The film is inspired by director Sam Mendes' grandfather’s stories of having to cross no-man’s land to deliver messages.
He’s been sequestered in a subterranean room at the Crosby Street Hotel for the first part of the day during a mid-December stop in New York, but he doesn’t seem to mind. There are few clues that the wide-eyed and wholesome British actor has been shuttling from city to city nonstop for the past few weeks. He’s too polite to express anything other than gratitude and offer up the spread of snacks and various beverages that has barely been touched.
It all means that MacKay has been making the rounds, attending various screenings and participating in Q&As and other assortment of press that a big-budget studio movie requires of its stars. “Some of the moms I’ve spoken to and fathers have gone, ‘God, my son is 16, 17 — to think they’d be among all of that is…'” MacKay trails off. “When I watched [the film], it was quite emotional, because it made me very clear on who I love most in my life, and where I root myself.” For him, it underscored the importance of family. “I think it’s because as a human, when you go through extremes of emotion or physical extremes, it teaches you what you come back to.
Schofield with fellow soldiers in “1917,” the new film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes. Photo Credit: François Duhamel The film, which rehearsed for four months before shooting began, was a process not unlike that of the theater, which MacKay has strong ties to — his father worked as a stage manager and his mother as a costume designer — and hopes to explore more in the future. The movie used multiple cameras but has been edited to appear as if it were all shot in one take — similar to the critical darling film “Birdman.
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