How are you doing?
Nice to see you as well.
Congratulations on the film.
I think it's first and foremost, how excited
are you to be back in the cinema with the community
back at the festival, given we haven't done it for a long time?
It's great to be at the pictures.
And also this particular cinema is such a lovely song.
It's just generally
just to get in to a screen and have some popcorn and noise going on.
It's lovely. Not too much, but the chances are you a sweet or salted
man?. Yes, I like a mix myself, but never mind.
I'm like that working with Terence Davies.
I mean, he's such a formidable force of nature as a,
such a formidable force in nature as a filmmaker.
What was it like working with him and being among him
and watching him, his process and how he makes these amazing films?
I'm a huge fan of Terence's, so I was just thrilled
to be asked to do this
and just to see him work.
Incredible, because he does it his own way.
He has his own way of working.
He has such an acute
sensibility about the way things look
and the way things feel and the rhythms of things.
And it's wonderful to have a director like that
because you can just give yourself over to them completely
if you trust them, which I do, because I think it's possible.
You know, our greatest living director.
So whatever he wants me to do, I'll do - a testament to him
as a director that he's able to bring such an incredible ensemble together.
I just it just shows just how desperate people are to to work with him
and want to be part of his project while he's the real fan.
You know, he's an artist who works in film,
and he also has a very deep connection with
our culture, with British history
and how it comes to be the way it is.
It belongs to us.
And we should cherish and we should be very
protective of him because he's there.
There are very few and far between in this business.
Directors of this stature.
And what drew you to this story and this and this character?
Because it's a period that we've seen a few times.
But in Terence's,
under his guidance, it feels fresh and new and interesting.
Yeah, well, it's Terence that drew me to it wanted to make, you know.
Biography of I don't know anybody, I would have
I would have thought...
That was a terrible answer!
I was trying to figure out exactly what you said, that
I was thinking of his imagined Terence , Davies's suicide squad.
I mean, which you had gone to that wouldn't
you have been a bit different in terms of wanting to make a superhero movie?
I'd be there as well. I'd love to say that
whatever he wants to make, I'm happy to be in it.
And you've had a you've had a fantastic year with this
and a few other projects, obviously, Suicide Squad.
You were fantastic.
And it was really working with James Gunn.
Must have been so much fun. So colorful.
Yeah, totally different, really, because I did I finished that in January of 2020.
And then we did this in the little gap between the two lockdowns.
But we were about to do this.
And then the first lockdown prevented it.
But because we locked
the sets were there we were able to jump in it.
So it was very weird moving from James, who, again,
is an extraordinary filmmaker, again, with a very profound vision of his own.
I felt very blessed to be working at these different ends of the scale.
Yeah, I just to just finally, obviously, you going to watch this
with an audience tonight.
The the energy is so unique in the cinema community.
How excited are you to to see with an audience
and to get their reactions when for a year and a half
they've been watching it on their phones or on their laptops?
I think it's very important for people to see things in the cinema because it has
a lens of life, a kind of energy that doesn't happen when you watch alone.
It's lovely to feel people's reactions, to hear people's reactions
and have the sense that it's a communal experience.
So I'm delighted that this was the scene on the big screen
in front of real life people.
So it's nice talking to you, as always. Thanks so much for your time.
Have a good evening. Thank you.