INTERVIEW: Emmy-Winning ‘Ted Lasso’ Casting Director Theo Park
[This interview was first published in Issue 5 of our Patreon Digital Magazine] Theo Park is a casting director who has worked on Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers and High Rise, Paul King’s Paddington, Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd, Ben Palmer’s Man Up, Susanna Fogel’s…
INTERVIEW: ‘Ted Lasso’ Composer Tom Howe
Tom Howe is an Emmy-nominated composer who has worked on films such as A Shaun the Sheep – Farmageddon, Early Man and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. He has also worked on TV shows including Four in a Bed, Taskmaster and Whiskey Cavalier. We…
INTERVIEW: ‘Ted Lasso’ Hair & Makeup Designer Nicky Austin
Apple TV’s Ted Lasso has captured the hearts of several locked-down nations and provided that comforting cuppa tea and baby-pink box of homemade shortbread that we’ve all sorely needed in the last year or so. The costumes, hair and make up all combine to help…
INTERVIEW: ‘Ted Lasso’ Costume Designer Jacky Levy
Apple TV+’s award-winning series Ted Lasso unexpectedly captured the heart of the nation when it aired during lockdown last year. The endearing tale of a small-time American football coach hired to coach the struggling English team AFC Richmond quickly trended on social media, due to…
TV REVIEW: Lisey’s Story (2021)
Apple TV’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story (debuting 4 June) is first and foremost an exploration of love and loss. It’s romantic and tender and at times even a little heart-aching. But King being King, of course, elements of supernatural horror and stalker thriller…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Costume Designer Caroline Duncan
They can be a lot to take in — the twists and turns, ordinary and otherwise, that creators Tony Basgallop and M. Night Shyamalan have planted in the Apple TV+ psychological horror show Servant, now in its second season and is focusing on Dorothy (Lauren…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Production Designer Naaman Marshall
How’s this for a M. Night Shyamalan twist: The Philadelphia in Servant is not exactly Philadelphia. In the Apple TV+ series from Tony Basgallop and Shyamalan himself, the world is reduced to the four walls and four floors of the brownstone where the Turners (Lauren…
TV REVIEW: Calls (2021)
It’s not in the official description, but it might as well: If the world is a pool, Calls is the deep end where the The Twilight Zone dares not enter. Yes, the new Apple TV+ series from Fede Álvarez can be that bizarre. The U.S….
REVIEW: Cherry (2021)
There is no denying Tom Holland has developed some genuine star power very quickly into his career. Being Spider-Man is sure to catapult anyone straight onto the A-List, but Tom Holland has taken his fame and run with it by being preposterously charming during press…
TV REVIEW: Ted Lasso (Season 1)
Takin’ on a challenge is a lot like ridin’ a horse. If you’re comfortable while you’re doin’ it, you’re probably doin’ it wrong. If there was one thing I didn’t expect to happen going into 2021 it’s that I would find myself caring about a…
REVIEW: On the Rocks (NYFF 2020)
Sofia Coppola has had an illustrious career, from The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010), The Bling Ring (2013) all the way through to The Beguiled (2017). She has become something of an expert in portraying the malaise and…
Ten New Releases on July Tenth!
We all know it’s been a strange year (both in terms of movies and well, everything else) and it would be easy to assume, with all of the endless delays to high-profile films like TENET and the latest BOND, that this means it’s a barren…
INTERVIEW: ‘Dickinson’ Costume Designer John Dunn
John Dunn is an Emmy-nominated costume designer whose TV work includes Hunters, Castle Rock, Vinyl, Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men. His film work includes Casino (1995), Basquiat (1996), Birth (2004), Factory Girl (2006), I’m Not There (2007) and Away We Go (2009). We discussed the…
