'Rogue One' Star Felicity Jones On How Films Can Have a Greater Impact
Speaking with Deadline, Felicity Jones gave some insight into her view of filmmaking and the directors who head up those projects. She talked regarding Rogue One as well as this year's critically adored A Monster Calls, which was directed by JA Bayona.
"I’ve heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that’s probably the best way a director should be. They’re open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately it’s got to be that one person’s vision. That’s what I think makes a film really stand out.
"The atmosphere really changes from set to set, and it’s all about that person. It’s so important, as an actor, to watch everything a director has made, because it’ll tell you a lot about the film you’re about to do. People always reveal themselves in their work."
She describes Bayona as having a "bit of Hitchcock in him," describing it as a big of "critical distance." On having stronger female characters in film today, Jones said "I think it's almost taboo now, not to have nuanced female characters.
"I think audiences want them. We live in complicated times, and film has got to reflect that, and reflect the nuance and hanging ideas of gender."
She could Rogue One a "fantastic story" that was "magical making it. The scale of it, I think, and being thrown around a spaceship that's on a really high gimbal and it's rocking from side to side and then you and your cast mates are all hanging on to each other, and there's a camera right up in front of your face, and you're shouting to each other, “Come on, we got to get to hyperspace.” It’s brilliant."
Source: Comingsoon
