Mike Leigh calls America 'Trump Land' and worries that the country's population doesn't fully grasp the threat he poses.

The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

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

Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...

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

In an interview with The Times, Leigh, 81, responded to those questioning whether he had the right, as a white filmmaker, to direct a project featuring an almost entirely Black cast.

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 ...