Interview With "Empire Of Light" Star, Micheal Ward

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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"Empire Of Light" may be the most personal story Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes has ever made and receiving award nominations for its leading star Olivia Colman and its cinematography by Roger Deakins. Still, one of the film's best assets is its breakout star, BAFTA Rising Star Award winner Micheal Ward ("Blue Story"). The young 25-year-old actor has a bright future ahead of him, and in Mendes' film, he plays opposite Olivia Colman as a new hire employee at the cinema she manages in the 1980s off the south coast of England. Micheal talked with us about what the journey has been like so far for him with this film, where he sees his career next, working with his co-stars on this film, and more. Please take a listen below and enjoy. Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Emma Sassick's interview,
0:04.9	with the star from Empire of Light, Michael Ward.
0:07.9	Phil, it's just static frames, with darkness in between.
0:23.6	There's a little flaw in your optic nerve. So if I run the film at 24 frames per second,
0:29.6	it creates an illusion of motion,
0:32.6	illusion of life. So you don't see the darkness.
0:45.3	Out there, I just see a beam without light.
1:05.6	Okay, Michael, it is a pleasure, as I just said, to be able to chat with you for the Next Best Picture podcast.
1:13.3	It's been exciting to see everything that this film has achieved so far.
1:19.1	I'm sure for you, too, being behind all of it.
1:21.9	How have these last few weeks and months been?
1:25.9	I mean, these last few weeks and months have been absolutely amazing, first and foremost.
1:32.3	Very busy, very, I'd say inspirational, you know, being able to be around all the amazing
1:40.6	talent again and people.
1:43.9	And also just very man i can't think of the word but it's it's
1:51.2	really showed me how much more i want to be able to do what i want to do you i'm trying to say to you that
1:55.2	to be able to travel with this film has been amazing that you i'm saying I got to go to this place called
2:01.6	Middleburg, which I've never heard of before. I've got to Savannah, you know, places that I just
2:07.5	never really thought about. But when I went there, they were amazing and that people received
2:11.8	the film well. And you just know that loads of different kind of people are getting to see the
2:16.2	film. So I think it's truly,
2:17.5	truly been a blessing to be involved in this. Sometimes it's incredible what one opportunity
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