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Maxine Peake and co at the red carpet for Glasgow Film Festival where they’ve brought their latest production Woken
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04/03/2024
Woken is an Irish/Italian sci-fi featuring Maxine Peake and Ivanno Jeremiah. We spoke to them at the red carpet for Glasgow Film Fest 2024.
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Let's start by asking about, you know, it's the 20th anniversary of the Glasgow Film Festival
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and you'll see across the programme there's all kinds of different independent voices
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and people from all kind of different backgrounds or different accents and stuff like that.
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The fact that there are events like this that provide a route to cinema for, you know,
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independent films, is that really important do you feel?
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Yeah completely, I mean our film is an Irish-Italian co-production so we shot it in Ireland
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and then did the post-production in Italy and considering especially Italy having such a great
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kind of history with sci-fi and genre, like I mean it was amazing to be able to have that
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cooperation between the two countries and all of the people who worked in it, like I mean all the
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Irish crew were amazing, the Italian crew was amazing, kind of like, you know, just with a real
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passion for just genre and sci-fi and doing something different so it was really, yeah, it was great.
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And what about from an actor's perspective in terms of what you look for in a script,
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if it is something that's kind of interesting and, you know, something that really moves you,
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what did you see in Alan's script that really moved you?
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Well I think for me it was, I mean, you know, the script, you know, I mean it's a small cast but
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you've got, you know, a female protagonist, played by Ireland's very own Mary Knight,
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going on this sort of awakening but it's in such a, you know, using that sci-fi sort of genre to
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do it. I just think it was a brilliant script. I mean, I just read things and I think, 'Would I
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watch this?' Yeah, I'd watch it. I'd want to be in it, you know what I mean? So yeah.
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What about you, Ivana?
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Similar thing. I'd seen 'Cake', Alan's previous film that Maxine was in and I'd been a massive
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fan for a long time. So not only his very distinct cinematic style drew me to it immediately but also
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being around such peaceful, natural players was a great opportunity.
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Can I just ask a quite self-indulgent question and ask if there's any
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Glasgow or Scottish films or actors that you admire or like?
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Oh, Kate Dickey.
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Kate Dickey.
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Kate Dickey.
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Kate Dickey.
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She was on the list.
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Yeah, oh yeah, she, yeah. Yeah, but you've got, you know what I mean? You know what?
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I mean, there's such a great tradition of films here as well. I mean, kind of, you know, I mean,
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kind of, I mean, to be honest, 'Trainspotting' kicks it off so much for so many people and just
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the energy of that film.
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Yeah, and Lynne Ramsay. I mean, I don't know about the Scots, you know,
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I don't know about the...
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The culture.
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Yeah, you know, and more than... Yeah. But I just think what's so important about
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Film Festival is it's about the films getting shown but it's also showing there's an audience,
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there's other stuff than huge franchises. Cinema is much more than that and there's a lot of,
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you know, it's like when you're in a bookshop and you, you know, there's a whole other world
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out there that, you know, that exists, you know, that maybe it leans more to, you know,
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this is sci-fi but more art, how you saw, whatever. Just, you know, there's something
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for everybody.
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But yeah, 'Ratcatcher' is amazing.
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Yeah.
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And we're kind of like friends as well.
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I think it's the best part.
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