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Interviews

Kneecap: ‘There was no word for cocaine in Irish’

by Rógan Graham

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Pró­vaí, bet­ter known as Kneecap, (plus direc­tor Rich Pep­pi­att) give the low­down on the cre­ation of their rau­cous qua­si-biopic, which cap­tures the for­ma­tion of their rap trio in Belfast and the ongo­ing fight to save the Irish language.
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Naomi Ackie: ‘I know that feeling of wanting something that is just out of reach’

by Leila Latif

The star of Zoë Krav­itz’s vaca­tion thriller Blink Twice talks through her con­nec­tion to her char­ac­ter, a past life as a wait­ress and learn­ing to slow down.
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Zoë Kravitz: ‘Directing is what I’ve always wanted to do’

by Leila Latif

The co-writer, pro­duc­er and direc­tor of Blink Twice reflects on the long jour­ney her first fea­ture took from idea to actualisation.
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Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and surreal when you’re in it’

by Hannah Strong

Two rel­a­tive new­com­ers to Team Lan­thi­mos reflect on learn­ing to trust the process.
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Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’

by Hannah Strong

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the par­tic­u­lars of Yor­gos Lanthimos’s method with actors.
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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’

by Hannah Strong

Emma Stone and Jesse Ple­mons attempt to deci­pher the codes and mean­ings in Kinds of Kindness.
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’

by Hannah Strong

The co-writ­ers of Kinds of Kind­ness reflect on their endur­ing part­ner­ship and putting their char­ac­ters through the ringer.
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Jeff Nichols: ‘It’s a very intoxicating thing, riding on a bike’

by Hannah Strong

After get­ting his motor­cy­cle license and pon­der­ing the sto­ry for two decades, the direc­tor of The Bik­erid­ers explains what drew him to Dan­ny Lyon’s icon­ic pho­to­book doc­u­ment­ing the lives of a 1960s motor­cy­cle gang.
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‘It was hard to hit me in the face with the steak’ – Jon Heder on 20 years of Napoleon Dynamite

by Simon Bland

Two decades on from an unlike­ly cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­non, the star of Jarred Hes­s’s lo-fi cult clas­sic talks Moon Boots, Jamiro­quai and doing his own stunts.
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Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these weren’t The Beatles?”’

by Michael Leader

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behe­moth Bea­t­les biopic, the direc­tor of 1994 ear­ly-Bea­t­les dra­ma Back­beat reflects on the sto­ry of Stu­art Sut­cliffe – the Bea­t­le who wasn’t.