The Big Issue: So you finished lots of work in the nick of time?
Tuppence Middleton: I was so lucky. I finished Mank two weeks before lockdown, flew back from Los Angeles, got to see family and friends, then the country locked down. It was being edited during lockdown – as was Shadowplay, which we shot in Prague, and Possessor, which was filmed in Canada. Situations change, funding is sparse, and Covid affects everything. So I was very lucky these projects were done and dusted.
Mank feels like a love letter to classic Hollywood.
If you work in this industry, it makes you think two polarised thoughts. Oh wow, the glamour, didn’t everything look so beautiful and wasn’t it great when our private lives were more mysterious? But…
