Simon Mayo

Does he improv?

How do those scenes go?

I wonder if the director is Daniel Roa, is his Oscar winning, because he was the man behind Navalny, but is his first...

story which he's telling and I wonder if actually a background in documentary making was ideal for those kind of scenes where he just keeps rolling you know there's no script he's filming a documentary so maybe that's how he felt when he was doing those scenes yeah I think the two went hand in hand I think it was really freeing as a performer to feel

The other behind the scenes guy, uh, to mention, I think, I mean, I, I being an audio person and a radio person, I've always like it when a movie sounds fantastic and the sound designers, Johnny Byrne, uh, zone of interest that was in, but particularly sound of metal.

Um, so the, the way we hear what you are experiencing, uh,

that there's jazz music and there's classical music and then there is incredible noise which leads to great distress.

Johnny Byrne has done a fantastic job.

Yeah, which I think people will admire very much.

So your character, Nicky, comes from where?

What is the accent that you have to master for this?

Okay.

How difficult is that?

What's the most difficult accent you've had to do?

So in this movie, we watch you as a piano tuner and as a pianist, right?

What is the most difficult skill, in inverted commas, you've had to acquire in a movie?

And I'm not talking about being Tom Hollander's nephew, not that skill, but any other skill that you've had to sort of acquire as an actor?

That's a practical skill.

And just speaking of piano, we cannot finish the interview without mentioning, uh, the

actor who plays Ruthie who is the pianist and the person who your character falls for played by Havana Rose Lou now she is either an astonishing pianist and a great actor or she has really learned all those art skills that you've told us about earlier because she looks amazing yeah she really hit it out of the park it was so much work