Whether she’s playing an alien sharpshooter, android or powerful socialite, Gemma Chan has emerged as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Such adaptability is again on display in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, as Chan plays a literary agent on behalf of Meryl Streep’s acclaimed novelist, Alice Hughes. While Soderbergh and screenwriter Deborah Eisenberg provided the actors with a “bible” that included key exposition, Chan and the rest of the cast improvised their dialogue for the duration of the film. Besides the pressure of improvising, Chan had to do so alongside Streep — one of the most, if ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Whether she’s playing an alien sharpshooter, android or powerful socialite, Gemma Chan has emerged as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Such adaptability is again on display in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, as Chan plays a literary agent on behalf of Meryl Streep’s acclaimed novelist, Alice Hughes. While Soderbergh and screenwriter Deborah Eisenberg provided the actors with a “bible” that included key exposition, Chan and the rest of the cast improvised their dialogue for the duration of the film. Besides the pressure of improvising, Chan had to do so alongside Streep — one of the most, if ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The majority of Steven Soderbergh’s delicious new comedy “Let Them All Talk” occurs on a cruise ship crossing from New York to London. Amidst the mass of passengers onboard, we’re focused on four women: Alice Hughes (Meryl Streep), a fictional Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist, her two oldest friends, Roberta (Candice Bergen) and Susan (Dianne Wiest), and Alice’s zealous new literary agent (Gemma Chan). Simmering among these four women are countless secrets, resentments, and regrets — and somewhere across the Atlantic, all of them are bound to come to a boil.
In directing the film, Soderbergh took a guerrilla approach. He eschewed the usual trove of lights and equipment, favoring natural lighting and a wheelchair for dolly shots. Much of the dialogue was unscripted, too — Streep has said that Soderbergh provided the actors with outlines of each scene and directed them to improvise their lines. The result is an organic,...
In directing the film, Soderbergh took a guerrilla approach. He eschewed the usual trove of lights and equipment, favoring natural lighting and a wheelchair for dolly shots. Much of the dialogue was unscripted, too — Streep has said that Soderbergh provided the actors with outlines of each scene and directed them to improvise their lines. The result is an organic,...
- 12/10/2020
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
A year after they teamed up on the Panama Papers biopic “The Laundromat,” Meryl Streep and Steven Soderbergh are reuniting for the pressure-cooker drama “Let Them All Talk,” which got a new trailer ahead of its HBO Max release on Dec. 10.
Streep plays Alice Hughes, a renowned author with a lot of burned bridges. Hoping to make amends, she goes on a cruise with her nephew (Lucas Hedges) and two old friends (Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen). But when her nephew becomes involved with a literary agent (Gemma Chan), tensions quickly rise as Hughes is forced to confront her past and the mistakes she made in her relationships.
As streaming services have invested more in feature films, Soderbergh has jumped right into the fray with a pair of 2019 Netflix films, “High Flying Bird” and “The Laundromat.”
“Let Them All Talk” is one of two films the director is developing for...
Streep plays Alice Hughes, a renowned author with a lot of burned bridges. Hoping to make amends, she goes on a cruise with her nephew (Lucas Hedges) and two old friends (Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen). But when her nephew becomes involved with a literary agent (Gemma Chan), tensions quickly rise as Hughes is forced to confront her past and the mistakes she made in her relationships.
As streaming services have invested more in feature films, Soderbergh has jumped right into the fray with a pair of 2019 Netflix films, “High Flying Bird” and “The Laundromat.”
“Let Them All Talk” is one of two films the director is developing for...
- 11/15/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
HBO Max has released the first trailer for Meryl Streep and Steven Soderbergh’s highly anticipated film “Let Them All Talk.”
The comedy follows a renowned author, Alice Hughes (Streep), who embarks on a journey with old friends in the hopes of healing old wounds. Her nephew also comes along to accompany the ladies, until he finds himself involved with a young literary agent. As they are all stuck together on a cruise ship, tensions begin to rise, and Streep’s character is forced to confront the ways in which she may have hurt the ones she loves the most.
Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan round out the cast. The screenplay was written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
Streep previously starred in Soderbergh’s Panama Papers drama, “The Laundromat,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and debuted on Netflix. She is headlining Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom,...
The comedy follows a renowned author, Alice Hughes (Streep), who embarks on a journey with old friends in the hopes of healing old wounds. Her nephew also comes along to accompany the ladies, until he finds himself involved with a young literary agent. As they are all stuck together on a cruise ship, tensions begin to rise, and Streep’s character is forced to confront the ways in which she may have hurt the ones she loves the most.
Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan round out the cast. The screenplay was written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
Streep previously starred in Soderbergh’s Panama Papers drama, “The Laundromat,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and debuted on Netflix. She is headlining Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
"I just don't know who you are anymore... Does anybody trust you?" Soderbergh's always up to something! HBO has released an official trailer for Let Them All Talk, a new film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It's yet another of his low key dialogue-driven dramas, much like High Flying Bird before this. The film tells the story of a celebrated author named Alice Hughes, played by Meryl Streep, who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent. Also starring Candice Bergen, Lucas Hedges, Gemma Chan, Saskia Larsen, and Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest. This looks pretty dang good! Soderbergh's recent films have been getting more and more interesting, with intricate but minimal stories and colorful characters. I'm looking forward to watching this one when it hits HBO Max.
- 11/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Verve Pictures to distribute completed films at the end of the year.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
The £200,000 short films initiative The Uncertain Kingdom, launched in December 2018, has finalised the 20 directors who will each receive £10,000 to finance a short film project.
Joining the previously announced Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) are the Oscar-winning Orlando Von Einsiedel (The White Helmets), International Emmy winner Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered) and Bifa winner Carol Salter (Almost Heaven).
Also on the roster are four former Screen Stars of Tomorrow: actor/writer/director Antonia Campbell-Hughes, writer/director Rubika Shah, and producers Helen Simmons and Yaw Basoah.
The full list of project teams can be found below.
- 5/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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