I watched a lot of movies with my dad when I was really young and he would show us all the sort of film history, even though at the time we were so tiny we didn't think it would, you know… I remember us saying: "Oh can't we watch something current!" , but actually we watched things like Midnight Express, and you know, movies with real proper journeys in them and proper character studies.
And I think that was the gift from my dad really was just teaching me the history of cinema, and how much for me I responded to deep character journeys really.
And so yeah, I'm very grateful to him for that because I don't know if I would have done it on my own.
I don't think many people would say this but Space Odyssey I watched when I was really young I mean the opening is so wild, and the final five minutes of that movie is just… for me just, I don't know, connects with something so deeply profound and I still sometimes go revisit it and just watch it on my own at home, but it just weirdly provokes such an emotional reaction somehow, because I think it's getting in touch with something very sort of abstract but hard to… something oddly spiritual somehow.
You know, when I was really little I used to watch Gena Rowlands a lot.
She's my absolute hero.
All her performances, Opening Night and Woman Under the Influence, for me I guess I was most inspired by her really fierce, brave, messy women that she portrayed on screen that I think was so rare at the time and Cassavetes was just allowing her, obviously loving her so much as person, but allowing her to just kind of really tear into it, and she was most inspiring to me.
So, all her characters were… and Lauren Bacall as well, I found her intensity really inspiring, so I would say probably those two.
I have to say cinema.
I missed it so much in Covid.
