Did Charlize bring any ideas to the film?
ST: She is just so easy to direct. She makes everyone’s job really easy. She does ask a lot of questions. It’s not really about coaxing a performance out of her. It’s really about when she gets it perfect on the first time, what do you do then? That was a strange moment. Usually you try to spend a lot of time trying to get what you want, but with her it was instant. Stuart, how did your experience growing up in Ireland, with the struggles between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, inform your vision of this movie? ST: Definitely growing up with riots, there’s something in there that reacts to that visual. I have seen colonialism. I think there’s a justice streak in Irish people. We’re one of the few countries in the world that was oppressed by colonization rather than being the oppressor. It wasn’t really part of my life, because I grew up in Dublin in the 1970s, but there may have been some ancestral blood thing going on. You filmed part of this film in Canada. This film is
