Inside Rumours
Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance lead an ensemble cast as the fictional German Chancellor and POTUS in Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s political satire, Rumours. They tell Hollywood Authentic about night shoots, AI fears, outlawing pineapples and tall poppy syndrome.
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Delirious is how you might describe the movie itself…
Charles Dance: It’s not a Marvel picture. Guy Maddin really is an arthouse director but this is not purely an arthouse film.
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Are you an eternal optimist like Nikki is?
Charles Dance: I despair with politics, really. The worst thing that happened, of course, was that [Britain] decided to leave the European Union. It was one of the most depressing days in the history of my country. But I didn’t look at this script politically, actually, at all. For me I thought this was a cross between Luis Buñuel and an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. And I’m a fan of both of those things. It’s why I wanted to do it.
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Does AI worry you?
Charles Dance: There were so many extraordinary advances in the last hundred years, far more than there’s been in the last thousand years. Suddenly, we as a species, we’ve yet to learn the law of cause and effect. We think, ‘Yes, we can do this. We can do this. We can do this’. Every now and again, somebody says, ‘Yeah, but what if we do?’ You know? I think that question that needs to be asked very, very loudly with AI, because it’s incredibly powerful.
Charles Dance: Years ago, I voiced a character in a cartoon. There was a comic in England called the Eagle, and one of the strips in it was a space thing. I went in to voice one of these characters. As I was going in, Albert Finney – bless him – was coming out. He saw me, and he said, ‘The writing’s on the wall, kid’.
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What was il like working with three directors?
Charles Dance: There’s different kinds of directors who try to put performances in, and there’s directors who try to bring performances out. I prefer to work with the latter, but it depends on how good they are. The film industry is not populated completely with wonderful directors. There are some who don’t know their arse from a hole in the ground, in the same way there are actors who really don’t know what they’re doing. But these three managed to create an environment in which we were encouraged to contribute, which is a very healthy way of working.
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How did you find your characters, did you base them on anyone?
Charles Dance: We purposely didn’t push it in any direction. I guess if somebody sees a parallel in that with me and Joe Biden, then fine. OK. But that wasn’t in my head at the time.
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Mr Dance was at the Emilia Perez receptionat restaurant River Cafe in London.
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A-List stars including Dame Judy Dench, Charles Dance and Sharon Osborne, Joanna Lumley, Ricky Gervais, etc.... appeal to help them get trophy hunting banned in 2025.
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Charles Dance : actor | Full Q&A at The Oxford Union
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