Interview: Kenneth Branagh talks Sleuth
Interview: Kenneth Branagh talks Sleuth
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Kenneth Branagh is a man who needs very little introduction, and that's probably because he could soliloquise his own if he needed to. A renowned Shakespearian performer who has brought to screen no fewer than five adaptations of Bard plays like Henry V, Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost, he's also just as familiar to younger audiences through roles as Gilderoy Lockheart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and as Dr. Arliss Loveless in 1999's rather infamous Wild Wild West. With three directorial projects arriving in UK cinemas this year, Rotten Tomatoes sat down with Branagh to discuss Sleuth, a reimagining of the classic play of the same name and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine with a script by Harold Pinter.
I don't know whether it's just the UK release schedule, but you seem to have been busy - you have three films coming out within the space of a few months...
Kenneth Branagh: That's right; As You Like It came out in September, and then here in the UK Sleuth is 23rd November and The Magic Flute is the 30th November. But they were shot over the previous three years! It's a bit like buses; you wait for one and then three come along at the same time. You're so grateful that the films get made, but I've never been in this situation before so it'll be interesting to see how it may affect the business in terms of how many people go and see them by perhaps their proximity. Maybe that'll be a positive thing.
I should imagine you've felt it most keenly on the promotional trail these last few months.
KB: Absolutely, moreso than I've been for a long time. As you'll know as well as I, it's a brutally competitive market out there, particularly since all three films probably fall into the category of specialist film given the sort of divide that seems to be the case in the movie market these days. So you do have to - and thank you for being interested to talk about it - go out and bang the drum and that's a very honourable tradition. It's about sharing your enthusiasm and passion for the films and hopefully showing to people that in this great plethora of choice we now have that these might be ones that they could enjoy.
I don't know whether it's just the UK release schedule, but you seem to have been busy - you have three films coming out within the space of a few months...
Kenneth Branagh: That's right; As You Like It came out in September, and then here in the UK Sleuth is 23rd November and The Magic Flute is the 30th November. But they were shot over the previous three years! It's a bit like buses; you wait for one and then three come along at the same time. You're so grateful that the films get made, but I've never been in this situation before so it'll be interesting to see how it may affect the business in terms of how many people go and see them by perhaps their proximity. Maybe that'll be a positive thing.
I should imagine you've felt it most keenly on the promotional trail these last few months.
KB: Absolutely, moreso than I've been for a long time. As you'll know as well as I, it's a brutally competitive market out there, particularly since all three films probably fall into the category of specialist film given the sort of divide that seems to be the case in the movie market these days. So you do have to - and thank you for being interested to talk about it - go out and bang the drum and that's a very honourable tradition. It's about sharing your enthusiasm and passion for the films and hopefully showing to people that in this great plethora of choice we now have that these might be ones that they could enjoy.
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