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INTERVIEWS FROM THE YEAR 2016

Anthropoid - 2016
Dunkirk - 2016

INTERVIEWS FROM THE YEAR 2016

Anthropoid - 2016
Dunkirk - 2016

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When someone watches a historical film like this one do you hope they take something from it that's applicable today?No. I don't believe in films being prescriptive. I believe audiences should be left to their own devices as to what they take from the picture and what resonates with them. I don't think it should be our decision to tell you how to feel. You should just feel what you feel. And if people think that the film is in some way prescient or has some relevance to what's happening now, then good. And if not that's okay as well.When you were approached to do the film did you already know this story?No, I didn't. But Sean Ellis, who wrote and directed it, he had been living with the story for like 10 or 15 years, so he was a major fountain of knowledge and he gave us all the materials we needed to be immersed in the story. So I became quickly educated on it.What sort of research did you do?I read all the relevant materials. And the whole experience was greatly enhanced by actually shooting in Prague and shooting at a lot of the real locations. We spent a lot of time in the actual church where the siege happened. You could see the real bullet holes, you could see where the grenades exploded. They're all there. It's profoundly moving to walk around there. And our crew was Czech and we had a lot of Czech actors in the film. Sean was very clear that he wanted it to be as authentic as possible.

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When someone watches a historical film like this one do you hope they take something from it that's applicable today?No. I don't believe in films being prescriptive. I believe audiences should be left to their own devices as to what they take from the picture and what resonates with them. I don't think it should be our decision to tell you how to feel. You should just feel what you feel. And if people think that the film is in some way prescient or has some relevance to what's happening now, then good. And if not that's okay as well.When you were approached to do the film did you already know this story?No, I didn't. But Sean Ellis, who wrote and directed it, he had been living with the story for like 10 or 15 years, so he was a major fountain of knowledge and he gave us all the materials we needed to be immersed in the story. So I became quickly educated on it.What sort of research did you do?I read all the relevant materials. And the whole experience was greatly enhanced by actually shooting in Prague and shooting at a lot of the real locations. We spent a lot of time in the actual church where the siege happened. You could see the real bullet holes, you could see where the grenades exploded. They're all there. It's profoundly moving to walk around there. And our crew was Czech and we had a lot of Czech actors in the film. Sean was very clear that he wanted it to be as authentic as possible.

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When someone watches a historical film like this one do you hope they take something from it that's applicable today?No. I don't believe in films being prescriptive. I believe audiences should be left to their own devices as to what they take from the picture and what resonates with them. I don't think it should be our decision to tell you how to feel. You should just feel what you feel. And if people think that the film is in some way prescient or has some relevance to what's happening now, then good. And if not that's okay as well.When you were approached to do the film did you already know this story?No, I didn't. But Sean Ellis, who wrote and directed it, he had been living with the story for like 10 or 15 years, so he was a major fountain of knowledge and he gave us all the materials we needed to be immersed in the story. So I became quickly educated on it.What sort of research did you do?I read all the relevant materials. And the whole experience was greatly enhanced by actually shooting in Prague and shooting at a lot of the real locations. We spent a lot of time in the actual church where the siege happened. You could see the real bullet holes, you could see where the grenades exploded. They're all there. It's profoundly moving to walk around there. And our crew was Czech and we had a lot of Czech actors in the film. Sean was very clear that he wanted it to be as authentic as possible.

Anthropoid

When someone watches a historical film like this one do you hope they take something from it that's applicable today?No. I don't believe in films being prescriptive. I believe audiences should be left to their own devices as to what they take from the picture and what resonates with them. I don't think it should be our decision to tell you how to feel. You should just feel what you feel. And if people think that the film is in some way prescient or has some relevance to what's happening now, then good. And if not that's okay as well.When you were approached to do the film did you already know this story?No, I didn't. But Sean Ellis, who wrote and directed it, he had been living with the story for like 10 or 15 years, so he was a major fountain of knowledge and he gave us all the materials we needed to be immersed in the story. So I became quickly educated on it.What sort of research did you do?I read all the relevant materials. And the whole experience was greatly enhanced by actually shooting in Prague and shooting at a lot of the real locations. We spent a lot of time in the actual church where the siege happened. You could see the real bullet holes, you could see where the grenades exploded. They're all there. It's profoundly moving to walk around there. And our crew was Czech and we had a lot of Czech actors in the film. Sean was very clear that he wanted it to be as authentic as possible.