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Keira Knightley Interview For ‘Never Let Me Go’
Feb 10th
Keira Knightley is firmly established as one of Britain’s true global superstars, the London-born actress shot to fame thanks to her feisty, swashbuckling turn opposite Johnny Depp in the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy. A child actor, Knightley first made waves in Bend It Like Beckham which, along with a small but memorable part in Love Actually, launched her in Hollywood, and led to Pirates and the title role of bounty hunter Domino Harvey in Tony Scott’s Domino. Knightley returned home to star as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and since then has continued to prove her versatility and talent with acclaimed performances both on stage and in films such as Atonement, The Duchess and The Edge Of Love. In Never Let Me Go, Knightley co-stars as Ruth whose relationship with Andrew Garfield’s Tommy drives an irrevocable wedge into her lifelong friendship with Carey Mulligan’s Kathy. ‘Never Let Me Go’ hits cinemas in the UK the 11th February. The film was released on DVD in the US Febuary 1st.
What attracted you to the part of Ruth? Some might be surprised that it’s more of a supporting role.
Keira Knightley: I sort of felt a little bit trapped by the whole notion that I was only meant to do lead roles. I was reading a lot of stuff and I didn’t necessarily like the leads and I thought that the supporting roles were often very interesting, and so I thought, whose rules am I playing by here? It’s got to be the ones I make up for myself, and I’d like to play this role because I find it really interesting and I’d like to know what makes this person tick. I often have quite strong reactions to characters and morally I thought she was pretty reprehensible and I didn’t like her when I read it. And I thought that was quite interesting and I wanted to know why that person behaves the way they do and try and understand why she became the person that she did. I thought that was an interesting process and something I wanted to look into.
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Andrew Garfield Interview For ‘Never Let Me Go’
Feb 9th
To say Andrew Garfield has had a cracking year is a bit of an understatement. In addition to his emotional turn as a human clone opposite Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley in ‘Never Let Me Go’ and his role as Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, in ‘The Social Network’ garnering him BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, Garfield will don Spider-Man’s red and blue spandex in Marc Webb’s 3D reboot of the Marvel webslinger. Check out what Garfield had to say about ‘Never Let Me Go’ below. ‘Never Let Me Go’ hits cinemas in the UK the 11th February. The film was released on DVD in the US Febuary 1st.
What was it about the role of Tommy that attracted you?
Andrew Garfield: Gosh man, it’s one of those rare ones, one of those rare stories that comes along where you go, ‘This is utterly unique, this is epic’. I hadn’t read the book but I read the script and thought, ‘This is fascinating and interesting and odd and deeply, deeply human and sad’. And then I read the book and it just filled all the space in my imagination in. You go, ‘This is life and death, this is an epic story of life and death and how short our time is, everything we experience in our own life’. These kids aren’t any different, it’s just a much more extreme situation for them. So I got excited about that and I had met Mark Romanek in Los Angeles when he started casting, just me and him and his camera and I found his energy to be really exciting and playful and open and free and that was one of the funniest auditions I’ve had in a while, and I felt immediately that I wanted to do this. It was one of those rare things where everything gets in unison and why wouldn’t I do it? It’s a no-brainer and I find it difficult to make a decision to do something unless it’s a no-brainer and this one was, F*ck yes, if they’ll have me.
Carey Mulligan & Andrew Garfield Interview For Never Let Me Go
Oct 13th
At the 54th BFI London Film Festival I caught up with Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield for their upcoming film Never Let Me Go, the much anticipated movie based on Kauzo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel of the same name. I had the good fortune of attending the press screening this morning and I have to say it’s one of the most tender, brooding and all around fantastic movies of the year! Check out what they had to say below.
How much of a responsibility did you feel towards the book?
Andrew Garfield: I think it’s very rare that you find a script that is so full of what it is to be alive, to be human and the struggles that we collectively go through, it has massive existential question marks. As actors you search for that meaningful material and when it comes along you feel it instantly. There are terrible scripts, there are good scripts and then there are scripts like this one. I think none of us hesitated in being a part of this beautiful story.
Carey Mulligan: I read the book when it came out and loved it, I always loved it first and foremost because it’s a love story and it’s about…um…you can want very simple things from life but not get them. Keira and I had done Pride & Prejudice together, we’ve done adaptations of Dickens and Austin and other things by authors who are not around to tell you off if you’ve got it wrong (laughs), so this was a lot more intimidating because we had Kazuo Ishiguro with us, and we wanted to do everything he imagined when he wrote it – and also for the people who have read the book and fell in love with it, so there was more pressure.
From reading the book and knowing who else was going to be in the film I always felt we were all on the same page and that we were going to make the same film. We were all so in love with it, we were big fans of the book and found out so much more about the book by doing it.
