{"id":501567,"date":"2026-06-19T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501567\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:12:16","slug":"rose-of-nevada-george-mackay-on-callum-turner-bond-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501567\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rose of Nevada’: George MacKay on Callum Turner, Bond Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBritish mainstays like George MacKay<\/a> are quickly getting used to fielding questions about James Bond casting rumors, with everyone from the likes of Tom Francis<\/a> to MacKay\u2019s own \u201cRose of Nevada<\/a>\u201d co-star Callum Turner<\/a> reportedly being considered. But for the \u201c1917\u201d and \u201cPride\u201d actor who\u2019s in love with the \u201cprocess\u201d of filmmaking \u2014 and used to transforming \u2014 there\u2019s an entirely different 007 role he\u2019d love to play.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI quite like the idea of a villain \u2014 maybe a one and done, chew the scenery a bit, come be part of it, get the best scenes and then get killed!\u201d MacKay tells Variety with a laugh.<\/p>\n

\n\tMacKay hasn\u2019t taken on a villainous role in a blockbuster yet, but it\u2019s that willingness to constantly challenge himself that makes him one of the U.K.\u2019s most formidable and consistent performers. His foreboding performance in Mark Jenkin\u2019s new film \u201cRose of Nevada,\u201d releasing in theaters this weekend from 1-2 Special, takes him to darker places than ever before; his character, Nick, is desperate to support his family, while Liam (Turner) is desperate to escape the past. After going out to sea to fish, they accidentally time travel back to 30 years ago. Upon returning to land, everyone in their local Cornish village assumes they are a pair of fishermen that actually went missing.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWatching Jenkin\u2019s last two films, 2019\u2019s \u201cBait\u201d and 2022\u2019s \u201cEnys Men,\u201d drew MacKay to his distinctive style. \u201cI want to try as many different ways of working as I can to learn and get better,\u201d he says. \u201cTo know Mark\u2019s got, firstly, a very specific filmmaking process, and that the film itself is so deeply entwined with that process and fused to it \u2014 that was why I wanted to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaking process was unique as Jenkin shot on 16mm film with a Bolex camera, giving the actors only 27 seconds to shoot scenes at a time \u2014 certainly a change of pace from the \u201c1917\u201d long takes. To add onto that, all the sound was recorded in post. MacKay says these conditions forced him to be \u201caccurate\u201d as a performer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSometimes, you work with a director that encourages or has a process that allows you to offer every interpretation, so you kind of go home at the end of the day feeling like, \u2018I don\u2019t know which one they\u2019ll pick.\u2019 But I felt like I did everything [here],\u201d MacKay says. \u201cYou have a real sense of ownership because you\u2019ve had one go at it \u2026 I\u2019m being trusted with this version, so this is my choice. There you go. I\u2019m not ashamed to hide my choice within nine other versions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough MacKay had only briefly met Turner before \u201cRose of Nevada,\u201d both actors were born in London, can proudly call themselves BAFTA nominees, and often find themselves in the same circle of friends and colleagues. So perhaps being co-stars was always fate.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI admire his ambition, his choices and the work that he\u2019s doing and wants to be part of,\u201d MacKay says. \u201cSecond only to Mark, he\u2019s probably the biggest cinephile I\u2019ve ever met. There is not a film he hasn\u2019t seen and that was also a lesson just in terms of knowing your subject. I always respect people who are an expert in what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it came to playing their characters and getting into a flow, MacKay says they didn\u2019t talk much about it: \u201cIt was all quite guttural and natural.\u201d Learning how to fish, however, was a different story.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThankfully, my character was inept as a fisherman, so I could embrace my ineptitude and be a rookie,\u201d MacKay says with a laugh. The same couldn\u2019t be said for Turner.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo capture the intense fishing scenes out in the ocean, there was some \u201csimple movie magic\u201d done to make the boat look like it was moving. \u201cBut so much of the fishing sequences we were doing, we were hauling those nets,\u201d MacKay adds. \u201cThose winches were going, we were gutting the fish. In a way, it takes any having to imagine or intellectualize out of it. You just have to do the task in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMacKay typically finds himself drawn to complex characters. Nick, on the other hand, is very direct: \u201cHe\u2019s a simple bloke. I remember writing on my script in Cornish, it got translated, \u2018It is what it is.\u2019 He has a family, he will try and find work to feed his family; he\u2019s not particularly good at that, but he will try his best. It was a very simple goal all the time in just an extraordinary situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLiam comes to accept this new reality, taking in a family that isn\u2019t his own, leaving Nick to experience this accidental time travel in complete isolation: \u201cIt\u2019s only horrific because you experience the film with Nick, and then it\u2019s not so horrific because Liam is actually looking for that. He\u2019s gifted this thing that, you don\u2019t know why, but he hasn\u2019t found it in his life. Is it a loving thing that the people he falls in with accept him with a sort of quiet knowing that maybe he isn\u2019t who he says he is? Or is that a horrific and dangerous thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just don\u2019t have any answers, but I think Mark\u2019s sparse writing reflects that,\u201d he adds. \u201cIronically, it\u2019s the sparsity and the kind of strictness and rawness of the writing that allows many more ephemeral and fluid interpretations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStarring in \u201cRose of Nevada\u201d continues MacKay\u2019s trajectory of working on more independent, arthouse projects. After his breakthrough role in 2019\u2019s \u201c1917,\u201d which was nominated for 10 Oscars and grossed $384 million worldwide, MacKay found his groove in films like the queer neo-noir \u201cFemme,\u201d trippy cerebral sci-fi \u201cThe Beast\u201d and end-of-the-world musical \u201cThe End.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough, like \u201cRose of Nevada,\u201d those films defy categorization. MacKay explains his rationale for the roles he chooses: \u201cAt the end of the day, the making of the film, whether it gets seen or not by how many people \u2014 it\u2019s a very personal pursuit. So it\u2019s just following my gut in terms of what I find exciting, important or unknown. That\u2019s been the litmus test, really. And then it\u2019s a bit of a lottery as to what hits home, or doesn\u2019t, in terms of a commercial success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNext up, MacKay will star as Edward Ferrars in the latest adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cSense and Sensibility,\u201d alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, Caitriona Balfe and Fiona Shaw. Beyond the story, what excited MacKay most about joining that film was getting to work with director Georgia Oakley, who made her directorial debut with the acclaimed indie \u201cBlue Jean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s fucking amazing, a gorgeous film. In a way, when I saw \u2018Blue Jean,\u2019 I knew that when I got the opportunity to read the \u2018Sense and Sensibility\u2019 script\u2019 and that Georgia would be directing it \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 her sensibility as a filmmaker felt so correct for this,\u201d MacKay says. \u201cAnd in a way, the themes of the film with the rules that people have, or society has, about who and how you love and the things that are attached to a pure feeling. It felt very right that Georgia would be helming it \u2026 I\u2019ve seen a cut of it, and I\u2019m really thrilled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRose of Nevada\u201d is currently playing in limited theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British mainstays like George MacKay are quickly getting used to fielding questions about James Bond casting rumors, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47116,146,47117,85,46,47118],"class_list":["post-501567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-callum-turner","tag-entertainment","tag-george-mackay","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rose-of-nevada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}