John Wilson
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3,430 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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I find that incredibly difficult.
And when you headed to set, did you have any particular directors in mind, anybody that you wanted to emulate their style, their approach?
Not really.
I mean, I've been incredibly lucky in my career, particularly in film, where I've worked with such a variety from Nicholas Winding Refn to Sidney Pollock to Anthony Minghella.
Robert Redford.
Robert Redford to Robert Lepage, you know, and various French films with less well-known directors, but completely accomplished and brilliant and specific and needling and difficult.
So I think it was a great big soup for me.
of all of that, if I can say that without sounding too dismissive.
And making the film, because I said, why did you want to fictionalise that such a personal story?
Has it helped you make sense of those early years?
Not as much as you might think, because I think that my work on that had been completed.
I've had to do a lot of personal work, as they say, with a psychoanalyst and then therapy later.
And I've done a lot of that to avoid deep and dark and debilitating depression.
I've really had to work on that and come out of that.
And it's taken a long time.
And I think the culmination of that was working on Electra, which is the ultimate sort of story of daughters and fathers and was written 2600 years ago and is so unbelievably on it as far as emotion is concerned.
It's extraordinary.
Just doing that play really put it to bed.
And actually, funnily enough, after doing that play, I decided, right, no more tragedies.
I've spent it all.
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