We spoke w/ Olivia Colman & Sam Mendes about EmpireofLight, kitchen zoom conversations, Colin Firth, and why Mendes chose Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross to score the movie.
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes, the personal tale in Empire of Light follows Hilary , a woman who’s trying not to let her difficult past consume her present, even though she’s making some unhealthy choices that push her to the edge. Set in a coastal town in Southern England in the early 1980s, Hilary finds comfort in the Empire Cinema, where she works alongside the newest employee Stephen , and solace in the power of movies.
I had a similar thing with a scene where Michael Ward’s character is introduced to the staff, and I thought, “Well, if he’s meeting the whole staff, there better be a projectionist.” I hadn’t really thought about this projectionist, so I thought, “I better put him in this scene.” And then, he kept popping up, and I thought, “Well, it’s Toby Jones.” But I hit a wall about halfway through writing it, and I didn’t really know what to do.
MENDES: Yeah, it would have. But in answer to your question, I had no backup. I probably would’ve not done it. That’s weird, I know, but it just felt like it was all part of the same thing.MENDES: You need these signs. There are three or four people that I was sending it to, and if any one of them had said, “I don’t like this,” or, “I don’t want to do it,” it would’ve rocked my confidence. When you write it, and you direct it, it’s quite different than when you just direct it.
Olivia, your character is at the center of these two very interesting dynamics in this story, with this relationship she has with her boss, played by Colin Firth, and then the relationship she has with this co-worker who she’s technically the boss of, played by Michael Ward.
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