Sam Mendes was writing the screenplay for what would become Empire of Light and he’d hit a wall. He knew he was writing it for Olivia Colman even though they’d never met. Observing her husband’s fr…
Making the Bond films, he said, was like being an engineer as much as a director. “It’s like erecting scaffolding and building an entire world…,” he said. “It’s exhausting, in a different way.”
I was doing my research and stumbled on an end-of-the-night program on BBC1. There was often a famous person who would read a poem or a story. I found Enoch Powell [an abrasive right-wing British lawmaker]reading a section of Dante; biblical weirdness. Right? That was daily … and at the same time there was The Specials.
I was trying to write what I felt had happened in the last 40 years of my lifetime in the UK which is: Let’s just make everyone friends as opposed to calling people on racism and saying “No, actually, you are in the wrong there, you cannot behave like that.
er, you know this because you’ve been watching my work since I was a baby, and you were a baby, animating other people’s words,could say it’s a springboard for you as a director. You’re also hiding behind the play a little bit, yeah … it’s also partly a commentary on ways that the play had been done up to that point … and then you graduate to screenplays and you get a little closer to the things that are you.
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