Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 394 November 21, 2018

There is maybe more emotion
to hold onto. I just think it’s a
really different, unique film. I
think it’s funny, and also dark,
and a little violent, and sexy,
and weird. It’s just something
that people aren’t used to
seeing, I hope.
Did you walk away from this
experience with anything
that you’re going to hold
onto for life?
Yeah, the whole experience.
I’m sure many things. Every
time you make something,
especially when you’re working
with someone for a long period
of time, you enter this little
bubble, this little world with
these people, and it feels like a
really special one.
You are all over the place.
Did you ever expect that
your career was going to
blow up like this?
I didn’t really have any preconceptions
of what would
happen. I felt spoiled. My first
job was unbelievable, and
I would jump to work with
someone like that in any size
part, in anything. So I felt lucky
for that to have happened.
Going forward I just wanted
to try and find filmmakers who
knew what they wanted to
make and had a really clear
vision of what they wanted
to make, and that interested
and excited me, like Yorgos.
In the beginning you were
just building your career, and
I wanted to be in interesting
projects. If there was a huge
job that really came around, I
would take it, but with these
four projects, really exciting
projects don’t come around
often. I just wanted to be a part
of those kinds of things.
Was Emma fun to work with?
Oh yeah, so fun. She’s not only
ridiculously talented but such
a down-to-earth, generous,
funny person.
Your rise to fame has been
so quick. How do you react
when people come up to
you—is it weird to you, or are
you assimilating?
It doesn’t happen that often.
It’s not something I really think
about. I don’t feel any different
as a person. I don’t feel like
any sizable shift. The thing that
feels different is people saying,
“How do you feel?” It’s what
people kind of project onto it;
that’s the thing that changed
rather than me changing, I feel.
What do you look forward
to in the future, because
you’re working with so many
different directors now. Are
you getting the directing bug
in you at all?
Not at the moment. It’s really
interesting seeing how people
work differently. Maybe some
time down the line I’d like to
try it, but at the moment my
acting is the most important.
You’ve done two films
regarding royalty, this one
and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
How do you feel about the
subject?
People are just fascinated
by it, I guess. It’s kind of an
unreachable, mysterious family
and life. So there were so many
stories in it that are real and
also fictitious. People sort of
have an inexhaustible interest
in the royal family. But “The
Favourite” and “Mary Queen
of Scots” could not be more
further apart, as far as stories
about the royal family and the
way they are told. I didn’t feel
like I was just doing the same
thing again.