“There’s a lot of ‘I love you (expletive) ‘I love you. I’m going to kiss your face when I see you,” Colman says.
Both have been good friends since they met on a night spent, appropriately, with cards. “Is that how we met?” Colman says, jogging his memory. In an American accent, Buckley, who is Irish, says, “What a good angle.”
Each one attended a performance of Letters Live in Britain, where actors dramatically read historical and literary correspondence. Buckley read a love letter from Maud Gonne to WB Yeats. The night continued with karaoke until 6 in the morning. The songs included Someone Like You of Adele and Back to Black de Amy Winehouse.
“Which maybe summed up the night,” Buckley says. “Someone Like You It’s a love song, right? Oh no, it’s a breakup song. We were falling in love. Back to Black “is about addiction.”
Buckley pauses for effect, then adds, “I was addicted to you.” Colman applauds.
the movie
In Wicked Little Lettersby Thea Sharrock, which opens in US theaters on Friday from Sony Pictures Classics, Colman and Buckley play very different neighbors in the England Edith (Colman) is a conservative, church-going woman with a domineering father (Timothy Spall) who lives next door to Rose (Buckley), a single mother who swears a lot. When the people of the village begin to receive anonymous letters full of insults, suspicion turns to Rose.
It is based on the true story of the Littlehampton Letters, which at the time became a national scandal. Wicked Little Letters It is something rare: a slightly obscene film.
“We have this idea that Britain and the women who lived in the 1930s only made healthy bread and went to church,” says Buckley. “But the truth is, they were (expletive) dirty. They were just like all of us.”
The film, which Colman produced with her husband, Ed Sinclair, takes place as the suffragettes take up their fight. And although Edith and Rose become sworn enemies, they are united by their mutual experience of male oppression.
“It’s certainly recognizing the journey that women have had,” Colman says. “At that time it was better than it had been before, and it shows how far we’ve come since then. We still haven’t gone far enough.”
Friendship on screen
Part of the delight of Wicked Little Letters is that it brings together this energetic pair of friends for the first time on screen. Buckley plays a free and outspoken woman, not so different from her, and Colman plays someone opposite of her. Colman summoned Buckley to offer him the role of her.
“I told him, ‘There’s a script and it would be you and me as neighbors insulting each other and having fun,'” Colman recalls. “And I think you said, ‘Okay!'”
Between interviews at a Soho hotel, Colman and Buckley’s conversation focused mainly on how much time they would have to enjoy that night. Or more specifically, how many drinks they could manage to squeeze out. “New York is the land of dirty martinis,” Buckley said.
Colman, however, was going in and out, and Buckley had an early call the next day. A situation similar to the one they had in The Lost Daughter (The dark daughter) by Maggie Gyllenhaal, for which Colman also suggested casting Buckley. (“You owe me!” Colman says with a London accent.) But in that movie, they played the same character at different times in his life. Colman and Buckley did not have any scenes together, but they did meet on set for a week while Colman was in quarantine.
“I told him, ‘Come on, when are you done? What do you want to drink? I’ll have it ready,'” Colman recalls. “We would spend the afternoon in the sun, drinking, playing guitar and singing. And Jessie would say, ‘(Expletive). I’m about to go to work.’ You were so heroic playing late into the night and then going to work.” .
Colman seems to be a bad influence in such circumstances.
“There’s a joke among our friends where Olivia says, ‘No, you can’t go home.’ There was a whole song on your birthday about not letting anyone leave the party.”
“I’ve done horrible things,” Colman acknowledges, hanging his head. “I locked the door to my house and hid the key. (Switches to a drunk voice) ‘I don’t know where it is’. I have images of friends running. They see an open door and run away.”
Benefits of your profession
Perhaps it goes without saying that Colman and Buckley endure little of the repression that lurks at the edges of Wicked Little Letters. They are separated by a few years (Colman is 50, Buckley 34), but they achieve dramatic and comic roles with naturalness and guts.
“The greatest gift this job gives you is that you can learn something that you need to unlearn in yourself. There are so many things in our world that we think we need because they are all around us,” Buckley says. “What I have learned is that you just have to continue educating yourself, feeding yourself and taking care of yourself. And there is something much more interesting than adopting what is considered acceptable in society.”
Working with people like Colman, Buckley says, has helped open his eyes to possibilities he may have never imagined when he was 15. “And I know that will never stop in my life,” she adds. “There’s too much to unpack!”
Colman picks up Buckley’s thread.
“I love the fact that I didn’t get into any drama schools apart from Bristol, which I got into because someone else dropped out,” says Colman. “I love all the auditions I didn’t get so I could say, ‘Ha! In your face.’ I think it gives you a little boost.”
Soon after, it’s time for Buckley and Colman to move on. As the sun sinks lower on the downtown horizon, the pair once again reflect on their plans for the evening.
“We’ll do something small,” Colman says, working it out. “We’re getting a lot more adult, aren’t we?” Buckley shakes his head vigorously. “No?” Colman asks. “Then I can make you go out tonight.”
FUENTE: AP
