5 Minutes With: Paul Tonkinson

Film3Sixty met up with funny man Paul Tonkinson to discuss his career, what’s changed in the industry and his involvement in the soon to be released Comedy Store: Raw and Uncut. When was your first professional gig? My first professional gig would have been in Manchester in about 1989 at the student union, where I [...]

5 Minutes With: Ben Whishaw

From Skyfall to Cloud Atlas, Ben Whishaw is on an almighty streak… You play the young composer Robert Frobisher in your main storyline. Did you have to study music?  Ben Whishaw: Tom [Tykwer] phoned me three months before we were going to shoot and said, “You need to have piano lessons.” So he sent me the score and [...]

5 Minutes With: Daniel Day-Lewis

The British-Irish actor discusses the Method, make-up and not working in construction. You strike a very convincing portrait of Abraham Lincoln. How did you go about looking the part? Daniel Day-Lewis: By the time they’d got it down to a fine art it was probably an hour-and-a-half in the make-up chair every morning. Theydid wonderful work. The trouble with any work [...]

5 Minutes With: Hugh Jackman

Is this your first movie musical? Yes. We filmed a production of Oklahoma that I did, but that was in a soundstage replicating the theatre stage, if that makes sense. Mind you, I think this is very different from many, in the fact that everything’s live. I don’t think that’s ever been done before in [...]

5 Minutes With: Anne Hathaway

Film3Sixty sat down with Anne Hathaway to talk about her role in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. Her peformance is already being touted for potential Oscars® come awards season. Your mother played Fantine on stage. Your history with the character goes back a long way, doesn’t it? Anne Hathaway: A very long way. I was aided having seen my [...]

5 Minutes With: Michael Gambon

Film3Sixty sat down with Michael Gambon to talk about playing Cedric, a retired opera director, in Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet. How would you describe Cedric? Michael Gambon: Well he’s very gay, isn’t he? He wears flashy clothes; kaftan, slippers, scarf. No one seems to like him very much. He’s very bossy, always ordering people around. [...]

5 Minutes With: Paul Thomas Anderson

Film3Sixty sat down with Paul Thomas Anderson to talk about his first film since critical hit There Will Be Blood, the Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman-starring The Master. What is the influence of Scientology on the story? Paul Thomas Anderson: I think if you know a lot about the early days of dianetics and scientology you will see a [...]

5 Minutes With: Daniel Craig

With Skyfall set to be released on Friday (26 October), Daniel Craig sat down with Film3Sixty to talk about his latest outing as the suave secret agent. It’s the third time out for you now. Have you bedded in with the character? Daniel Craig: The truth of it is I feel like we’re just discovering stuff. [...]

5 Minutes With: Javier Bardem

Film3Sixty sat down with Spanish actor Javier Bardem to talk about playing Raoul Silver in the new James Bond film, Skyfall. What made you want to do a Bond film? Javier Bardem: It came to me through Daniel. We met and he came to me and said, “Would you be interested in doing a Bond movie?” [...]

5 MINUTES WITH: FERNANDO MEIRELLES

The acclaimed director of City Of God and The Constant Gardener discusses his experiences shooting the globe-spanning narrative for 360, a modern-day updating of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde by screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Damned United). Hopping between Bratislava, Vienna, Paris, London, Denver and Rio de Janeiro, the film features intersecting characters coping with [...]