Callum Turner

“Again, I'm so sorry, my French is awful. Au Hasard Balthazar. I'm so sorry for anyone who speaks French and they had to listen to that. But this is about a donkey and it just follows this donkey, and you really just fall in love with the journey and you and you want to look after the donkey. It's one of the most extraordinary movies I've ever seen.”

“Five Easy Pieces, man. This is my favorite film. I've got about five pictures of Jack Nicholson in my house. It's it's about a guy that he's on the run from himself, and it's two completely different contrasting human beings when he goes home. So you should watch that if you haven't watched that.”

“Oh yeah, Mean Streets. This is the movie that made me want to be an actor. I'm not even joking. That improvised scene where he's like, "I went and bought this tie," and he's Harvey Keitel is trying to get the money from De Niro, I watched that over and over. I still watch that. And the music and the atmosphere and the energy and everything, this is pure, this one.”

“If you haven't seen any Dardenne brother movies, which I'm sure you have, The Kid with a Bike. I watched that in the cinema when it came out and I was doing my first ever professional job, and I watched that in Manchester in England, and I just thought, wow, that's what I want to do. So if you're watching, guys, can you hire me? I'd love I'd love to work with you.”

“Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Cranes Are Flying. I'd seen I Am Cuba and Letter Never Sent, and then my friend Mustafa the Poet, shout out to you, bro, recommended this to me. So this is going in for you and for me. It was part of my research, too, for Masters of the Air because I just watched all these all these war movies and Russian war movies and the one here, The Ascent.”

“Oh, and Come and See. Yeah, holy... This is something. This is this is probably the craziest movie I've ever seen in my life. What a knockout.”

“And Naked, Mike Leigh's Naked, David Thewlis. And I worked with him on my first professional, well, not my first film, my first professional, my first film, and obviously I was just like, "Tell me all about Naked." He said he had that overcoat and was running around Soho for about eight months before they even started filming. But there's a speech about the universe and God and it's mind-blowing, and I think they did something like 57 takes. I just made 57 up, it was a lot.”

“Wow. The Leopard. Probably the best movie I've ever seen in my life. And they dubbed, they dubbed everyone. I thought Burt could speak Italian, I thought Alain Delon could speak Italian. They can't, they just dubbed them. I was so blown away by that when I just started learning Italian. But just the pacing and the story, the surrender of the old guard for the new guard to the three colors, it's really something else.”

“La strada I want to take because I spoke to James Gray for like three hours on the phone not so long ago and I hadn't seen that movie, and it's his favorite movie, La strada. So thank you, James. I'm going to read I'm going to I'm going to read this, apparently it's a good book.”

“I would love to pick this one here because I've heard amazing things about Nothing but a Man, and yeah, I'd love to watch it.”

“I actually haven't dived in heavily to Agnès Varda. I changed the errors of my ways and I watched Cléo from 5 to 7. Oh my god, it's like every frame is a is a painting. Just such a beautiful, beautiful movie. And then I watched Vagabond and Le Bonheur. I don't know if my French is any good, but the movies are fantastic. I mean, look at that, even that is so beautiful.”