“I had recently done a job and did not like much of the process,” Olivia Colman said in IndieWire Studio at Sundancepresented by Dropbox, in talking about the circumstances that led to her new film “Jimpa“, directed by Sophie Hyde.
“And then my agents said” I think you will love this one. I think you will love working with Sophie. And I thought, ‘I really want to work with Sophie’, Colman added. “You make such a piece with a filmmaker like this one who maintains you in the closest, which will not be really as fun potentially. Although I often like what I do. Oh God, now I insult all. Ask a question To someone else! ‘
That funny there shows the relaxed, family-like atmosphere among Colman, Hyde and Colman’s co-player Aud Mason Hyde (who is also a child of Sophie Hyde) when they visit IndieWire Studio.
In fact, the film, about Colman and Mason-Hydes characters (they are a parent-child relationship based on Hydes and Mason Hydes own relationship) who will visit the Father of the Colman character, “Jimpa”, played by John Lithgow, in Amsterdam, taken a lot from Aud and Sophie’s own lives.
“It’s amazing to do something about yourself and not about yourself too,” said Mason Hyde. “It was like therapy every day not to judge my character, even though it was my younger self.”
The film affects some generational differences in the LGBT community, especially Jimpa’s lack of understanding of trans- and non-binary individuals and the use of pronouns, although he came out as gay at a time he was met by active hostility in the 1970s. .
Colman and Hyde, however, do not see the film as a depiction of conflicts.
“See, someone else said conflict today, but I don’t think there is conflict (among their characters in the film),” Colman said. “I think (my character) felt no doubt that she was loved. Conflict may come from people who have not experienced love. If they were not loved in their younger years, conflicts arise.”
Colman, who plays a version of Hyde, is depicted in “Jimpa” when he pitches a movie for producers that she says will not have any conflict. Her producers push back and ask how it can even be a drama then. It “got a big laugh from the audience” at the Sundance premiere, said Colman.
“We push back against the idea that all drama is by its nature conflict or that conflict is the only thing that is interesting in drama,” Hyde said.
“I think it’s a very non-binary thing in general,” said Mason Hyde, who identifies himself as a non-binary. “The idea that you can have all these different things that we can call contradictory or contradictory but that they can all be in one person and there is no conflict about it because there is enough room for all of us to coexist.”
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