He seems incredibly precise, is he?

You have to surrender to it, but it does build tension as well, which is what I think he wants in the film. It’s fun because it’s a new exercise and I think it’s fun working with a director who really knows what they want and even if it is slightly annoying or difficult I really like it when they’re sure.

There’s a lot of directors who you work with who want to shoot things 20 different ways, and you say ‘wait a second, what am I doing here?’, so it’s nice to have someone who’s that confident.

You’ve worked with some great directors in recent times David Lynch, Peter Jackson, David Cronenberg among them is it possible to compare and contrast?

They’re all so different, I feel like the choices I’ve made have been very much revolving the director a lot of the time.

I feel like film is a director’s medium a lot of the time and therefore if the director is right you feel safe automatically, and you trust them. And they’re all mad in their own little way, in a genius way. That’s what I love about the ones that I’ve worked with.

Do you think becoming a mum will change the sort of roles you do?

I’m not going to suddenly start doing Disney movies but in the years to come I might want to do something to impress him and his friends.

But I think I’ll always be interested in the stuff that I do, my taste is my taste, but thing people have asked me about Funny Games is if I’d have felt differently about doing it. The answer is probably yes.

One of your co-stars describes the action of Tim Roth’s character, George, as cowardly. Do you agree with that view?

It was hard for Tim, so hard. He had major issues, and I think that’s what was helping him get wound up. We all did, we all had to get ourselves in that horrible place.

That’s what was so hard to Tim, being a Dad. His job is to protect his family. But that’s the thing, when Michael wrote it he put himself in that position of ‘what would I do?’.

I think we all think ‘I would have done this or that,’ but the truth is you really don’t know.

Funny Games is released 4th April.

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