Johnny Flynn on One Life, the importance of telling this story & working with Helena Bonham Carter

Johnny Flynn is interviewed for One Life. Directed by James Hawes, Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn both play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his extraordinary life. Helena Bonham-Carter plays Winton’s mother, Babi. The cast also includes Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and Alex Sharp.
Johnny Flynn on One Life, the importance of telling this story & working with Helena Bonham Carter
Johnny Flynn discusses portraying a real-life character, the significance of telling the story, and collaborating with Helena Bonham Carter in a film about welcoming refugees amid international events
0:21: 🎥 Johnny discusses his portrayal of a real-life character in a movie and the research involved.
* 0:21: Johnny emphasizes the duty to honour a real person when portraying them in a film.
* 0:39: He mentions the limited information available about the character he played.
* 0:52: Johnny describes the process of using imagination and learning details to understand the character's experience in the 1930s.
* 1:07: He talks about visiting real places related to the character's life in Prague.
* 1:25: Johnny mentions meeting some of the character's family members, including his daughter who passed away before filming.
2:17: 🎥 The video discusses the release of a film amidst international events and the importance of welcoming refugees.
* 2:17: The importance of welcoming refugees and rescuing people suffering from international wars
* 2:49: The parallels drawn between current events and the rise of fascism in the 1930s in Europe
* 3:21: The difficulties in getting children from other countries to Britain during the 1930s
3:47: 🎬 The interview discusses the experience of working with Helena Bonham Carter and other talented actors on set.
* 3:47: Working with Helena Bonham Carter
* 4:01: Working with Romola Garai and Alex Sharp
* 4:24: Filming in real buildings and emotional scenes
* 4:49: Imagining the emotional impact of the scenes
* 4:58: Compliments on the performance
Linda Marric asks the questions.
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children - now adults - that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
One Life will be released on the 1st of January, 2024.
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[@thisisjuliacosta]

Johnny is such a great actor, he truly merges with the character, gets almost unrecognizable

[@terrymann1341]

An incredible film. I saw it yesterday and it moved me so much, really touched my heart. Maybe our current government should see this film and think long and hard about what they are doing right now. This has to be the film of the year, well deserving of BAFTA's and an Oscar nomination or three, and we're only a week into 2024...

[@annettemarshall4895]

He's a character actor first last and always

[@Andrew-Antioch-Kim]

"Beast" is how I first discovered Johnny.

[@neelpatel3844]

Incredible film. It’s worth remembering how Jew hatred has gone away. It’s sad that the actor thinks the same is happening now by commenting on the home secretary’s stance and comparing it to what happened with Jewish refugees. This story was about bringing over children whereas what we’re seeing now is young men without women and children who come for economic reasons. Many come from a culture that would support the genocide of Jews….The UK needs to wake up, the good decent, as they said in the movie ‘ordinary’ British are being taken advantage of. As someone who came legally as an immigrant and experienced the decency of the British public it pains to see this happen. Priti Patel’s parents came as genuine refugees from Uganda, that’s why she wishes to protect this country but the media and press paint her as a villain and distort facts.