Attending the Berlin Film Festival for a new movie Rosebush Pruningactor Callum Turner was asked by a reporter at the film’s press conference about online speculation linking him to the role of James Bond.
Turner declined to comment, and was assisted by co-star Tracy Letts who joked: “I’m playing James Bond.”
In a critical moment, Pulitzer-winning actor and playwright Letts was asked by a reporter how the political “situation” in the US affects acting as an actor, noting that many actors and jury members refused to discuss the political situation at the festival.
Letts said it was “difficult” to discuss the “situation” in the US and avoided addressing it directly but said the film highlighted how “great disparities in wealth breed immorality, and in fact, perhaps breed fascism”.
“This movie speaks for itself,” noted Letts. “This film has its own good statement to make, because of a good film and good actors and a good director. I can’t speak for other artists, I don’t feel free to take the work that they did. Obviously, it’s an uncomfortable thing to talk about because of our political situation, but one of the things that this movie finds, this is very different, I also think about the worst behavior, the appearance of wealth and bad behavior. In fact, maybe it creates feminism, so that’s one of the things that this film reaches, I don’t think that there is a way to work as an artist. We are all artists who come together to work on something together, and politics, happening in each person’s world does not really affect each of us as we come together to tell a story.
Pamela Anderson was once asked what advice she would give to young women: “Be yourself and follow your dreams, and it’s never too late.
A drama starring Karim Aïnouz Rosebush Pruning world premieres in competition at the Berlinale.
They are sitting in a nice house under the Catalan sun, in the movie Jamie Bell, Calum Turner, Riley Keough and Lukas Gage play the American children Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert. Together, they embrace each other and their inherited wealth, escape the demands of their blind father (Tracy Letts), and seek love and validation from each other and from their latest designer clothes.
When Jack (Bell), the older brother and family man, announces that he is moving in with his girlfriend, played by Elle Fanning, blood ties are severed and Ed begins to uncover the truth about his mother’s death. Generational lies begin to emerge, and the fabric of this family begins to slowly unravel. Elena Anaya and Pamela Anderson also star in the show.
The film is a co-production between Mubi, The Match Factory, Kavac Film, Fremantle’s The Apartment, Sur Film, Crybaby and Gold Rush Pictures.
Firebrand director Aïnouz directs from a script written by Yorgos Lanthimos’ longtime collaborator Efthimis Filippou (Lobster), inspired by Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 drama Pocket Punches.
