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Sophie Okonedo | Interview
17 hours ago
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Even for an actress of Sophie Okonedo's talent, playing Mrs Mandela was a huge challenge. Here, the reluctant star talks about wearing fat suits, avoiding red carpets, and the trip to Darfur which changed her life
There's a clutch of scenes near the middle of the forthcoming TV film Mrs Mandela where you can hardly keep watching, so grimly intense is the mutual onscreen hatred. Infamous Afrikaans police interrogator Theunis Swanepoel is played, with terrifying greasy-haired intensity, by David Morrissey, who even wields those loveless gutturals of the Sith Efrican accent like a stick. Winnie Mandela is played, grovelling on the floor, by turns terrified and defiant, her psyche altering by the minute, by Sophie Okonedo: and I am asking her how they even met each other's eyes afterwards, once "Cut!" was called: both must have been slumped, torn, empty, choked.
"Those scenes are certainly intense, desperately so.
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- Euan Ferguson
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The Decade in Film: The Ones That Last
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If you watch two films in close proximity to one another, it’s pretty easy to tell which one you liked more. Watch three, and you can still tell pretty easily, but it’s more subject to change. Watch films on a regular basis for about a decade, and it becomes nearly impossible, not to mention pointless and kind of reductive to try and rank them in the way you would sports teams. If you’re in any way engaged with the world, your opinions and attitudes will change somewhat over that course of time, and to try and reduce that entire expanse of time into a trite little list is, well, why would you want to do it?
I’m not going to argue that these films are the absolute best of the decade (though I think that a case could be made for several of them, and I
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- Anders Nelson
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