Mike Leigh remembers Simon Channing Williams
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Last week, while covering the Cannes Film Festival, Times film critic Kenneth Turan interviewed director Mike Leigh, whose new film ‘Another Year’ had its premiere at the festival. In the interview, Leigh explained the role of longtime producer Simon Channing Williams, who died in April 2009 at 63, just as rehearsals were beginning for ‘Another Year.’
‘It’s an absolute cast-iron certainty that I would not have been able to make the films I’ve made since the 1990s, films with no script, no commitment as to subject matter and a refusal to discuss casting, without Simon as the producer.’
To read the rest of the interview, including Leigh’s magical description of how Williams might have had a hand in ‘Another Year,’ click here and continue to the very end.
--Claire Noland
