of streaming and a world where they re not licensing their products out to other broadcasters, they re keeping them for themselves to grow subscriber base. they have not yet offered to pay appropriately to the union s working members, and it s very important that they do so. and i think you never want a strike. you never want industrial action, but there are times where it s necessary. this is one of those times. and we have three blockbuster films coming out right now. we ve got mission impossible, yourfilm and barbie. and much is being made of barbie and yourfilm going head to head. i think there s even a term being used that you might not want to hear barbie heimer or or something, but how do you read that? i think any of us who care about theatres and i mean, it really speaks to the earlier question. you know, we ve been desperate for a crowded marketplace for the years since covid, and it s finally happening. and for all of us who care about the cinema experience and movies, it s
to the union s working members, and it s very important that they do so. and i think you never want a strike. you never want industrial action, but there are times where it s necessary. this is one of those times. and we have three blockbuster films coming out right now. we ve got mission impossible, yourfilm and barbie. and much is being made of barbie and your film going head to head. i think there s even a term being used that you might not want to hear barbie heimer or or something, but how do you read that? i think any of us who care about theatres and i mean, it really speaks to the earlier question. you know, we ve been desperate for a crowded marketplace for the years since covid, and it s finally happening. and for all of us who care about the cinema experience and movies, it s wonderful. fortheatres, it s a great, great thing. we haven t spoken about cillian murphy, but he clearly is so key to so many of your films and now a lead in your movie. did it feel i think you ve comp
to other broadcasters, they re keeping them for themselves to grow subscriber base. they have not yet offered to pay appropriately to the unions working members, and it s very important that they do so. and i think you never want a strike. you never want industrial action, but there are times where it s necessary. this is one of those times. and we have three blockbuster films coming out right now. we ve got mission impossible, yourfilm and barbie. and much is being made of barbie and yourfilm going head to head. i think there s even a term being used that you might not want to hear barbie heimer or or something, but how do you read that? i think any of us who care about theatres and i mean, it really speaks to the earlier question. you know, we ve been desperate for a crowded marketplace for the years since covid, and it s finally happening. and for all of us who care about the cinema experience and movies, it s wonderful. fortheatres, it s a great, great thing. we haven t spoken abou
have a kind of gloss finish. you think about the characterisation that ronald searle comes up with in those drawings, those kind of quite spindly characters. they re sort of etiolated figures. is there a link, do you think, in those characters, between those characters and some of the characters that you create in yourfilm? i think the important thing about searle being an inspiration, or, if you like, an influence on me, it s not so much about specific characters. it s about a way of looking at the world. i mean, if you look at my characters in my films, and indeed plays. ..it s never i never allow it to be described as naturalism, it s realism, it gets to the essence of what s real. i mean, you have to believe in it being absolutely real when you see in the moment when you see it. but there s a certain, there s an edge, there s a distillation. there s a heightening, which is a natural thing for an artist like ronald searle to do. and that s what i do. so i can t talk about a dire
..he had a range of different kinds of line, but he had a great facility to allow the pen marks to be themselves. in other words, it was polished in his own terms, but it wasn t it didn t affect to have a kind of gloss finish. you think about the characterisation that ronald searle comes up with in those drawings, those kind of quite spindly characters. they re sort of etiolated figures. is there a link, do you think, in those characters, between those characters and some of the characters that you create in yourfilm? i think the important thing about searle being an inspiration, or, if you like, an influence on me, it s not so much about specific characters. it s about a way of looking at the world. i mean, if you look at my characters in my films, and indeed plays. ..it s never i never allow it to be described as naturalism, it s realism, it gets to the essence of what s real. i mean, you have to believe in it being absolutely real