The Picture Journal

Festival Diary: Arnold Oceng

We spoke to Arnold Oceng at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) about A United Kingdom, in which he appears alongside David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. What aspects of A United Kingdom do you think highlight contemporary society’s growth with respect to race since the time at which it is set as well as its invariance? The main aspect highlighted which shows growth in contemporary society in my view is that we as people are more diverse and multi-cultural, and this is mirrored and shown by the increase of people with mixed heritage and ethnicities. Seretse and Ruth embody true love and personify…

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Festival Diary: Taron Egerton

We spoke to Taron Egerton at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) about Sing, in which he appears alongside Scarlett Johansson, Matthew McConaughey & Reese Witherspoon. Sing features a failing theatre attempting to portray ‘real talent from real life’, what is a moment from real life that you felt made for a stronger performance? I forgot the words to a song on stage once. Still makes me shiver. Valuable lesson in being prepared! What do you think is the best (or your favourite) animated or voiced performance of all time? Toy Story had such a strong impression on me as a child.…

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Festival Diary: Lyndsey Marshal

We spoke to Lyndsey Marshal at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) about Trespass Against Us, in which she appears alongside Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. From what is available to research suggests, Trespass Against Us portrays the decline of a small-time crime family. Why do you think that the symbiosis of crime and family are so often so effective at commenting on one another in film? I think a family set up can provide you with a claustrophobic, pressure-cooker environment. You can see how an act of crime reverberates within a group. And how that effects individuals members and depending…

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Rose Leslie

What is something you wish took less time? I wish blow drying your own hair took less time. What subject or idea has your perspective shifted or expanded the most from because of a film? It doesn’t have to be one you worked on. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. My perspective on our universe and planet has shifted dramatically, I find it utterly compelling and fascinating. From a fan perspective, what film, television show, or album did you anticipate the most or for the longest? Bear’s Den’s newest album, Red Earth & Pouring Rain – I was longing for it to…

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Amara Karan

What’s an unwritten rule of acting? Make it easy for everyone including yourself. In terms of genre, do you generally prefer a horror film or a disaster film? Both. I need variety, both in terms of what I watch and what I perform. If I had to chose right now, it would be a subsection of horror – the psychological thriller genre. Like The Silence of the Lambs. I haven’t done one of those for a while. What was the last or most recent belief that you held for a time but no longer do? I used to believe that we…

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Eleanor Tomlinson

If you have a 25th hour to every day where you wouldn’t be tired to dedicate to one activity, what would you spend the time on? My family are the most important thing to me so if there was a 25th hour to every day, I would spend it with them. Which film or television character did you relate the most to growing up? I don’t know if I particularly related to a character growing up however I was captivated by Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind and watching her certainly influenced my longing to become an…

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Amy Manson

Your next project Edie is about a kind of journey or pilgrimage up a mountain, what was the most crucial Point A to Point B of your life? The transition from a small town in Scotland to the UK capital when I was 17 for a dream that only I believed in. My time at drama school was a period of self-discovery but I think it had an adverse effect and stripped me of a sense of self. It was one of the loneliest periods of my life, trying to conquer the city, study and hold down four part-time jobs…

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