Dom Hemingway At The Toronto International Film Festival
National Post – 9th September, 2013
ABOVE: Cast and crew of the film Dom Hemingway.
From left: Director Richard Shepard, actors Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke and Madalina Ghenea.
Picture – Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press
Five things we learned at the press conference for Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Law and Richard E. Grant.
By Nathalie Atkinson
1. Like Dickie, Richard E. Grant has at least one friend like Dom who is awful.
“The nature of friendship is such that even when they are intolerable, you love them,” he said by way of example about someone he has known for 25 years (we bet his friends are counting backwards …).
2. The opening scene was also the first one they shot.
“The first scene, that sort of took my breath away the most,” Law said. “I think that one of my requests to Richard was to do that scene first. It was just sort of to set the bar.”
3. They don’t hand out Oscars for comedy roles often, but maybe they should.
“I feel like it is one of the few, certainly not the first, comedies that I have ever done,” Law said. “You have to be more real in comedy than in drama or tragedy. The comedy comes out of the ridiculousness and awkwardness. It was a challenge because I had to really nurture and enjoy the rhythm of the script that Richard wrote.”
4. Less (time) is more.
“I wanted to shoot this movie quickly because I wanted the energy of Dom,” Shepard said. “We might have had more complex shots … but I think it wouldn’t have been the same scene.”
5. Bonus: Some stars don’t mind aging (i.e. the men)
A reporter tactfully asked Jude Law how it felt to be in the stage of his career playing a man of a certain age (old enough to have not only an adult daughter but a grandchild). Law, just as tactfully, said that he relished it, particularly when it’s Emilia Clarke playing his first daughter. “Parts can get more and more interesting and challenging.”
Dom Hemingway stars Richard E. Grant, Jude Law, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke, and Madalina Ghenea. Directed by Richard Shepard.
Below is the TIFF Press Conference for Dom Hemingway. Please note that it’s a 45 minute video so the file size is fairly large at just under 150 MB.
Below is the Q&A session following the World Premiere of Dom Hemingway at TIFF. Again its a fairly large file at around 82 MB.
…And Richard signing autographs at the event.
