George MacKay: ‘I trained as a Cornish fisherman with Callum Turner – it’s tough work’
The new movie is a disorienting tale set in a coastal town.
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Previous Page Next Page‘The contemporary context is what it is. Places are run down. There’s a lot of poverty, there’s a lot of dereliction. We’re in a post-industrial landscape, so yeah.
‘That isn’t the point of the film, but in terms of building a context of the modern day and the time slip going back 30 years – it’s either side of the effects of austerity.
‘I wanted to draw attention to the stuff that, now, is totally normalised. So now, for most people, it’s insignificant that there are food banks on every street.
‘But by putting it in a film, [you] give it a bit of significance because you see that the food bank 30 years ago was a post office, which was the heart of a community.
‘We used to have all of these things that we’ve lost…’ he reflected.
Rose of Nevada premieres at the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday, October 15, and Saturday, October 18. It will arrive in UK cinemas in 2026.
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