John Magaro sits down with Amon Warmann at the iconic Curzon Mayfair to discuss his role in the Academy Award-nominated film SEPTEMBER 5, the challenges of acting and watching Back to The Future every day for a year.
In SEPTEMBER 5, Magaro plays live broadcast producer Geoffrey S. Mason, whose team must adapt to covering the hostage situation involves athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
SEPTEMBER 5 is now showing at Curzon.
0:00 intro and John Magaro’s first experience on set
1:31 revisiting Munich before September 5
2:20 thoughts on reading a script before taking a role
3:10 Magaro’s first approach to September 5
4:30 core inspiration from shadowing in a live broadcast control room
6:50 lessons from extreme acting methods
9:02 cinema-going habits
10:00 watching Back to The Future & great cinema outside of comfort films
11:55 challenging roles as an actor
13:43 on actor-character relationships
ABOUT CURZON FILM:
Curzon Film is the film distribution label of Curzon with a strong legacy of releasing and connecting critically acclaimed films to audiences across the U.K..
Curzon film was born in 1976 with the creation of Artificial Eye film releasing – a renowned film label widely recognised for being the leading distributor for international cinema, and introducing some of the greatest film directors of all time to discerning U.K. audiences including Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Andrei Tarkovsky and Abbas Kiarostami amongst others.
In 2006, Artificial Eye became part of Curzon. Curzon Film has released more Cannes PALME d’Or winners than any other UK distributor and is the recipient of multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history in 2020 by becoming the U.K.’s highest grossing foreign language film of all time. In 2017, Curzon received a BAFTA in recognition of its Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema.