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<\/p>\n\n\tOlivia Colman became something of a boating expert and Peter Dinklage can now weave a mean basket \u2014 all thanks to Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer\u2019s film Wicker, based on Ursula Wills\u2019 short story.<\/p>\n
\n\tAhead of the film\u2019s Sundance premiere, directors and cast sat down with Deadline at our Sundance Studio.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe movie is about a fisherwoman in a small village,\u201d Huston Fischer explained. \u201cShe stinks, she\u2019s got a unibrow, everybody makes fun of her. One day she\u2019s had enough, she goes to the local basket maker to commission a husband made out of wicker.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s intrinsically a very visual premise,\u201d Wilson added. \u201cAnd it just felt like it would be an amazing translation to screen. So that was a huge draw. And sort of the challenge of, \u2018What would a wicker man look like?\u2019 It was really exciting to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tColman, who is also a producer, plays said fisherwoman. She said, \u201cI don\u2019t think she knew that she was creating anything other than wanting to retaliate against being ridiculed by the village, particularly the taylor\u2019s wife.\u201d Colman then pointed to Elizabeth Debicki on the panel, since Debicki plays that role. \u201cThey had known each other all their lives,\u201d Colman went on. \u201cAnd there was some last-straw moment where the Fisherwoman goes, \u2018Please, can I have a husband?\u2019 She just thought she wanted to shake things up and piss everyone off. And then accidentally, they fell in love, and then the village unravels, because we had a better relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tOlivia Colman in \u2018Wicker\u2019 by Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSundance Institute\/ Lol Crawley.<\/p>\n
\n\tAsked why she felt drawn to the role, and what she had wanted to say about relationships and marriage, Colman joked, \u201cI genuinely didn\u2019t. I don\u2019t think of anything very deeply. I didn\u2019t think any of that.\u201d She added, \u201cI just really loved the script. I think it\u2019s in my top three favorite scripts I\u2019ve ever read, and I just wanted to play her, and that\u2019s all there is to it. I thought this would be a beautiful film. I wanted to be in it, and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tColman did have to attempt to paddle a boat \u2014 a \u201ctippy\u201d round craft called a coracle \u2014 for the role. \u201cI loved it,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember [cinematographer] Lol [Crawley] giving me directions on how to do it, and he\u2019d never sat in a coracle in a current, so that went down like a cup of cold sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMeanwhile Dinklage, as the basket weaver, was demonstrating his craft. \u201cI got really into weaving wicker. On set. We had a really great tutor. It was wonderful, and it\u2019s part of being an actor is just going and doing strange things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHis character, he added, is \u201clovely. He\u2019s much like the fisherwoman. He\u2019s just completely his own character. He doesn\u2019t abide by the rules of the town folks. He\u2019s an eccentric, flamboyant inventor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nI was incredibly excited about playing this character, but he has a purity that scared me. I often gravitate towards conflicted characters, characters where there\u2019s a darkness, or an internal struggle, or some kind of weird dichotomy of friction.<\/p>\n
Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\tSkarsg\u00e5rd said he initially found the role of the wicker husband a challenging concept.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI was a little intimidated reading the script,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew I wanted to do it, and I was incredibly excited about playing this character, but he has a purity that scared me. I often gravitate towards conflicted characters, characters where there\u2019s a darkness, or an internal struggle, or some kind of weird dichotomy of friction. And there\u2019s a lot of friction in the movie, but none of it comes from the wicker husband. He is just pure \u2014 not naive \u2014 he\u2019s just there. He loves his wife, and it\u2019s just happy and sweet. So that scared me a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIt felt like a departure from his previous roles, he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really know how to approach it. I\u2019m so used to \u2014 even if it\u2019s a character who is ostensibly a protagonist \u2014 I often gravitate towards finding some darkness or friction or something that I lean into that because I feel like that\u2019s very playable. I felt a bit unmoored by this, because then I was like, oh, not only is is the character void of that internal friction,
I also know that I have to kind of exaggerate everything, so I can\u2019t be completely real and natural in the scenes, because, I was wearing a full mask every day, a full body suit actually glued to my face and body. And the way you move your face, you have to exaggerate it a bit. So that scared me also, playing these beautifully written scenes, intimate, quiet scenes with Olivia, where I can read every little detail on your face, or, then I have to go, like, [exaggerates expressions] \u2018Ohhhh, realllllyy.\u2019 And that made me little insecure, because I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m sh-t. This is terrible.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe Deadline Studio at\u00a0Sundance\u00a0is presented by Casamigos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Colman became something of a boating expert and Peter Dinklage can now weave a mean basket \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[149160,66771,434,18,149161,134910,117,19,17,19707,35876,16998,16999],"class_list":{"0":"post-302465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alex-huston-fischer","9":"tag-alexander-skarsgard","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-eleanor-wilson","13":"tag-elizabeth-debicki","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-olivia-colman","18":"tag-peter-dinklage","19":"tag-sundance","20":"tag-sundance-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115953995837263081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}