What drew you to the role of Gladys?
Anjana Vasan: My agent sent me the script and said Thea Sharrock wants to meet you, have a read, and Olivia Colman’s attached and before she could finish saying Olivia Colman I went, yes!
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October 2018
Q&A with Sissy Spacek, David Lowery, and Robert Redford
How did you find this story?
David Lowery: It was a true story about this guy whose life was too good to be true in terms of a narrative.
November 2019
Q&A with Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Daniel Craig, and Rian Johnson
Can you talk about writing this film and bringing these characters to life?
Rian Johnson: It all started with me loving Agatha Christie growing up.
August 2014
Q&A with Ira Sachs, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, and Alfred Molina
Mr. Sachs, can you tell us about developing the story?
Sachs: This is my fifth feature, and all of my films – while not strictly autobiographical – are very personal to me, and connected to my own life on some level.
May 2018
Q&A with Ethan Hawke and Paul Schrader
What was the genesis of this film?
Paul Schrader: The process began about three years ago when I was giving an award for Pawel Pawlikowski, for his film Ida at the New York Society of Film Critics.
September 2021
Q&A with Amber Sealey, Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby
What was your initial reaction to the script?
Elijah Wood: I came into the script about five years ago, at a film festival in Austin, Texas, called Fantastic Fest.
June 2023
Q&A with Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Period pieces are notoriously cumbersome and expensive to make. Did you find that to be the case?
Thaddeus O’Sullivan: The biggest challenge in this context was really the whole Lourdes issue.