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“Finding certain roles is bit like falling in love, when you read something and you get a clutch in your stomach then you know you absolutely have to do it. And that doesn’t happen very often, but I can tell you categorically, I had to make this film”.

“I suppose when you break it down it was the nostalgia and the sweetness that attracted me to it. It’s so bittersweet and for me, those are always the best films, they’re my favourite films – ones that have the grace of that bittersweet moment”.

“There’s something about this story that’s universal. But I already got asked in Toronto whether we were making Glee, which is so annoying! The kids are really playing the instruments and the music is an organic part of everything that we’re doing here and that’s the other part that I loved. I’ve been waiting for a really long time to find a musical project, that had meaning and wasn’t a sort of fabrication. So this was definitely it, on a lot of levels”.

“You’ve got to love a women who’s at a crossroads but who has had to go back to find her way forward and that’s really where Viv my character is in the film. She’s gone back to the town she grew up in, probably the school that she went to, having walked away from something far more glamorous, but she needs to do that to find who she is. It’s really interesting that she finds her meaning through teaching. Something clicks into place through whatever ignites and happens between her and these children, herself and the music. There’s something very liberating about that, because it all sounds so wildly clichéd but you know, music really does set you free if you let it”.

“Viv is longing to go back to that place where Davy is beginning but she actually discovers that you can’t go back, you must go forward. Then she sees Davy challenging himself and moving forward, he’s setting out and jumping off and out and into his life, and Viv realizes it doesn’t matter that she’s forty, she has to do the same. She has to strike out and that we all have to do that. Age really isn’t an excuse, it’s just the way you look at it, it’s always about your perception”.

“When you board a project like this, you jump on board the director/writer’s passion and energy. There’s a reason they cast you, because you joined the dots of the outline that they had and suddenly you can see that in their direction, and in their eyes. It’s so amazing to breathe life into something that has been someone’s idea for such a long time. Marc is so vivid and clear about the story that he’s telling and it’s just the happiest set”.

Minnie Driver as Viv in Hunky Dory