Olivia Coleman and Sam Mendes discuss how early pandemic loneliness inspired EmpireofLight and what the actress took away—literally—from set.
earned three Oscars and a flush of global attention,was, like the rest of the world, stuck. The pandemic lockdown led him to “reflect on things that I suppose I hadn’t thought about properly in years,” he says, and he began writing a script inspired by his mother before giving up halfway through. He’d hadin mind while writing, but it took the encouragement of his wife to actually hop on Zoom and meet her.
Was your mother's story in mind in that way from the very beginning, or were you thinking more broadly about that period in history and movie theaters and then kind of realized that your mother was integral to the story you wanted to tell?No, it came from wanting to tell the story. I mean, I'm an only child and I grew up alone with my mother, who was a single parent and brought me up while struggling with a mental illness.
The other part of the film was an external struggle really, which was the political struggles that I lived through formed my own political opinions really, in the early '80s, when I was a teenager, and the racial tensions of those years, and the thatchy years of high unemployment, and all of that stuff. And both of those things, were stories I wanted to tell I, and I just had to try and find a way to pull them together.
Olivia, did that early pandemic loneliness kind of hit you too? Was that resonant for you when this script came to you and Sam presented this story?No, I have a very unpopular... I loved being in lockdown. And I say that carefully, because I know that so many people had the most awful time, but I found it was a gift. We're lucky. I don't live with any baddies, so we just enjoyed having time together, time with my kids I wouldn't have got. So yeah, I'm afraid I loved it.
So Sam has said that he wrote this part with you in mind. Did he tell you that when he sent you this?
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