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Mank: Interviews. The Supporting Cast

Conversations at Home with MANK

SAG-AFTRA Foundation (YouTube)
January 15, 2021

Culture Pop: Arliss Howard, “Mank”

Steve Mason & Sue Kolinsky
January 9, 2021
Culture Pop Podcast

Culture Pop is a look at pop culture through the mind of Steve Mason, co-host of the #1-rated sports talk show in Los Angeles. Joined by stand-up comic Sue Kolinsky, they hear from their friends, plus comics, actors, filmmakers and celebrities talking about movies, television, technology, trends and completely random stuff.

Arliss Howard joins Steve and Sue to talk about his work with David Fincher in Mank playing Louis B. Mayer, with Stanley Kubrick in Full Metal Jacket, his directorial debut Big Bad Love, and the future of film theaters.

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How David Fincher Faked an Old Movie

Danny Boyd
December 13, 2020
CinemaStix (YouTube)

Today, let’s dive into the filmmaking mind of director David Fincher, and his 2020 film Mank.

David Fincher loves CGI and VFX, and that is on full display just as much in Mank (2020) as it is in all his past films. Only this time, for Mank, David Fincher had to use those tools, along with an old school cinematography and directing style, and smart editing, not only to create a convincing 1930’s Hollywood world, reminiscent of movies like Orson Welles‘ Citizen Kane, but also a convincing golden age Hollywood movie. Let’s see how David Fincher faked Mank.

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Awardsline: The Big Picture

David Fincher brings the big screen to us for his latest picture. With a cast led by Gary Oldman & Amanda Seyfried, is Mank a love letter to cinema’s golden age or an indictment of the shadier side of the movie biz?⁠

Joe Utichi
January 6, 2021
Awardsline (Deadline)

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The Burning Question That Drove David Fincher’s Decades-Long Journey To Make ‘Man

Joe Utichi
January 6, 2021
Deadline

David Fincher turns Netflix homes into 1940s movie houses with his latest opus, Mank, which explores the life and frustrations of Citizen Kane’s screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he works his way through the draft of what will become Orson Welles’ seminal directorial debut. With its title role imbued with Mankiewicz’s world-weary wit by Gary Oldman, and from a script first drafted more than 20 years ago by Fincher’s father Jack, who passed away in 2003, the film reignites the debate about the authorship of a film Welles might nearly have taken sole credit for. But it is about more than that besides; a love and hate letter to the machinations of the movie business, a remarkably timely examination of the façade of truth in the news media, and an intimate study of tortured souls beaten down by the world around them and their own insecurities. Joe Utichi meets Fincher, Oldman and Amanda Seyfried—who rehabilitates the image of actress and socialite Marion Davies—for a closer look.

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Front Row: David Fincher

John Wilson
December 17, 2020
Front Row (BBC, Radio 4)

Visionary director David Fincher on Mank, his new film about 1930s Hollywood, as seen through the eyes of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish Citizen Kane with Orson Welles.

Mank‘s screenplay is by Fincher’s father Jack Fincher, who started writing it in the early 1990s and died in 2003.

David Fincher’s other films, which have earned thirty Oscar nominations, include Fight Club, Se7en, The Zodiac, The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gone Girl, and Panic Room.

Fincher also talks about the future of cinema, streaming, and his early career as a director of iconic music videos such as Madonna‘s Vogue and George Michael‘s Freedom.

Mank is released on Netflix.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Timothy Prosser
Studio Manager: Emma Harth

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So, Why Does Bill Nye Play Upton Sinclair in Mank?

Nate Jones
December 16, 2020
Vulture

One of the big surprises of David Fincher’s Mank is that it turns out to be just as much about Upton Sinclair as it is about Herman Mankiewicz. In this version of Hollywood history, Mankiewicz was spurred to write Citizen Kane due to his guilt over the Hollywood dirty-tricks campaign that sank Sinclair’s 1934 campaign for governor of California. The Jungle author makes a brief appearance at a rally in Mank, at which point we get another of the film’s big surprises: Sinclair is played by none other than Bill Nye. Yes, the Science Guy. It’s unconventional casting, but it works. Stripped of his lab coat and bow tie, Nye is a little hard to place. He comes off as an avuncular, trustworthy orator; it’s only afterward when you realize, Wait, was that Bill Nye?

We naturally had some questions about how the whole thing came out. Luckily, Nye was happy to jump on a Zoom call and discuss the story behind his cameo.

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Mank: Interviews. Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman plays screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in Mank.

Gary Oldman, Mank, Christian Bale Helps grow a belly, when things go wrong, David Fincher

Margaret Gardiner (YouTube)
November 16, 2020

Hollywood’s Gary Oldman, Lily Collins talk ‘Mank’

Arab News (YouTube)
December 10, 2020

The Role of a Lifetime | Gary Oldman in Mank

Netflix Film Club (YouTube)
January 12, 2021

Actor Gary Oldman on his new film ‘Mank’ and the future of cinema | ITV News

Nina Nannar
January 21, 2021
ITV News

Conversation with Gary Oldman

Netflix Awards FYC
January 21, 2021

2020 Oscar Roundtable – George Clooney, Delroy Lindo and more discuss their films

Los Angeles Times (YouTube)
January 21, 2021

Netflix’s Mank: Gary Oldman in Conversation with EW’s Leah Greenblatt

92nd Street Y
January 27, 2021

Gary Oldman (‘Mank’) would have had bold advice for Herman J. Mankiewicz: ‘Get sober!’

