Russell Tovey

Like, were there people that inspired you to want to be a filmmaker?

God, so many.

Yeah.

Chris Cunningham is such an interesting one because he did so many amazing films for Apex Twin, Björk.

They used to have those amazing DVDs that were like compilations of Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, all these different artists at the time.

Chris Cunningham, what was it that drew you to him?

Was it Apex Twin or...?

And she's another great example, though, of not artist.

Yeah, yeah.

She's so incredible.

Yeah, I mean, I was given hope to see that Hollywood is kind of starting to reach out to you.

You even made that documentary about Humphrey Bogart.

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, you've had these kind of opportunities coming.

And I feel like it's exciting to see that women are actually being supported in terms of being directors now.

Because often when you watch the Oscars or you watch these things, there's like so few women.

And I often still feel that even in TV, like in British TV, say, a lot of the programming, yes, there's women who I know who are working in shows and things like that.

Yeah.

But a lot of it is still quite macho, the actual approach to it all.

And even in music shows, it's always quite male-led still, and it kind of just winds me up.