“Mouse”, interview with actresses Katherine Mallen-Kupferer and Sophie Okonedo

From the directors of “Ghostlight”, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, “Mouse” is  premiering at the 76th Berlinale in the Panorama section. The film is a moving coming-of-age story set in 2002 Arkansas, it is written by O’Sullivan as it is loosely based on her memories of being a high school teenager in her hometown of North Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 2000s. It stars Katherine Mallen-Kupferer, who previously appeared in the cast of “Ghostlight”, as seventeen year’s old high school senior Minnie and Academy Award nominee and Tony Winner Sophie Okonedo as the mother of Minnie’s best friend, Callie. Katherine Mallen-Kupferer “Ghostlight” has become pivotal to the film Mouse as it marks the filmmakers’ second collaboration with Chicago-based actors Tara Mallen and Katherine Mallen Kupferer, who played mother and daughter in “Ghostlight” and do so again in Mouse. Katherine Mallen Kupferer confesses that, while her character in “Ghostlight” was and felt very similar to her, the one from “Mouse”, Minnie, was very different so she actually had to really “act” and therefore improving her acting technique. Sophie Okonedo Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo’s name was in Alex’s Thompson wishlist among the actors he would have liked to work with someday so with “Mouse” finally in the works, the two directors tried to make their dream come true and offered Okonedo the part of Helen, Callie’s mum. They sent her agent the screenplay of the film, along with a letter. What came afterwards, defined the film’s destiny: she said yes immediately. “It was this beautiful, layered story about ordinary people going through stuff that a lot of us go through. The characters felt like real people” she said. The post “Mouse”, interview with actresses Katherine Mallen-Kupferer and Sophie Okonedo appeared first on Fred Film Radio.