With director Mark Romanek and screenwriter Alex Garland doing such a fantastic job capturing the book, was everything you needed to portray the characters in the script? Or did you find yourself referring back to the book?
Carey Mulligan: We were with the book the whole time, the script was perfect, I don’t think a line was changed from when I first read it Febuary of last year to when we shot. We also had a great environment to work in with Mark. Mark had a copy of the book with him all the time, I had a copy of the book with me, we all had the book with us the whole time, we always would refer to that. We had a brilliant script but especially for me the whole book is narrated by my character, so I felt like I had to refer to it. Also it’s great to go back to it for ideas, you can play a scene a certain way, then you can find one line that could inspire you to do something different.
Andrew Garfield: Yeah I think across the board everyone was deeply reverent to the source material, whether he likes it or not (laughs), I think he gets a little sick by how reverent we were, we still bow when he enters the room and make him very uncomfortable (laughs), it’s fun to watch. I think collectively we all had the same intention, that intention sprang from Kasou’s story
Seeing as you’ve both starred in Blockbusters and the more critically acclaimed films, do you have different approaches to them at all?
Andrew Garfield: No not for me, I’m pretty sure I can say we all approach every job as if it were our last and our first. You don’t look at it from a perspective of a big film, or a small film, you don’t think I have to be REALLY good in this. I think you just have to work hard at what you care about. Carey and Keira I respect greatly because they do projects that means something to them, I’m speaking for them right now though (laughs), but I’m sure they don’t discriminate in terms of size or any of that kind of thing, it’s not an issue.
Carey Mulligan: That was very well said (laughs).
How much of a challenge was it to be a part of a project that is so full of emotion?
Andrew Garfield: I find it easier to cry than to make people laugh (laughs).
Carey Mulligan: It is, it’s always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place. I think for us with this it was trying not to cry, I cry all the time, it’s my modus operandi (laughs). We all wanted to mark each other and say don’t drop a tear, we were all watching each other. With our characters we didn’t want to portray tragedy, we just wanted to live in the circumstances we were in and the circumstances we had.
New Clip From Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go – Starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley & Andrew Garfield
Sep 21st
Those exclamation point lovers over at Yahoo! Movies! have let loose on a new clip from Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. The film is based on Kauzo Ishiguro’s highly acclaimed novel of the same name. In the clip Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Ruth (Keira Knightley) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield) learn about ‘deferrals’. I’ve really liked what I’ve seen from this film, it looks like a haunting, heartbreaking and visually stunning flick. Just to note the clip gives away a key plot point, if you want to see the movie fresh I would give this clip a miss.
Never Let Me Go is a poignant love story, adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling, Booker Prize short listed novel of the same name. As children, Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them. Never Let Me Go comes to theaters October 1st, 2010 and stars Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Charlie Rowe, Andrea Riseborough. The film is directed by Mark Romanek.
New Trailer For Never Let Me Go – Starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley & Andrew Garfield
Sep 10th
A new trailer for Mark Romanek’s highly anticipated film, “Never Let Me Go” has hit the internet via The Guardian and it’s a cracker! The film is based on Kauzo Ishiguro’s novel of the same name, which as the trailer discreetly points out is apparently ‘the novel of the decade – Time Magazine’. This looks like certain Oscar bait, I’ll be checking it out myself at the Toronto Film Festival in a few days, I fully expect it to be a gem. It looks like a haunting, heartbreaking and visually stunning flick. Check out the synopsis and trailer below. Interviews with the cast coming soon 
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Never Let Me Go is a poignant love story, adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling, Booker Prize short listed novel of the same name. As children, Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them. Never Let Me Go comes to theaters October 1st, 2010 and stars Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Charlie Rowe, Andrea Riseborough. The film is directed by Mark Romanek.
Three Character Poster For Never Let Me Go – Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield & Keira Knightley
Aug 25th
Three striking character posters have been released by Fox Searchlight for Mark Romanek’s highly anticipated film Never Let Me Go. I’ve been looking forward to this film for a good moment or two now, it looks fascinating. Every piece of marketing is just building up even more excitement for me. The movie is based on Kauzo Ishiguro’s much acclaimed novel of the same name – as you can see written confidently on the posters ‘Based on: The best novel of the decade – Time’. They’re some bold word, I hope this lives up to the hype, it looks like it could be one of the most tender, brooding and all around fantastic movies of the year.
Never Let Me Go is a poignant love story, adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling, Booker Prize short listed novel of the same name. As children, Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them. Never Let Me Go comes to theaters October 1st, 2010 and stars Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Charlie Rowe, Andrea Riseborough. The film is directed by Mark Romanek.
