Martin McDonagh would like to reunite with Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken for his next film

The director of 3 Billboards loves to hire the same actors from one film to another.

In March, Martin McDonagh participated in the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The opportunity to look back on his career with the channel RTHKwho is publishing his video interview this week, to watch here in English.

Assuring to be “someone happy and lucky”even if he has a particular taste for sad films, the director of 3 Billboards and Banshees of Inisherin explain “always look for fun, offbeat elements” in everyday life situations. What offers his films, whether dramas, thrillers and/or comedies (we also owe him Good kisses from Bruges Or Seven Psychopaths), their very particular tone.

During the discussion, he also confides his pleasure of finding the same actors from one film to another, as well as his surprise about Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, who never returned together between Brugge and the Banshees. “It’s like there hasn’t been all that time between the two films, and that’s a bit of a ‘My’ team, he said, laughing. They are both brilliant, and truly friends in life… I won’t let 14 years pass to bring them together again!”

In this regard, two years after being acclaimed for his story of friendship which ends on an Irish island, brilliantly carried by this duo of Irish actors, what are the director’s projects?

“You know, I always think about what I would leave behind…, he answers. I hope that The Banshees… will not be my last film. There are lots of actors that I would like to find, for example Sam Rockwell And Christopher Walken. I would love to make a film with them again. Maybe I would also develop the theme of the island? Now I love setting my plots on an island. Not necessarily Ireland, but a new island which would once again be a character in its own right in our history. I think I just gave you a scoop? This is what I would like to do in my next project.”

In 2012, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken already shared the poster of Seven Psychopathsthen the first found the 54-year-old filmmaker to 3 Billboards, in an unforgettable supporting role which earned him an Oscar. He also directed Walken on stage in A Behanding in Spokane, performed on Broadway in 2010.

Together again on screen, could the two actors finally have a dance scene common? It is a passion that they share, each having multiplied memorable choreographies on screen during their career…