All Interview articles – Page 15
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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.
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Features“Then I got the knee sweats”: Cate Blanchett recalls the moment after she said yes to ‘TÁR’
In TÁR, Cate Blanchett plays a brilliant classical conductor whose revered status is enabling her own bad behaviour.
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FeaturesIn conversation: ‘The Blue Caftan’, ‘Under The Fig Trees’ directors talk tradition vs modernity and Oscar campaigns
The directors of The Blue Caftan and Under The Fig Trees — Morocco and Tunisia’s entries to this year’s Oscars — discuss how the collision of tradition and modernity in their work reflects a region in transition.
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Features‘Moonage Daydream’ director: making David Bowie documentary was like “walking across hot coals”
“The whole structure around me was chaotic.”
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Features‘Triangle Of Sadness’ team break down infamous vomit scene: “It was like a ballet”
Ruben Ostlund and his team were aiming for ”the best puke scene in film history”.
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FeaturesSS Rajamouli on the runaway success of ‘RRR’: “It seems unstoppable”
Screen talks to big-scale, bold-canvas filmmaker SS Rajamouli.
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Features“Every society has imperfections, every society deals with it”: Red Sea programmers on curating in Saudi Arabia
Kaleem Aftab and Antoine Khalife talk Screen through the 2022 selection.
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FeaturesAna de Armas on playing Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’: “The heaviness and sadness of it did stay with me for a bit”
Ana de Armas threw herself into a role that required her to navigate dark and disturbing places.