SPECIAL EDITION OF KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER 9 8/7 2017 FREE INSIDE Vorlíček is good at fairytales (and more) English Section, page 2 The Grand Jury, Critics’ and Audience Awards English Section, page 3 Straight Outta Estonia English Section, page 4 Photo: Jan Handrejch This actor is willing to risk broken bones for work but prefers to dig deep for emotion. THERE TO SERVE THE STORY JEREMY RENNER SEEKS OUT FILMS THAT CHALLENGE HIM AND FORCE HIM TO GROW Jeremy Renner’s performance in Wind I have no regrets. I made a conscious that movie was so big with so many much. The Marvel universe is pretty fun Would you shoot another film in the River, screening at KVIFF to coincide decision when I was younger to have characters and so many things going on. to watch. Middle East as you did in The Hurt with the American actor receiving the music be a pure expression of art or of You can’t really understand from the Locker? President’s Prize, signifies a return to the feelings. I didn’t want it to be a job. So script what the hell you’re going to be What’s the most critical element for For me the answer is actually no and it kind of slow-burn character that won I chose theater, and movies and televi- doing. You figure out your character and you in choosing to take on a role? has nothing to do with the Middle East. him an Oscar nomination for Kathryn sion. I figured I could to that as a job and your little piece in this puzzle, then the The director is one of the most impor- I can’t shoot that far from my child. That Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker in 2008. also it was something I was drawn to as VFX take over and principle photogra- tant things. You know, Taylor Sheridan is was a different time in my life. So Although Renner has lately been cast in a job because as an actor, with psychol- phy and all the editing and the effects a first-time director but I knew him as I shoot pretty much within the continent, numerous roles in the action franchises ogy and human behavior and things like and creating the bad guy, the aliens, the a writer and I got to know him as a man in America. But I did enjoy my time over Mission Impossible and Avengers, it’s as that, it would help me as a man as well backdrop. It might be a green screen and he wrote Sicario. It’s just sort of there. I got to learn a lot as an actor and clear as ever why his breakthrough came as identifying and expressing feelings. where I’m fighting a guy in a leotard but a like-mindedness. He’s a problem as a man. from his indie film work. Yesterday, he If I was singing for a job all I would on the real screen it turns out to be solver. There are certain qualities in a di- spoke at a press conference and ad- be doing is just singing and being tired a quite fantastic-looking piece of cine- rector that I look for, a certain mentality. Was the chance to work with dressed – among other things – his in- from being on the road, being sick of the ma. There’s no ego when it comes to me Elizabeth Olsen, who plays the FBI jury. songs and singing them over and over. making a film. I don’t care if I’m the lead agent in Wind River, part of the appeal Who knows? But I really enjoy the Is it difficult to fill in in your mind or not I’m just there to help serve the sto- for you? What actually happened to your choices I’ve made and I feel just blessed what the scene is going to look like to ry and let the director tell that story. Well, yeah! I got to know her pretty arms? You had some people worried that I have the opportunity to express audiences when all the technicians are well on two of the Avengers movies. It in those pictures here wearing your myself in many different forms. done? What do directors you admire do to was a great opportunity to work with arm and wrist braces. A filming acci- I’m always surprised when it comes to help you achieve the performance you a friend in a different capacity. There dent? How is it as an actor in big-budget films like Avengers and the universe of want and to reach such emotional was a lot of shorthand we had because I broke my arms on a stunt while we action films in which you have to in- what comes out. It’s actually the only depth? we knew each other well and love each were shooting. Something broke, teract with creatures or settings that time I’ve really watched a movie that Having so many different takes and other. She was one of the main reasons I broke. So it goes. It’s part of the job. aren’t really there during shooting? I’ve done to see how it actually turns out. different levels of emotional output and why I wanted to do that. z There’s a lot of visual effects. VFX be- When it comes to movies like Wind withholding, different choices. You can’t Was there a time when you planned comes a huge part of filmmaking nowa- River it’s very practical so you actually be dumb and direct a movie. It requires on being a musician rather than an ac- days because it’s also done so well. I re- understand what you see is what I see. a lot of skill sets. That’s why I’m not (Recorded from press conference and tor? member watching the first Avengers and So I try not to watch those things too a director. Because I’m an idiot. written by Will Tizard.) SEE YOU THERE REPLAY JIŘÍ BARTOŠKA, KVIFF PRESIDENT NOTHING FREAKY ABOUT THAT Although a lot of you have probably already seen it, I will not miss this year’s Trudie Styler, an English actor, director, producer and the closing ceremony film, Arrival. This wife of Sting, presented the screening of her debut film Freak mysterious science-fiction movie is di- Show in the Karlovy Vary Theater yesterday afternoon. She rected by Denis Villeneuve and stars said the reason she made the movie was her desire to work on Jeremy Renner, who is in Karlovy Vary substantive stories that have “real missions in mind.” And her mission with is essential and relevant. to receive the President’s Award tonight. Freak Show In the film, Alex Lawther plays a transplanted gay teen Jeremy is an actor with a highly diverse who decides to run for “homecoming queen,” the most fab- filmography that includes both audience ulous person in the whole school. This idea doesn’t go down favorites as well as critically acclaimed so well in the American South. films. His latest film, Wind River, won Bullying, she said, is still a huge problem and it’s not get- Photo: KVIFF the Prize for Best Direction in the Un ting any better. Styler, like her main character, was also bullied as a child. Certain Regard section at this year’s “Teenage suicide numbers are escalating. I was very tak- Cannes Film Festival, and I’m excited en with the story. I have personal memories of being bullied,” pack,” she said. “Whilst it’s okay to be extraordinary when that he was able to present it at Karlovy Hospodářské noviny she said, adding she had an accident when she was small, had you get to university – indeed, you’re extolled for being Vary in person. (IR) a lot of scars on her face and looked very different than oth- a think-out-of-the-box person – when you’re in middle er kids. school, kindergarten, high school, you want to be in the Wind River screens today at 7pm in Pavel Beneš, “Children don’t accept children if you look different or feel pack.” Národní dům Cinema. z different. And your feeling different exposes yourself to the In other words, fertile ground for bullies. z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Saturday, July 8, 2017 FAIRYTALES FOR EVERYONE THE LEGENDARY CZECH DIRECTOR WILL RECEIVE THE KVIFF PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO CZECH FILM IN CLOSING CEREMONY TONIGHT Photo: KVIFF Olga Schoberová was unforgettable in Who Wants to Kill Jessie? I note that Stuart Hample behind the Iron Curtain could wound up as the name of give such a feminist sensibility a character in your body swap to so familiar a fairytale. comedy, You Are a Widow, Sir! I am not a fan of feminism; But the remake didn’t go I didn’t really mean it like that. ahead – what happened? But I did change it from the orig- The Russian tanks came. inal version. I didn’t want her to William Snyder was in Prague be this poor wretch, I didn’t want when the Russian occupation oc- her to be buried in ashes. It was curred...He had raised the funds František Pavlíček, who was an already. But then he got unsure. excellent theatre maker and He called the American Embassy screenwriter, who made her so and said “Send me a diplomatic self-assured. If you remember, the Photo: KVIFF car.