The Human Voice; Snowpiercer; The Grand Budapest Hotel; Orlando; We Need To Talk About Kevin; The Souvenir; Michael Clayton; Doctor Strange; A Bigger Splash; Suspiria.
ILLUSTRATIONS SELMAN HOŞGÖR
You trained as a stage actor, but you’ve said it ultimately wasn’t what really interested you, and that “you were looking for film, always”. What did you feel you were able to do as a film actor that you weren’t as a theatre performer?
In actual fact, I never trained at all. I was never really interested in being an actor of any kind. I was a writer and had gone to university as such. But I was smitten with the idea of working in cinema in any way possible, imagining myself more likely in the art department or writing film criticism than ever performing in front of the camera. It was only when I met Derek Jarman, and he opened up before me the possibility of being in film in the unvarnished, unperformative way that his films allowed, that I grew an interest in being a film performer.