BFI Fellow Olivia Colman discusses the importance of UK independent film with BFI Ambassador Joanna Scanlan
The Oscar-winning actor talks about her break-out feature film role in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, which was part financed with National Lottery Good Cause funding.
In part of a series of exclusive interviews, BFI Ambassador Joanna Scanlan talks to BFI Fellow and Oscar-winning actor Olivia Colman about her break-out feature film role in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, which was part financed with National Lottery Good Cause funding. They also discuss Olivia’s award-winning performance as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, which was supported by National Lottery Good Cause funding during the film’s 20 year development process, and her upcoming feature Elsinore, which is opening the BFI London Film Festival on 7 October. Olivia and Joanna also talk about how vital the cinema experience is in bringing people together.
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