Brooklyn“When we shot the scene on the deck of a boat, near the end of the film, [my character] Eilis has gone full circle; she has experienced homesickness, grief, love, success, heartbreak, and has come out the other side,” Ronan says of the mid-century story of an Irish immigrant ... More

Black Mass“I’m a fan of movies in which it’s hard to tell who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist, and therefore who you empathize with or not. As an actor, I look for those different shades,” Edgerton, who plays John Connolly, a crooked federal agent working against—and sometimes ... More

The Hateful Eight“I’ve never bought into the notion of men being from Mars and women being from Venus, but when you are the only woman on a set, you see that men are really different,” Leigh says of her time filming Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. “But I loved ... More

Son of Saul“The most essential moment for me was when I first read the writings of the crematorium workers. These texts are not well-known, but they give an incredible opportunity for the reader to be transported to that present,” the director of the film—about a man in a concentration ... More

Trumbo“There were a lot of challenges to making Trumbo, but not one of them was insurmountable,” Cranston says of the film that has him playing blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. “With the amount of research and reading that you do, slowly it starts to seep into your psyche—and there is ... More

Sicario“Movies are very fickle. I’ve done many where I think, ‘Oh that’s going to be good,’ and it isn’t. With this one, my expectations were up in the air,” Del Toro says of Sicario, a thriller following U.S. agents beyond the Mexican border. “But across the board everybody brought their ... More

Beasts of No Nation“There was a moment when we hadn’t started shooting yet and I walked onto set. The extras hadn’t seen my army-fatigue costume, but when I came out and I walked through maybe 300 people, without any sort of prompt they just started saluting,” says Elba, who ... More

Carol“It felt real for me once we landed in Cincinnati. I had never been there and in a way we could have never achieved what we did in the film in New York,” the actress says of the 1950s story of secretive love. “The times that I’ve been filmed in ... More

Carol“I remember very clearly the day when we shot the scene when Carol and Therese first have lunch together. It was such an extraordinary scene, and we got to do it in these long takes. It was our first real back and forth scene with dialogue,” says Mara, who plays ... More

Carol“At the premiere in Cannes, we were nervous, but that really was an amazing night. I felt like I was in a fairytale,” the director recalls. “There was a lot of advance word of mouth on Carol, so I felt anxious about the film being looked at and all of ... More