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Sally Hawkins on BBC Radio 4 “Woman’s Hour” with Jenni Murray, April 16th 2008

Sorry about the slight delay in posting this news! As you can tell from my Twitter updates (see right sidebar) I had started working on this post 4 days ago, but RL became so busy, I never got round to actually finishing it, so apologies for the wait!

As tommo has so beautifully put it, we (the Sally Hawkins fans) are being terribly spoilt at the moment with the deluge of multimedia of interviews featuring Sally Hawkins! More news to come on that, but in the meantime, here’s yet another interview with a different flavour to those from before!

Sally Hawkins won the best actress award at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival for her performance as Poppy in Mike Leigh’s latest film ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’. She talks about her starring role as the chirpy upbeat London primary school teacher who refuses to put a negative spin on life, and why as an actor she is drawn to working with Mike Leigh.

The interview with Jenni Murray, chair of the weekday BBC Radio4 programme Woman’s Hour, had a more serious tone to it, where JM and SH analysed, in particular, Poppy’s character in the film. Having listened to the more light-hearted interviews where SH laughs quite a bit, this interview had a more ‘grounded’ feeling.

This is not to say there weren’t some humorous moments during the interview, because there were (and I laughed with them ) but I found this interview particularly enjoyable, as they really dissect some of the scenes from the film in a lot more detail. This maybe because they have a longer time for the interview than before (9 minutes) but another plus point is that: one can never underestimate how great it is to listen to two very soothing voices on the radio!

You can catch it the entire interview on the BBC Realplayer by visiting the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2008_16_wed.shtml

Alternatively, press ‘play’ below to listen to the mp3 version of the same interview. Let us know if you like it as well!

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As usual we have included the transcript of the interview below the ‘cut’, so feel feel to click on ‘continue reading…’ to read the interview in full. There are a few words I didn’t quite catch, so if you happen to know what they were, please please let us know!

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Sally Hawkins on ‘The Kiosk’: Interview with Nadine O’Regan, March 29th 2008

Are you tired of interview news yet? I really hope not, because here’s another one for you to savour! The news comes courtesy of dana_7385 from the Sally Hawkins Domain, and this time, Sally Hawkins talked to Nadine O’Regan from the The Kiosk, a Saturday programme from the Dublin-based radio station Phantom 105.2.

The interview took place just after Sally Hawkins had won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress, and although it is quite short (about 6~7 minutes), they manage to cover a lot more than just Sally Hawkins‘ role as Poppy and the filming of Happy-Go-Lucky; including her ‘big break’ through Mike Leigh, as well as her other roles in Little Britain and the other TV adaptations, especially Fingersmith, where both NR and SH become quite indignant about the media uproar at the time.

The show is available as a podcast, so you can either listen to it online (on the website or clicking on the ‘play’ button below) or download it for your own mp3 player [23.4MB]. The interview takes place between 10:50~17:20 if you want to skip straight to the ‘important’ part!

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Video Q&A Session with Sally Hawkins at Berlinale 08

You might not have known that Sally Hawkins won the prestigious Silver Bear Award for Best Actress for her role as Poppy in Happy-Go-Lucky earlier this year during the Berlin International Film Festival or Berlinale. As part of the ‘official’ media coverage, she gave a short Q&A video interview where she talked alot about Poppy’s character and how Popopy interacts with the people around her.

You can watch the video by visiting the 3sat website, but just in case it’s down, we’ve included a transcript of the interview below the cut (after ‘Read More…’) so feel free to read through the text as well! I would personally recommend watching the Q&A in full, only because Sally Hawkins‘ expression adds so much more to the dialogue!

And before I forget, this news has come courtesy of noreia_05 from Sally Hawkins Domain. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to catch the name of the interviewer yet, so if you do spot her name, please let us know!

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Jason Solomons interviews Sally Hawkins on Guardian Unlimited Film Weekly, April 17th 2008

As part of this week’s edition of Film Weekly, Jason Solomons interviews Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan about Mike Leigh’s new film, Happy-Go-Lucky. This news update is courtesy of babsden from the Sally Hawkins Domain, and the interview starts off with a brief clip of a dialogue between Poppy (SH’s character) and Scott(EM’s role) during a driving lesson.

It then moves onto the actual interview, where they touch briefly on playing the characters, and talk about filming the driving scenes; and I have to say, although we do focus on Sally Hawkins on this site, Eddie Marsan was incredibly funny as well. They make such a good combination during the interview, and Sally Hawkins‘ laughter is really very infectious!

Not the funniest part of the interview, but just to give you a teaser:

JS: Did you have any accidents?
SH: Yes, just a few.

As a side note, after reading and listening to a couple of interviews, the common theme is that Mike Leigh really does keep his actors guessing during the filming!

You can listen to the full podcast by visiting the website, or by clicking on the ‘play’ button below. The interview starts at around 16:30, which is just over halfway through the programme, and (sadly) lasts a brief 6 minutes, ending at 22:40.

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p/s: You can listen to a special in-depth interview with Mike Leigh by Jason Solomons from last week’s edition of Film Weekly.

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Sally Hawkins’ Interview with Nemone on BBC 6 Music, April 17th 2008

Just to show we are (abit) up-to-date with Sally Hawkins‘ latest news, we’re posting a quick update to let everyone know that she was interviewed today by Nemone on BBC 6 Music as part of the Film on Thursday special!

You can listen to the show by visiting the show’s main info page, and looking down to the week’s listing for Thursday, 17th April 2008. We’ll post more information once we’ve finished listening to the interview ourselves! However, you can watch a preview trailer of Happy-Go-Lucky courtesy of lostmaverick by clicking on the Youtube video below.