With “The Favourite,” Tony McNamara wanted to “re-engineer the period movie.” The Australian-born writer was hired by director Yorgos Lanthimos to do a rewrite on Deborah Davis‘s original script about the rivalry between two cousins (Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz) for the affections of a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) during the 18th century. Watch our exclusive video interview with McNamara above.
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Hailing from the land down under, McNamara didn’t have “a strong tradition” of period films about English royalty to draw upon, which made him a perfect match for the Greek-born Lanthimos. “We just wanted it to be about people in a really contemporary way,” he explains, “not in the sense we were looking back at something.” Instead, they wanted “these three women and the dilemmas they got up...
See Best Actress Oscar odds: Olivia Colman inches past Glenn Close — will she take down Lady Gaga next?
Hailing from the land down under, McNamara didn’t have “a strong tradition” of period films about English royalty to draw upon, which made him a perfect match for the Greek-born Lanthimos. “We just wanted it to be about people in a really contemporary way,” he explains, “not in the sense we were looking back at something.” Instead, they wanted “these three women and the dilemmas they got up...
- 11/14/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
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