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Mike Leigh Interview About ‘Hard Truths,’ Filmmaking, Streaming

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January 8, 2025
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Mike Leigh, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the greatest English filmmakers of all time. He has written, in his own way, and directed, films for screens both big and small, which have been massively acclaimed and influential, for more than a half-century. Among them: 1976’s Nuts in May, 1977’s Abigail’s Party, 1980’s Grown-Ups, 1983’s Meantime, 1993’s Naked, 1996’s Secrets & Lies, 2004’s Vera Drake, 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky and, most recently, 2024’s Hard Truths.

Leigh’s films have won the top prizes of both the Cannes and Venice film festivals, something no other Brit has ever been able to claim. He personally was awarded an OBE in 1993, BAFTA’s Michael Balcon lifetime achievement award in 1996 and a BAFTA fellowship in 2014. And he has been nominated for seven Oscars.

The British Film Institute has called Leigh “the great humanist of British cinema.” Roger Ebert once said of him, “In looking at ‘everyday lives’ and finding strangeness, contradictions, secrecy and compulsion in them, he invented the genre now also occupied by Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson and Todd Solondz.” The New York Review of Books argued, “Leigh’s London is as distinctive as Fellini’s Rome or Ozu’s Tokyo.” The Guardian has described him as “Britain’s most admired director, at least among many critics and a smallish, though very reverential, fan club.” And The Observer has called him “a complete maverick” whose “films constitute the most distinctive body of work of any contemporary British film-maker” … “a man who has transformed the way we see — and hear — everyday life” with his “genius for dramatizing ordinary people.”

Indeed, Leigh’s work has inspired and influenced everyone from Sam Mendes, the Tony- and Oscar-winning director, to Ricky Gervais, who has said it influenced his TV show The Office. As Mendes once put it, Leigh has “pushed three generations of actors to give the performances of their lives,” helping to introduce the world to the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis, Jane Horrocks, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, James Corden and Andy Serkis, while establishing a stock company, of sorts, that could hold its own against any, with the likes of Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

Over the course of an interview at the Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica, during what, for him, was a rare and emotionally-conflicting trip to the Hollywood region, the 81-year-old reflected on the roots and specifics of his famously mysterious method of shaping stories and performances; why he was forced to spend 17 years between his first and second theatrical features working in television, and the pros and cons of that diversion; why he was very disturbed when Hard Truths was rejected by the Cannes, Venice and Telluride film festivals, and what it has meant to him to see the film, and especially Jean-Baptiste’s performance in it, widely lauded on the awards circuit; plus more.



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