During the film’s post-screening Q&A at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Boyle and the cast fielded questions from the audience about a few topics, including the movie’s use of AI. Boyle previously copped to using “about thirty seconds” of AI at the Telluride film Festival “where we animate a couple of old photographs.”
“The why of it… is a hugely complicated , which I don’t think we’ll need to go into here,” he offered. “But we will need to go into it, all of us.” With that, the moderator ended the Q&A.
Boyle was joined onstage by O’Connell and Pearce who, earlier in the chat, dished on how they painted humanizing portraits of two larger-than-life figures who’ve wreaked quite a bit of chaos on the world. Boyle said he identified with the Yorkshire-raised Lamb because, as a native of Lancashire, he was also “an outsider coming to London.”
Pearce, meanwhile, said that when he began researching Murdoch, he didn’t necessarily see the “monster” with the “mystique” that so many people paint him as, but someone timid and callow.
“It started, really, with looking at some footage of Murdoch from the mid-‘60s onward,” Pearce explained of his fellow Aussie. “When I looked at footage of him and interviews of him where they would catch him at Sydney Airport or Melbourne Airport… he always looked awkward, he always looked shy, he always looked very humble… and not the image we all have of this person we think we now know given what we’ve seen in the last twenty, thirty or forty years.”
