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Johnny Flynn praises Aimee Lou Wood in The Idiot(s)
Johnny Flynn praised Aimee Lou Wood's acting while discussing their film The Idiot(s).
The drama stars Wood as Anna and Flynn as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Russian writer who wrote Crime and Punishment.
The film follows the Dostoyevskys' troubled marriage as Fyodor struggles to write a novel called The Idiot.
His gambling addiction gets in the way, and Anna secretly starts writing the book to protect their family from poverty.
Wood and Flynn said they quickly became close friends, and Flynn said trust and playful improvisation helped them work through demanding scenes.
The film has screened at UK venues, including three BFI screenings in October, two of which sold out.
No official cinema release date has been announced.
Johnny Flynn praised his The Idiot(s) co-star Aimee Lou Wood as one of the best actors of any generation.
Flynn said he and Wood became close friends from the first day of working together.
The film stars Wood and Flynn as Anna and Fydor Dostoyevsky.
The drama follows the couple’s troubled marriage as Anna tries to protect the family from Fydor’s gambling addiction.
- Who
- Johnny Flynn praised his co-star Aimee Lou Wood.
- What
- Flynn called Wood one of the best actors of any generation.
- When
- Flynn spoke to Digital Spy at the film’s UK premiere; the date is not stated.
- Where
- The UK premiere; its location is not stated.
- Why
- Flynn was describing what it was like to work with Wood.
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The Idiot(s) made its festival debut at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival.
The BFI held three screenings of the film across the UK, with the latter two sold out.
- Film
- The Idiot(s)
- Directors
- Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert
- Lead actors
- Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn
- Festival debut
- 5 September, at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival
- BFI screenings
- 14, 16 and 18 October, across the UK
What people are saying
Working with Aimee and with Vicky [Krieps] who are two of the best actors in, not even my generation maybe, but of any generation, so it was fantastic.
From day one, really, we became really close friends.
On the first day when we did a tarot reading and he was so excited to do a tarot reading, I knew that we were going to be best friends