James Norton wearing glasses with an image of Nowhere Special in the background
The Big Picture Nowhere Special is undoubtedly one of the saddest movies that American audiences will watch this year now that it's finally made the jump across the pond after releasing in the United Kingdom back in 2021. The tight, 96-minute film from writer-director Uberto Pasolini follows John , a single father facing the grim realities of his terminal illness, which includes finding a suitable adoptive home for his 4-year-old son, Michael .
JAMES NORTON: That’s such a good question. Sorry, I just love the idea that your cousin is now, like, just deep into reincarnation at that moment. He’s now like, “Where’s Grandpa?”NORTON: Exactly. I mean, my main experience is obviously the movie, and it's true, so much of this film was about connecting with Daniel the actor. The reason why it worked so well, and I'm so proud of it is because it was a very, very real thing we were going through every single day.
NORTON: It could have been a disaster, and we were fully expecting it to be much, much more challenging than it was. I have worked with kids quite a lot now. I'm in that particular age bracket where all I play are dads of young, young children, and it's lovely. It can go one of two ways.
I think it was probably because, yeah, we had a chemistry read which was basically just me playing, but there was something there. He just trusted me. As I say, he looked me in the eye, and he was present with me. He wasn't overwhelmed by this weird situation he was in, being introduced to these old people who were asking him to pretend to be someone else. He didn't really get fazed.
James Norton's Next Project Has Been 5 Years in the Making Close It's a very beautiful film. I did want to ask about a couple of other projects. You mentioned one that I'm already really interested in. My background is actually in history, so King and Conqueror is on the top of my list for things that I need to see. How has that been filming that? Because that's like a deep period piece, kind of outside of some of the other stuff that you've done.
NORTON: So it's the third project we've actually produced. We've made a movie called Rogue Agent, and we've had a TV show which we shot before Christmas called Playing Nice, which is also coming out later this year, or the next year. We don’t exactly know when — probably this year. So, it's one of the many projects which we have on our slate.
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