That thought process has been locked from the word go ... would be my ideal next job and who would be the director,” she replies. “It would be a Mike Leigh heist movie.” Leigh is uninterested. “Let me ...

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...

But he makes the most incredible pieces of work so you go along with him.” Leigh’s process begins by asking his actors to make a list of people who make an impact on their daily lives or who ...

His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...

By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with memories. As an actor, what is that process like? Do you wish ...

Before his 2024 film Hard Truths was released, Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication ...

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...

"I'm there to make you care, to move you, to make you laugh, to make you cry…to hopefully improve your lives." Mike Leigh has ...

Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin reunite on Hard Truths, a film exploring the toll of physical and mental pain.