The Picture Journal

Jenn Murray

What is a fear that you have willingly faced? I am not sure I would call this a real fear, but when I was a teenager I always thought having very short hair would be awful. Then shooting my first film I was required to bleach it every week. My hair disintegrated and after filming I had to cut it all off to a very short pixie crop hairstyle. This is a look I had feared but then when I had it, I liked it. I would never have voluntarily cut it all off and because I had no choice,…

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Jim Sturgess

If you could somehow give the 12 year old version of yourself a book to read, a film to watch, and an album to listen to – presumably to make yourself cooler or more knowledgeable at an earlier age – what would you gift? That’s a hard question as I feel that whatever you are reading, listening to, or discovering at the time is the right thing for you at that moment. The discovery of these things as you go through life are what make you who you are… so I’d be nervous to interfere with that. I didn’t really…

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Tom Riley

If you could pick one piece of technology or art to have come out 10 years earlier in your life or 10 years later, what would you pick? The iPhone. And a decade later. I just would have liked ten more years to actually take in the world around me. Eggplant emoji, winky face. What is the most interesting conversation you’ve had with someone whom you never talked to again? I’m not sure about the most interesting, but the conversation that stayed with me the most was when I was shooting a neurosurgery show called Monroe a few years ago.…

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Inside Look: Chanya Button

We spoke to director Chanya Button about Burn Burn Burn, her first feature length film. Much of Burn Burn Burn is comprised of a road trip – if you could pick three people to share the road with who you do not know, who would you pick? My next film is about Virginia Woolf and her relationship with the poet Vita Sackville-West. They had an intense friendship, they creatively inspired each other, and they had a passionate romance for a time. I’d like to take a road trip with them and bear witness to the fireworks! They sounded like a…

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Emily Berrington

What is something that is socially accepted or tolerated that you wish wasn’t? Passive aggressive tutting. I went to New York recently and it doesn’t exist there. People just tell you if you’re annoying them. If you could only invest all of your personal aesthetic into one room in your flat which room would you pick? How would you make it your own? My flat is open plan, which makes this easier – the main room where I cook, eat, work, exercise, watch tv, nap, entertain, watch the world go by etc. I’d keep a big open space in the…

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Ophelia Lovibond

Would you rather give up your music or your film library? Oh God, what a horrendous dilemma! I reckon I’d give up my film library because I can remember more vividly and conjure more easily the stories I’ve seen than the music I’ve heard. Plus you can’t dance to The Deer Hunter the way you can to Funkadelic. What do you find incredibly boring despite knowing that it’s worthwhile? Flossing. What is a trait or surface-level characteristic that you take as an indicator of some part of a person’s character? Whether or not they like dogs. (A wide berth if…

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Finlay MacMillan

What capability would you rather have, a photographic memory or the ability to impersonate anyone without practice? Photographic memory sounds cool. But only if when I blink (to take the photograph) I can hear a small internal shutter noise sound effect. You’ll soon be appearing in the psychological thriller The Dark Mile, concerning two holidaying women seeking R&R but finding anything but… Inverting the central premise, have you ever been in a situation that you utterly dreaded only for it to turn out to be just the opposite? I was home alone and absolutely shaking with terror once. It was…

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