Mike Leigh interview: ‘A guy in the Guardian wants to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!’

Hermione Eyre talks to the filmmaker about Turner, Hollywood and making films his own way

From magazine issue: 18 October 2014

Timothy Spall as the eponymous painter in Mike Leigh’s new film ‘Mr Turner’. [Getty Images]

issue 18 October 2014

Text size

Small

Medium

Large
Line Spacing

Compact

Normal

Spacious
Comments
Share
Share

Hermione Eyre

Mike Leigh interview: ‘A guy in the Guardian wants to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!’
Linkedin

Messenger

Email

[audioplayer src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/apollomagazine/Apollo_final.mp3″ title=”Tom Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, talks to Mike Leigh”]

Listen

[/audioplayer]Mike Leigh is in a cheerfully bullish mood when I meet him at the Soho Hotel. ‘Have you read today’s Guardian?’ Dammit — I should have seen that coming. ‘A guy in G2 would like to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!’ He seems almost pleased.