Breaking Baz: Filmmaker Sophie Hyde Says It Wasn’t Easy Casting Olivia Colman To Play Her In Hot Sundance Movie ‘Jimpa’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays, Animals, Good Luck to You Leo Grand) says casting “a version of yourself” is not an easy task. “It’s very tricky to do,” says Hyde, director of Jimpa, which is premiering today at Park City’s Eccles.
It’s a film that sublimely explores what constitutes the makeup of family in our era. From the get-go, though, Hyde knew that Oscar-winning Olivia Colman would be perfect to play her, or rather a fictionalized version of herself called Hannah.
Like Hyde, Hannah’s a married film artist from Adelaide, the mother of a transgender, nonbinary teenager and the daughter of a father who came out gay when she was a child.
Along with Colman as Hannah, Jimpa also stars Hyde and partner, editor and producer Bryan Mason’s 19-year-old offspring Aud Mason-Hyde playing Hannah’s teenage child Frances and John Lithgow as their grandfather Jim, the lively, provocative title character.
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