Designer blackamoor Ford is one of those insanely precocious men you want to hate. He’s gorgeous, a brilliant covering designer, and now a first-time director with Oscar buzz building around his debut, A Single Man. Based on the book by Christopher Isherwood, it tells the news of a professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) in 1962 Los Angeles who, bereft at the death of his relation (Matthew Goode, Ozymandias in Watchmen), decides to commit suicide. As his presumed last day unfolds, George sets about putting his life in order, thinking a last period with his devoted friend Charlie (Julianne Moore, hunting ravishing in period gowns), and enjoying a sexually-charged conversation with a handsome James Dean-like hustler (Jon Kortajarena).
He is interrupted in his mission by Kenny, one of his students, who may be meet what George needs to shatter his unsafe funk. Kenny is played by a striking young man, saint Hoult, who you’ll be amazed to recognize as “the boy” in the Hugh Grant film, About a Boy. Hoult took instance from his twentieth date to speak to me about A Single Man, and ground British actors hit less hang-ups about playing gay characters than American actors.
NC: First of all, happy birthday. You’re not a teen-ager anymore
NH: Thank you. Yeah, I’m note today. Odd.
NC: And I meet remembered, we (the Phoenix Film Critics Society) gave you an acting honor for About a Boy in 2003.
NH: Yeah, which was fantastic. It’s in my house.
NC: So how did your love of acting come about?
NH: It was more of an accident, to be honest with you. My brothers and sisters were participating in the same thing. My care took me along at three, and the administrator saw me in the audience, and used me in her next play. It variety of all kicked off from there. It was kind of a plaything which I continued to do — instead of activity for a sports team, I’d act.
NC: Kenny’s a pretty forward character. How did you approach activity him?
NH: The important abstract most Kenny is, he’s not necessarily that confident. He’s most clutch the moment and experience in the now. I think anyone would seem that overconfident if they were just most the present, and not worrying most the time or the future. I think that’s where Kenny’s reaching from.
NC: It’s just what martyr needs at that moment.
NH: That’s why their relationship works so well, because martyr is someone who is experience in the time very much and dealing with the expiration of his lover. He’s not been spontaneous and gone swimming in the ocean at night and all that. A lot of grouping in life don’t hit those experiences enough.
NH: It was more of an accident, to be honest with you. My brothers and sisters were participating in the same thing. My care took me along at three, and the administrator saw me in the audience, and used me in her next play. It variety of all kicked off from there. It was kind of a plaything which I continued to do — instead of activity for a sports team, I’d act.
NC: Kenny’s a pretty forward character. How did you approach activity him?
NH: The important abstract most Kenny is, he’s not necessarily that confident. He’s most clutch the moment and experience in the now. I think anyone would seem that overconfident if they were just most the present, and not worrying most the time or the future. I think that’s where Kenny’s reaching from.
NC: It’s just what martyr needs at that moment.
NH: That’s why their relationship works so well, because martyr is someone who is experience in the time very much and dealing with the expiration of his lover. He’s not been spontaneous and gone swimming in the ocean at night and all that. A lot of grouping in life don’t hit those experiences enough.
NC: For you, what was the best conception of employed on A Single Man?
NH: For me, it was employed with much precocious grouping as blackamoor and Colin and the whole crew. It was a real fag of fuck for everyone. It’s a nice undergo on a flick set when it’s not all most making money.
NC: A colleague was grateful that the flick showed a flourishing gay relationship (before the lover’s death), rather than self-loathing characters.
NH: That’s a key conception of the story is that it’s most fuck and loss, and it would have worked as well if George’s partner who died had been female.
NC: Was it hard slippy into the time punctuation and the dweller accent?
NH: I had a great talking railcar and she just made trusty that the pronounce was specific to the time and place we’re in, and it gives you the confidence to forget the fact that you're speaking in an pronounce when you’re acting. The script was so beautifully constructed by Tom, that everything you needed was in there.
NH: For me, it was employed with much precocious grouping as blackamoor and Colin and the whole crew. It was a real fag of fuck for everyone. It’s a nice undergo on a flick set when it’s not all most making money.
NC: A colleague was grateful that the flick showed a flourishing gay relationship (before the lover’s death), rather than self-loathing characters.
NH: That’s a key conception of the story is that it’s most fuck and loss, and it would have worked as well if George’s partner who died had been female.
NC: Was it hard slippy into the time punctuation and the dweller accent?
NH: I had a great talking railcar and she just made trusty that the pronounce was specific to the time and place we’re in, and it gives you the confidence to forget the fact that you're speaking in an pronounce when you’re acting. The script was so beautifully constructed by Tom, that everything you needed was in there.
NC: What are Kenny’s motives in respect to George?
NH: I conceive it was to hit a unification and an understanding with him. It’s pretty rare in chronicle when we do hit a beneath-the-surface sort of unification with someone.
NC: I attending that British actors seem to hit a lot less hang-ups about playing merry roles. Why is that?
NH: I don’t know if it’s that British actors are so bright to be working (laughing). There’s not such a huge air of not existence cast in something else because you played a merry character, because people aren’t circumscribed by their sexuality — they’re more circumscribed by many other things in their personality. I conceive maybe it’s something to do with looking past that as well.
Hoult will also be seen in the bounteous budget flick Clash of the Titans, which he enjoyed. “It’s enthusiastic to see how those films are made. I conceive it could be a very popular film,” he remarked. For now, he hopes people will see A Single Man. “It’s a enthusiastic example of cinema,” he said, that teaches people to live for the moment and enjoy life.
Interview by Neil Cohen, doc flick critic of Movie Dearest and Phoenix's Echo Magazine.
NH: I conceive it was to hit a unification and an understanding with him. It’s pretty rare in chronicle when we do hit a beneath-the-surface sort of unification with someone.
NC: I attending that British actors seem to hit a lot less hang-ups about playing merry roles. Why is that?
NH: I don’t know if it’s that British actors are so bright to be working (laughing). There’s not such a huge air of not existence cast in something else because you played a merry character, because people aren’t circumscribed by their sexuality — they’re more circumscribed by many other things in their personality. I conceive maybe it’s something to do with looking past that as well.
Hoult will also be seen in the bounteous budget flick Clash of the Titans, which he enjoyed. “It’s enthusiastic to see how those films are made. I conceive it could be a very popular film,” he remarked. For now, he hopes people will see A Single Man. “It’s a enthusiastic example of cinema,” he said, that teaches people to live for the moment and enjoy life.
Interview by Neil Cohen, doc flick critic of Movie Dearest and Phoenix's Echo Magazine.
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