Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, Sophie Hyde & Aud Mason-Hyde on the Origins of the Film Name 'Jimpa' | THR Studio at Park City - video Dailymotion

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At THR's studio in Park City, 'Jimpa' director Sophie Hyde and stars Olivia Colman, John Lithgow and Aud Mason-Hyde discuss the fun they've had promoting their film, the origins of the movie name and more. Plus, John Lithgow reacts to his Oscars nomination and Olivia Colman shares the text she sent to Cynthia Erivo.

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00:00No actor is good all the time, and I can't stand watching myself be bad, but I love watching myself in Jimpa.

00:08Jimpa and Third Rock from the Sun are my favorite thing. I think I'm absolutely hilarious in Third Rock from the Sun.

00:19I guess your last Sundance was remote.

00:22It was, yeah. I've been coming since, I've come a few times before,

00:27but yeah, the last one, which was a great festival for us, but we weren't here.

00:32So it's amazing being back. I love it so much.

00:36It's just so nice being back in the snow, seeing everybody.

00:39The idea that everyone's actually sitting there watching the films together still feels a bit of a novelty.

00:45We're having a great time, I think, anyway.

00:48Having a great time.

00:50It's just like, it's big and beautiful and hectic, but amazing.

00:54Yeah. We're just all having such a good time.

00:58Yeah.

00:59Yeah, but you've been watching Sundance from afar.

01:01For so long.

01:03Yeah, I've watched my parents come to Sundance so many times,

01:06and it's pretty spectacular to be here and to be able to be in the snow in Park City

01:11and going to screenings, and I'm in the film.

01:16It's so special.

01:18It's a thing of myth and legend for me.

01:20How did you find watching myself on screen?

01:22Well, I've watched it five times now.

01:26Uncomfortable for the first two, and then OK on the third watch,

01:31terrible on the fourth watch, and then I loved it on the fifth.

01:34So good overall.

01:36I've got friends who won't watch themselves, and I don't mind.

01:40No, I think like all humans, I go, ooh, I wish I hadn't done that with my chin.

01:46But also, I don't think there's room for, from an actor point of view,

01:51you're not meant to have vanity on screen.

01:54You just can't help watch yourself and go, oh, yeah.

01:57Did it feel, because for those of us who watch you,

02:00this felt like a different version of you, obviously.

02:03Did it feel like you watching yourself and Jimpa,

02:06did you recognize, like, the different side of yourself that you were showing them?

02:11Well, I've grown older than I realized.

02:15Very interesting, because I've recently done a play in London,

02:19and a good friend, my oldest friend, came to see it and said,

02:23you know, you do something now and then

02:25where you suddenly look so old.

02:31And I realized, well...

02:31He's a good friend?

02:32He's a really good friend.

02:34No, he thought it was, how do you do that?

02:36It was a kind of magical acting.

02:39And I think that, I mean, I'm 79 years old,

02:41and I think I've retained my youth mainly by acting.

02:47But it was very interesting to see Jimpa,

02:50because I saw a very different version of myself.

02:53And a lot of it had to do with, in the course of the film,

02:56you see him gradually decline.

03:00And I sort of loved tracking that.

03:04Just purely like an audience member, not watching myself act.

03:08I began to see Jim and not me.

03:12And I just found it just terribly moving.

03:16It sounds egotistical to say that.

03:18I'm just talking about the way I responded to it as a film.

03:21So much of it had to do with acting with Collie and with Odd

03:28and all these marvellous, the wonderful aunties in the film.

03:34It's just...

03:35And this is a great tribute to Sophie.

03:37You just saw all these relationships come to life

03:41in such an emotionally authentic way.

03:44Is that it, didn't it, ma'am?

03:46Collie, yes.

03:47Yeah, yeah, sorry.

03:48In case you're going, I didn't know there was a Collie in the...

03:50Are we supposed to keep that secret?

03:51Oh, it's too late now, John.

03:53Said it all day.

03:54Oh, and where were we yesterday morning at 6.30 a.m., not in time, when they announced?

04:03Fast asleep, fast asleep.

04:06I barely have a dog in that race.

04:09I love everybody involved in Conclave.

04:12I literally had forgotten it was Oscar warning.

04:15Yeah, when I turned my phone on, my friends in England were going,

04:18Cynthia!

04:19And I was texting Cynthia going...

04:23Sorry.

04:25Is the nickname Jimpa something that...

04:27Is that fictional or is that...

04:30No, that was what my dad decided he wanted to be called by Odd.

04:35Jimpa, like Grandpa.

04:37Yeah.

04:38He didn't want to be...

04:38He didn't want to sound too old.

04:40So he thought he didn't want to be Grandpa, he wanted to be Jimpa.

04:43Um, and that's what we called forever.

04:46And you called him it, even though he wasn't your Grandpa.

04:48I always called him Jimpa from that point on.

04:50Yeah.

04:51Yeah.

04:52Did anyone else call their grandparents something not for my Grandpa?

04:57My brother, who's older than me, they said,

04:59we need to differentiate between the grandparents, so what do you think?

05:03And he went, old nana, young nana?

05:06Nope, nope, nope, that won't, nope.

05:08And so they suggested, um, one nana had a dog called Sooty,

05:14and so they went Sooty nana, and old nana, uh, nana, oh, go on.

05:21A bit like old nana, yeah, Sooty nana.

05:24Three of my four grandparents were gone by the time I was cognizant.

05:30I had my one Grammy.

05:32And she, sadly, I've been nominated four times, but I've never won a Grammy.

05:37But I had a Grammy grandma.

05:39What's one suggestion for what Hollywood needs to be doing more of, or less of?

05:43Like, what comes from the clips that comes your mind as?

05:47Ooh, that's a big question.

05:49It's such a hard moment to answer that, isn't it?

05:51Because we just watched the fires, and that was so impactful on the whole film community

05:57that I'm a bit like, whoa, I don't really want to say anything they should be doing.

06:00I mean, making stories, like telling independent stories, telling stories about humans,

06:06the things that Hollywood has always done really well, you know,

06:10it would be really nice to think that that's still possible and continues to be possible.

06:15I'm in this marvelous film conclave, and one thing that people are constantly saying about it

06:24is it's like the way movies used to be.

06:26And I think it's like the way I responded to Man for All Seasons when I was, like, 16 years old.

06:37It's true.

06:38I would love to think that that kind of storytelling comes back.

06:43Just great writing that turns into great movies.

Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, Sophie Hyde & Aud Mason-Hyde on the Origins of the Film Name 'Jimpa' | THR Studio at Park City

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