experiencing. Its writer/director Sarah Polley talks to Screen.
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FeaturesWhy Baz Luhrmann chose to make an Elvis biopic: "He is an amazing canvas"
”Elvis is an amazing canvas because he’s there at the crossroads of culture in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, for the good, the bad and the ugly.”
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FeaturesIn conversation: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell talk ’The Banshees Of Inisherin’ and being “kindred souls”
The Dublin pair spill the beans on the trajectory of a beautiful friendship.
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FeaturesFrom ‘Love Actually’ to ‘Living’: Bill Nighy on his "unspeakably lucky” career
Close to two decades on from his Bafta win for Love Actually, Bill Nighy’s beautifully restrained performance in Living sees him back in the awards conversation — and in a rare big-screen lead role.
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Features“Hollywood is a mean place”: the story behind Brendan Fraser’s ‘Brenaissance’
“I was never that far away, mind you. But in Hollywood years, that can be aeons.”
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FeaturesMicheal Ward on ‘Empire Of Light’ nude scenes: “If Jude Law can do it, I can do it!”
England’s racial divide is probed in Sam Mendes’s 1980s-set Empire Of Light. Actor Micheal Ward tells Screen about the bittersweet film’s toughest moments, romancing Olivia Colman and getting butt naked.
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FeaturesHow Eddie Redmayne prepared to play a serial killer in ‘The Good Nurse’
Actor plays real-life serial killer Charles Cullen.
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FeaturesJanelle Monáe reveals the layers she pulled back to play her character in ‘Knives Out: Glass Onion’
Janelle Monáe tells Screen about her ambition to be a creative power in the film industry.
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Features“I didn’t sleep for two years”: Austin Butler reveals the fear he felt every day on the set of ‘Elvis’
Austin Butler approached the title role of Baz Luhrmann’s biopic ‘Elvis’ with a mix of thrill and terror. The fast-rising star tells Mark Salisbury about his two sleep-deprived years of intense preparation.