‘Nocturnal Animals’ Cast Reveals Tom Ford’s ‘Obsession With Quality’ (Video)
Amy Adams, Jake Gyllnehaal, Aaron Taylor Johnson discuss their meticulous director
Matt Donnelly | December 19, 2016 @ 4:06 PM
Last Updated: December 19, 2016 @ 4:09 PM
Living in regret and exacting revenge requires a certain devotion — and Tom Ford pulls off both in his second feature film “Nocturnal Animals.”
The relationship drama, with elements of a thriller and the high-flying style the designer-turned-director is known for, is executed with a painstaking attention to detail according to Ford’s starry cast.
Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ellie Bamber, Laura Linney and Isla Fisher all chime in on Ford’s process in a behind-the-scenes interview exclusive to TheWrap.
“His attention to detail, his obsession with a certain type of quality, is unmatched,” said Gyllenhaal.
“Nocturnal Animals,” which recently landed Ford Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for the forthcoming Golden Globe Awards, is currently in theaters.
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Andrea Riseborough The terribly pedigreed English actress appears briefly in the film’s trailer, but not long enough to sell you on the incredible “Auntie Mame” vibe she brings as the eccentric wife of an openly gay artist (Michael Sheen).
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Karl Glusman This is Tom Ford we're talking about, so even the smallest supporting roles will be occupied by promising, devastatingly attractive people. Take Glusman (right), a member of villain Aaron Taylor Johnson's gang of thugs. But Glusman is also the star of Gaspar Noe's "Love," a graphic romance that rocked the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
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Michael Sheen Again, one only glimpsed in the trailer, Sheen plays something of a social ringmaster attempting to convince Amy Adams’ Susan to dig in her heels and enjoy her vacuous success.
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Kristen Bauer van Straten Fans of HBO’s “True Blood” will remember van Straten as the sublimely bitchy vampire consigliere to Alexander Skarsgard. Here, she appears as a museum board member fond of going under the knife -- who gets shredded by Amy Adams after challenging her at a meeting.
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Jena Malone Playing museum curator Sage Ross, Malone makes a brief and memorable cameo as a narcissistic Los Angeles mom -- ruthlessly concerned with her abstract clothes and baby monitor app -- with zero self-awareness over how she actually comes across.
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Michael Shannon As an irresistibly sour and menacing detective, Shannon is easily the most award-worthy of the bunch. But he's another breakout buried in the smash-cut trailers the film has circulated.
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Isla Fisher Mrs. Sacha Baron Cohen is under the radar in "Nocturnal Animals," and probably for good reason. The film has a major story-within-a-story, as it depicts in live action the contents of a novel Amy Adams' character is reading, written by her first husband (Jake Gyllenhaal). Fisher is something of a subliminal stand-in for Adams in the story -- to a harrowing effect.
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Laura Linney Beneath that Texas hair and Park Ave. pearls is national treasure Linney. In a role originally meant for Kim Basinger, Linney plays the disapproving mother of Adams' character, warning her of a widely-held fear: we all eventually become our mothers.
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