When Joe Alvin first arrived at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, he left the trophy with Chopard. He is now back to help director Claire Dennis compete for the Palme d’Or. stars in the evening, based on a novel by Dennis Johnson. Alvin stars in a romantic thriller as a mysterious businessman in Nicaragua who falls in love with an American journalist played by Margaret Kuali. ᲓAdd stars in the eveningAlvin also stars in the BBC Three / Hulu series conversations with friends Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the novel by Sally Rooney, which premiered on May 15th.
Deadline: How did you get involved? stars in the evening?
Joseph Alvin: I came into play quite late. I was literally sent a script on Friday morning to read an email that Claire wanted me to zoom in on that afternoon. “If he is interested and if they want, then she will fly to Panama. Can you go tomorrow? “Claire was already there. So I read the script and obviously I would never stop working with Claire Dennis. A few hours later I walked up to him and he said,” Will you join us? “It was a Friday and I think Tuesday I was on a plane to Panama and we left a few days later. I would have read the script, but it’s based on the book. He hadn’t even been able to leaf through the book before. But hopefully it all happens for a reason.
Deadline: What was it like working with Claire Dennis?
ALWYN: Ეs it was great. He’s unlike anyone he’s ever worked on, and his show is unlike any other set he’s ever been on. He is the power. He is completely unique and himself and a true speaker.
He can know what he wants as cruel and thus be incredibly merciful to what he wants. He seems to me to have found everything in that minute and so … I don’t know. I guess I’m probably still trying to figure out how this works. I don’t think I’ll ever find out how it works. Maybe even he couldn’t answer. It was truly the most unique experience I’ve had on set with the director, but I think it’s absolutely fantastic.
Deadline: What’s your character like?
ALWYN: My character is a mysterious English businessman who is quite mysterious and we know very little about him or why he is in Nicaragua. He gets in the way of Margaret [Qualley]Character or vice versa. And they both play some kind of game and somehow present themselves as someone they are not against in the face of political turmoil, disorder and utter distrust. An environment of total distrust. But in this context, these two strangers, who haven’t talked much about what they have in their hearts, meet and have a strange bond, but then they get into trouble. Well, it’s particularly difficult and they have to cross the border together. Or you have to escape the border, Perhaps Together. This is his narrative, but I believe that like everything else, reading it, there were moments of tenderness of two people who managed to make their way into the environment and the world of mistrust, games and falsehood.
Deadline: How do you prepare for such a character?
ALWYN: I got a chance to do it somehow because it happened at the last minute and all the shots were up and down in the air and put together at the last minute, so it didn’t take a few months. Think about. He was just digging into the script as quickly as possible, what you can get out of it, thinking about parts of the story and parts that could have gone a little deeper, but most of all he instinctively jumped from who he was. Go to the page and with him and go to Claire too and see where she felt. Not only in terms of the backstory of the characters, but you are almost as informed by the way he plays the film and his feelings.
I feel it drives the tone and vibe so much that I do academic homework about who these characters are or where they are, as is the case with all of his films. I think it’s a bit more story-oriented than others, almost animalistic and driven by the same sentiment of dialogue. Dialogue seems to be above all else in his films as a kind of soundtrack. It has more to do with feelings and is obviously created through characters and actors, but it also has a lot to do with everything else, the world, the tones, the colors, the camera and the music. You are only part of it. I think part of the images he creates has to do with the images he creates.
Deadline: What was it like filming in Panama?
ALWYN: It was amazing. I have never been to Panama before. Everything was shot on location, so we got to see a little bit of Panama, but we were also really at the mercy of the weather, which was interesting. It’s great to be on stage and see the amazing worlds you can create in the studio, but there’s something about being in one place that makes it possible. Something. Whatever it is, it’s a little spark that can be different.
It can be great and it can also completely ruin the schedule because you want sun and tropical rain or you want tropical rain and it’s sunny. We were literally at the mercy of time and the world around us, but there was something truly special about it. It was great to see the places Panama has to offer and the people there so friendly. The crew was great. In a way it was pretty chaotic just because logistically it didn’t make sense because you can’t control the sky. But it was a great place to shoot and I’m very happy I was shot there.
Deadline: What are some important points of your time project?
ALWYN: The main one was, in the first place, Claire. And of course Margaret and Panama and all the people we work with. Eric Gauthier fired and everything went great, but Claire was in the lead. It was amazing to see how she taught how she worked and what she wanted, how she communicated with the department heads around him and how it worked. She would be in the trunk of a car. We traveled with him to the city. He was locked in the trunk, shouting instructions in French to those of us sitting in the crowded car, just like the other five people who picked us up, and yelling what he wanted. It’s just a force like nothing else. I was very lucky to go on this crazy journey with him.
Deadline: I return to Cannes for the first time since winning the Chopard Trophy in 2018. what it means to you stars in the evening Will it be your first film to appear in competition?
ALWYN: Ე it’s amazing. Obviously this is such a famous festival and filmmaking festival. This is a special place to see your movie. So there was a part of something that was going on there up to that point, and there was a director like Claire, she went to Cannes and she was obviously French and she was a legend in this world of cinema, she is really special. It was wonderful to go to the awards a few years ago, but also being there with the movie you are in will be a truly amazing experience, I hope.
Deadline: You also have the BBC Three / Hulu series conversations with friends Turns out where you play Nick Conway. What did you do to him?
ALWYN: He’s a man on the mend when you meet him and he’s weathered a bit of a storm. He is a married man who is a bit numb to the world and it works. This love affair begins with a woman who is about 10 years younger than him. It’s about the relationship between him and his wife and also this girl named Frances. He is also quite far away, but he is a man who comes back to life a little.
Deadline: Conway is also an actor, what similarities did you find between his acting career and your career?
ALWYN: I don’t know if I thought about the details of what his career would be like or what he would do with respect to me, but obviously he’s a character who has had ups and downs and who also struggles with mental health and who has probably shaped a lot of things, including his work on With. I think I can relate to the weirdness of the job, its ups and downs and how it can be the best and the hardest to navigate. So even though I didn’t know the details of how our careers could be different, I felt like I could relate to him on a level of understanding of how weird it is to dress up and pretend to be someone they survive for and all. The weirdness that comes from just trying to get this job done.
Term: Did you know this book before starting?
ALWYN: When it came out I read it. I really like Sally Rooney’s books. I’d read it too Normal people When it first came out, the show was postponed. So I was a huge fan of both books. then I saw what they did Normal people And he was also a huge fan of Lenny Abrahamson, which he created Normal peopleSo the case was part of her world and her mind and Sally Rooney’s world and mind combined was really exciting.
Deadline: What was it like working with Lenny Abrahamson?
ALWYN: Ეs it was great. I think it’s really brilliant. He is an extraordinary director. He works in a lot of detail, he reads material, almost hitting and looking for every second that might be there in a very subtle way. But he is never too involved in this and is also very cooperative. I like his very naturalistic, very subtle, very intimate worlds of him that he has created, obviously lately. Normal people, but also in many of his other works. It feels very reasoned and very real, and too much of what is not said and what is said. And besides, as a person, he is the most beautiful person in the world. Fun and just a great friend.
Source: Deadline
