{"id":458154,"date":"2026-05-20T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:43:08","slug":"milo-machado-garner-interview-on-goodbye-cruel-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458154\/","title":{"rendered":"Milo Machado-Garner interview on ‘Goodbye Cruel World’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAt the age of 17, Milo Machado-Graner<\/a> is already familiar to audiences in Cannes<\/a>. First, he appeared as the sight-impaired son in Justine Triet\u2019s 2023 arthouse smash Anatomy of a Fall<\/a>, then he came back the following year with Filmlovers!, Arnaud Desplechin\u2019s poetic ode to cinema. This year, you\u2019ll find him closing Critics\u2019 Week with Goodbye Cruel World<\/a>, a beautiful, bittersweet fairytale that plays like Moonrise Kingdom, if it were made by Nouvelle Vague legend Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut as part of his Antoine Doinel series.<\/p>\n

\n\tMachado-Graner \u2014 who looks more than a little like Truffaut\u2019s 400 Blows star Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud \u2014 plays Otto, a teenage loner who is at the end of his tether after being bullied by his classmates and writes a letter telling the whole school that he is going to kill himself as a result. But his suicide attempt is thwarted, and despite his embarrassed determination to stay missing, Otto is discovered by L\u00e9na (Jane Beever<\/a>), who hides him away in a disused room at her mother\u2019s guest house, where they plan to elope.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe part was originally ear-marked for Machado-Graner\u2019s brother Solan, who is also an actor. \u201cHe did some auditions, but they said he was too young, and so they went a bit older. I met Felix at a casting and we did some scenes, especially the scenes at the beginning, before the suicide attempt. There was a real difference between the beginning and the end of the audition, and I think Felix saw that we could work well together. He called me a day or two after that, saying, \u2018OK, we want you on a callback.\u2019 And when we did the callback, he said, \u2018OK, you\u2019re in. Welcome!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRead the digital edition of Deadline\u2019s\u00a0Disruptors\/Cannes magazine\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy did he want to do it? \u201cI think it\u2019s because it\u2019s really different. I like the idea, as an actor, of playing very different characters. My big one was Anatomy of a Fall, where I played a blind child, really introverted. But this role took me to a different place, a place I didn\u2019t know, and it was a love story, something I\u2019d never played before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCannes is particularly special to the actor because his first time there took him all the way to the Oscars, where Triet\u2019s film had five nominations and won Best Screenplay. \u201cWe did the campaign and it was really intense,\u201d he says. \u201cI think we felt relieved, but also because, I mean, it was a powerful moment because the French selection committee didn\u2019t decide to send us for best foreign picture, so we were taking our revenge maybe. And so, we partied like we never partied before. The Vanity Fair party was really memorable \u2014 grabbing a burger next to Steven Spielberg. It was like we were saying, \u2018OK, we didn\u2019t do all these interviews, all that campaigning for nothing!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the age of 17, Milo Machado-Graner is already familiar to audiences in Cannes. First, he appeared as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[198700,47241,173028,10532,198050,93,198701,61,60,198702,198703,270],"class_list":["post-458154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anatomy-of-a-fall","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-critics-week","tag-entertainment","tag-goodbye-cruel-world","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jane-beever","tag-milo-machado-graner","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}