TheWrap Magazine
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How ‘Fire of Love’ Doc Captured the Larger-Than-Life Spirit of Famed Volcanologists
TheWrap magazine: “The more we learned, and the more imagery we saw, we were just blown away — forgive the pun,” says director Sara Dosa
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‘Holy Spider’ Director Ali Abbasi Says Protests in Iran Have Made His Film About Murdered Sex Workers ‘Part of a Bigger Thing’
TheWrap magazine: “The magnitude of what’s happening in Iran, it’s so huge that I forget about the movie sometimes,” Abbasi says
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Asks a Timely Question: How Fragile Is Democracy?
TheWrap magazine: “There was a lot of mistrust, a lot of misinformation, a lot of skepticism in the air,” says actor Ricardo Darín of the case study behind Argentina’s Oscar entry
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How Celebrated Composer J. Ralph Focused on ‘Empowerment’ to Write Song for ‘The Voice of Dust and Ash’
TheWrap magazine: Ralph’s song is featured in a key scene of the documentary about the late Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian
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How ‘Decision to Leave’ Director Park Chan-wook Combined Police Procedural and Romance to Make His Slow-Burn Mystery
TheWrap magazine: ” I wanted to make a sexy story without sex and a love story that does not say the words, ‘I love you,’” Park says
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How ‘Tár’ and ‘Women Talking’ Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Surprised Herself With an ‘Optimistic’ Score
TheWrap magazine: Guðnadóttir composed for two very different films that both took her on “beautiful” creative journeys” and “Women Talking” could get the Oscar-winning composer of “Joker” back on the Oscars red carpet in 2023
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Director Laura Poitras Was Intimidated to Work With ‘Incredibly Brave’ Artist Nan Goldin on Doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’
TheWrap magazine: “Both in the process of this film and in her own work, she goes to a place that rarely artists go to, in terms of vulnerability and honesty,” Poitras told TheWrap
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‘Wednesday’ Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on Collaborating With Tim Burton on the Creepy, Kooky Series
TheWrap magazine: When it came time to look for directors, “He was always our first choice, for obvious reasons,” Gough says
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How ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Brought a New Middle-earth to Life
TheWrap magazine: The cast and showrunners share behind-the-scenes stories about lengthy audition processes, casting Sauron and bonding during a pandemic
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‘Women Talking’ Director Sarah Polley Describes the ‘Power of Community’ in Her Ensemble Cast
TheWrap magazine: The Canadian actor-turned-director was joined by Judith Ivey and Sheila McCartney for a conversation about the acclaimed new film
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‘Andor’ Star Diego Luna on Why His ‘Star Wars’ Character’s Journey Is All About Patience
TheWrap magazine: “A revolutionary doesn’t get shaped by one event or by the words of a mentor,” Luna says. “Things have to happen.”
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‘The Woman King’ Cast on the Long ‘Fight’ to Make Their Blockbuster
TheWrap magazine: “To finally get it made, to finally have your feet on the soil of South Africa, was really close to a miracle,” Viola Davis says
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‘Saint Omer’ Director Alice Diop on How Her Film About Infanticide Explores the ‘Mystery That Is the Human Soul’
TheWrap magazine: Diop based her first fiction film, which is France’s submission to the Oscars, on a tragic real-life story
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‘Bardo’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu: Autobiographies Lie, but Fiction Tells the Truth
TheWrap magazine: “Autobiography pretends it’s making factual claims, but it’s not,” says the director of “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”
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‘Corsage’ Star Vicky Krieps on Why Her Film About a 19th Century Monarch Is an Act of Rebellion
TheWrap magazine: Playing Empress Sisi was the actress’s way of making a statement about what it means to be a 21st-century woman — and a celebrity
