![]() ![]() We’ve been making it over a period of two years, starting with the opening of the Hale archive in January 2020. You don’t often get invited to make it together! I was so thrilled to get that call. You often hear that someone is pursuing the same idea as you. ![]() It was the most extraordinary stroke of luck. She was a few steps ahead of me, and had already got a commission from BBC Arts to make a film about Emily Hale - and asked if I would be interested in directing it. So, I had been working on the film independently, but I was actually directing on The Deuce when I got a call from Rosie Alison. ![]() But as the date of their release got closer I connected with Lyndall Gordon, an academic who has long believed that Emily Hale was crucial to Eliot’s poetry. I knew there were these letters between them, but they were under embargo, locked up in Princeton. The difficulty was that the story I wanted to tell about Eliot and The Waste Land was rooted in the story of Eliot’s relationship with Emily Hale. This film had been on my mind for a long time, I’d literally thought about making it 20 years ago. I’d made films before on Larkin ( Love Again) and Auden ( Tell Me the Truth About Love), and I’d always seen them as part of a trilogy. How did you first become attached to Into ‘The Waste Land’? ![]()
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