Milne's career, and his relationship with his son Christopher.
It's a very sweet story, but a story that doesn't shy away from the darker moments in A.A. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. Milne-a biopic with Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie. What are you working on now? I'm just finishing shooting a film about A.A. It’s lovely to have them, but it's a joy to make them last. I think it's worth savoring each of them. A different director, a different cast, a whole different concept. And when I go to watch the new episodes of this series, I will try to restrain myself from watching them all at once, and give myself some time to take in the bleakness and intelligence of what Charlie's trying to say about the world, or where the world could go. But I think with Black Mirror, it's a joy to have some space between each one.
THE BLACK MIRROR MASTURBATION SERIES
But particularly for Kenny.ĭo you have any advice for viewers who are preparing to dig into six brand-new Black Mirror episodes over the weekend? Particularly with Netflix, there are some series you just binge-watch. The curation that we do: what our lives are like, and the discrepancy between our online selves and who we actually are behind the screens. Yeah! It’s strange, isn't it? The world we live in, and the double lives we lead. It will be interesting to know how many people will watch "Shut Up and Dance" and cover up their webcams with Post-It Notes. The "fiction" that you're carrying is actually taking place in the real world. And that is a very surreal thing, when you're working. When we were shooting, there was a news story in the real world about something very similar. I’ve seen one or two of the other new Black Mirror episodes, and what's interesting about "Shut Up and Dance" is how close it is to the world we're living in right now. It's particularly unsettling at a time when major hacks have become such a recurring feature of the actual news cycle. We weren't given the chance to intellectualize it. The characters are thrown headlong into this torturous trial, and we actors shared that in common with the characters. Why them, and who are these people ? As actors, we didn't give ourselves time to come to any conclusions. The characters have no idea why they're being targeted. How much did you discuss about the true origins and motives of the hackers? What was sort of wonderful was that the hackers, for us, remained anonymous. The hackers who set the events of the episode into motion are still utterly anonymous when the episode ends the closest thing we get to an explanation is the trollface meme they send as they break their promise and release the video anyway. For me-considering each event as it came in the shooting order, as life or death-the stakes were always incredibly high. And that drives him, in spite of his terror, to carry out the tasks he needs to. How did such a disturbing twist inform your approach to the character? For Kenny, it's life or death, really. And then, at the end of the episode, we learn that Kenny was actually watching child pornography. "Shut Up and Dance" seems like it's about a boy driven to desperation because he doesn't want his friends and family to see a video of him masturbating to online porn-which would definitely be embarrassing, but maybe not so much that you'd rob a bank or beat a man to death to prevent anyone from seeing it. By the end of it, we were good friends, but in the beginning, we were… trying to figure each other out, I suppose. We shot quite quickly, over three weeks, and that speed meant that we didn't have any time to socialize. Their relationship has a slightly farcical quality, and they're uncomfortable in each other's presence-which was aided by the fact that Jerome and I had never worked together before. Which, in many ways, was quite helpful-because we were playing this unlikely couple, thrown together in this big old gray car.
How did you develop your rapport with Jerome Flynn? Jerome and I didn't meet until… I think until we were in the car together. James was let loose, and I'm so glad he was, because he's so good at it. And in his experience working on horror films like The Woman in Black and Eden Lake, James really learned the craft of sustaining incredible suspense over long periods of time, without it ever wavering. Gave us the space-between, , and I-to make it our story. And then-and I think, in a wonderful way-he let us get on with it. Did Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, who co-wrote "Shut Up and Dance," have any particular advice for approaching the role?Charlie was present in the read-throughs.
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