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Beginners - Interview Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor
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I gradually felt as if the part had been written for me.
"I've never played a part like that before, on screen or stage. It was fascinating," he says, adding cheekily: "Who knows what will happen in my 80s?" (Plummer
(Plummer, whose daughter is the actress Amanda Plummer, lives with his third wife, Elaine Taylor, in Connecticut.)
Beginners tells the story of Oliver, played by Ewan McGregor, simultaneously trying to deal with two bombshells from his elderly father -- that he is gay, and that he is seriously ill -- while trying to stay in love himself. The story resembles the real experience of Mike Mills, the film's writer and director (last at TIFF with Thumbsucker in 2005), and his late father, who did reveal he was gay at 75 and had, as Mills puts it, "five very intense, brand-new years of being gay and being very free."
Plummer, on the telephone from Stratford where he is finishing the last performances of an acclaimed run of Shakespeare's The Tempest, is in a jovial mood. He is enthusiastic about the experience of shooting the film -- "I don't think I've ever had as good a time playing a role, anywhere" -- and though the film has yet to find a distributor, he feels that if "someone gets behind it who can push it, I really think it might have a little chance."
At the outset, when Mills and Plummer confronted the delicate family dynamic, Plummer said he neither wanted to, nor could, play Mills's father accurately, and Mills agreed he shouldn't try.
"From the beginning, the goal was never to do any sort of mimicry of my father. But the film does have a whole historical channel to it. It does take a lot of dates and facts that are very real," Mills says by phone from Los Angeles. "The way I keep describing it is that the verbs and the actions do come from things that happened between me and my father, but all the proper nouns have been erased."
Full movie on Christopher Plummer website:
www.christopherplummer.eu/page7.php
"I've never played a part like that before, on screen or stage. It was fascinating," he says, adding cheekily: "Who knows what will happen in my 80s?" (Plummer
(Plummer, whose daughter is the actress Amanda Plummer, lives with his third wife, Elaine Taylor, in Connecticut.)
Beginners tells the story of Oliver, played by Ewan McGregor, simultaneously trying to deal with two bombshells from his elderly father -- that he is gay, and that he is seriously ill -- while trying to stay in love himself. The story resembles the real experience of Mike Mills, the film's writer and director (last at TIFF with Thumbsucker in 2005), and his late father, who did reveal he was gay at 75 and had, as Mills puts it, "five very intense, brand-new years of being gay and being very free."
Plummer, on the telephone from Stratford where he is finishing the last performances of an acclaimed run of Shakespeare's The Tempest, is in a jovial mood. He is enthusiastic about the experience of shooting the film -- "I don't think I've ever had as good a time playing a role, anywhere" -- and though the film has yet to find a distributor, he feels that if "someone gets behind it who can push it, I really think it might have a little chance."
At the outset, when Mills and Plummer confronted the delicate family dynamic, Plummer said he neither wanted to, nor could, play Mills's father accurately, and Mills agreed he shouldn't try.
"From the beginning, the goal was never to do any sort of mimicry of my father. But the film does have a whole historical channel to it. It does take a lot of dates and facts that are very real," Mills says by phone from Los Angeles. "The way I keep describing it is that the verbs and the actions do come from things that happened between me and my father, but all the proper nouns have been erased."
Full movie on Christopher Plummer website:
www.christopherplummer.eu/page7.php