Chris Beachum
January 28, 2021
Gold Derby

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Oscar winner Gary Oldman on ‘Mank’ and working with David Fincher

Popcorn with Peter Travers (YouTube)
January 27, 2021

Oldman’s boozy, blunt-talking ‘Mank’ gaining buzz

Reuters (YouTube)
January 30, 2021

Oldman on Fincher’s many takes: ‘I’m there to serve’

Associated Press (YouTube)
February 3, 2021

Gary Oldman Announces Mank | AFI Awards

American Film Institute (YouTube)
February 18, 2021

Actor Roundtable: Ben Affleck, Sacha Baron Cohen, Delroy Lindo, Gary Oldman, John David Washington and Steven Yeun on Their Liberating Roles

Scott Feinberg
February 24, 2021
The Hollywood Reporter

Gary Oldman on playing real characters & his next directorial project | Tea with BAFTA

BAFTA Guru (YouTube)
March 4, 2021

Stories That Matter with Douglas Urbanski and Gary Oldman | Mank | Netflix

Netflix Film Club (YouTube)
March 11, 2021

The Callback with Gary Oldman and Vanessa Kirby | Mank and Pieces of a Woman | Netflix

Netflix Film Club (YouTube)
March 17, 2021

Inside Total Film: Gary Oldman & Lily Collins for Mank + Viggo Mortensen & Lance Henriksen for Falling

Inside Total Film
December 3, 2020

Gary Oldman found ‘Mank’ a more challenging role than Sid Vicious or Dracula

Brian Truitt
November 19, 2020
USA Today

Gary Oldman On Playing ‘Mank’, Working With David Fincher And His Take On The Controversial Question Of Who Really Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’

Pete Hammond
December 4, 2020
Deadline

Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of ‘Mank’

Jake Coyle
December 7, 2020
Associated Press

Sir Paul McCartney, Miranda Hart and Gary Oldman

Zoe Ball
December 21, 2020
The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show

Gary Oldman: 1:08:26 min.

Gary Oldman on his ‘role of a lifetime’ in movie Mank & thinking he’s anonymous

January 19, 2021
The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (Virgin Radio)

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Present Company: Gary Oldman

Krista Smith
January 13, 2021
Present Company (Apple Podcasts)

Gary Oldman: Changemaker

Krista Smith
January 13, 2021
Netflix Queue

Awards Daily Podcast: Gary Oldman Is a ‘Mank’ For the Ages

Clarence Moye
January 29, 2021
Awards Daily

Interview. Gary Oldman Discusses Mankiewicz, Fincher, and ‘Mank’

Karen M. Peterson
January 28, 2021
We Live Entertainment

MovieMaker Podcast: Gary Oldman (Mank‪)‬

Tim Molloy
February 8, 2021
MovieMaker

The Sober Gary Oldman Talks About Playing a Drunk in ‘Mank’: ‘I Do Know About That’

Anne Thompson
February 11, 2021
IndieWire

Gary Oldman knows Mank and those drinking issues: ‘I used to sweat vodka’

Glenn Whipp
March 2, 2021
Los Angeles Times

Awards Chatter Podcast: Gary Oldman – ‘Mank’

Scott Feinberg
February 23, 2021
Awards Chatter (The Hollywood Reporter)

Mank: Interviews. Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton plays Sara Mankiewicz, Herman’s wife, in Mank.

Tuppence Middleton talks Mank and limericks with Gary Oldman I Netflix Interview

Brief Take (YouTube)
December 4, 2020

Back To One: Tuppence Middleton

Back To One (Filmmaker Magazine) (Apple Podcasts)
December 8, 2020

How Mank director David Fincher found his perfect Orson Welles

Maureen Lee Lenker
December 05, 2020
Entertainment Weekly

Few figures from Hollywood’s Golden Age loom as large as Orson Welles.

The mercurial wunderkind first made a name for himself with his voice, in his Mercury Theater‘s Shakespeare productions and his iconic radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Then he took Hollywood by storm as a creative force, acting, directing, and producing his own work, including his most famous film, Citizen Kane, which is central to David Fincher‘s new movie Mank.

As Welles aged, he became larger than life, both in his increasing girth and his tempestuous approach to filmmaking, a realm in which he was often at odds with studio brass and even himself (see: the long-unfinished The Other Side of the Wind).

How then do you find the right person to portray such a towering figure? It’s been done before several times, by the likes of Vincent D’Onofrio, Angus MacFadyen, and even Jack Black.

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Tom Burke on Orson Welles

Antonia Quirke
December 3, 2020
The Film Programme (BBC)

Actor Tom Burke reveals how he perfected the voice of Orson Welles for his new film, Mank, and Rob Savage explains how he made lockdown horror movie Host.

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