Joe Alwyn: ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ is a tender, moving and different medieval film – Times of India


‘Catherine Called Birdy’ the upcoming Lena Dunham directorial based on a novel by Karen Cushman, is set to bring together Bella Ramsay, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn and Billie Piper.

Andrew, who plays the role of Lord Rollo, revealed why he didn’t read the book and he insists that it “wasn’t just out of laziness.” Scott explained, “There’s a reason why I didn’t read the book. You know your job is to sort of interpret Lena’s version of the story and to look at the script, we wanted to make the character just a little bit different from the book. The book’s Lord Rollo is more Macho, the sword-yielding, sort of brutish, which I’m not. So we just wanted to make him a little bit more real. To show that he is also suffering a bit in medieval society.”

Joe Alwyn also shared his thoughts about the film and said, “There were multiple reasons why I agreed to do the film. The first was quite obviously Lena, and then the script. It was just such a fun, sort of tender, moving and different kind of story, in a different kind of telling for a medieval film.”

Speaking about his director, he added, “Lena’s such a genius and such a force and has such a singular voice. Those things combined were really exciting for me. I read the script and the characters throughout were so wonderful and interesting, and the cast that she was assembling was brilliant, so it was quite an easy thing to say yes to.”

Dunham’s personal connection to the story of Birdy reflects in the beauty of the screenplay. Singing praises for her talent, actors Andrew gushed, “The script was really tight at the beginning, but Lena is brilliant. Because she is very open to everyone bringing something new to the table, so it’s amazing as that makes it a little less medieval in tone.”

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