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Steve McQueen On Why The Industry “Wasn’t Ready” For ‘Widows’ And Meeting Hollywood Execs After Making ‘Hunger’: “They Thought I Was White” — LFF
The London Film Festival runs until October 25.
McQueen told the crowd in London that 12 Years A Slave had been the result of an idea that he had after first touring the Hollywood studios following the success of his debut feature Hunger and taking what he described as awkward meetings with execs. After 12 Years A Slave, McQueen made Widows with Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, and Colin Farrell. Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the film follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside.
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