Credit: Tribeca Film Festival
I recently had the chance to interview Passion Play writer/director Mitch Glazer for Shockya.com. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
“Passion Play” is Glazer’s directorial debut. “I love it,” he said when asked about his experience directing. “I’ve been a screenwriter forever. I would get frustrated saying, ‘Hey, Mickey [Rourke], I’ve got this great idea for a movie’, write it, and then hand it off to someone else. Sometimes, you want to finish telling the story. I wanted to direct a movie I can really stand behind and believe in.”
The cast, including Megan Fox, Mickey Rouke, Rhys Ifans and Bill Murray, was, according to Glazer, a joy to work with. “It was really an honor,” he said. “It was perfect. I was incredibly flattered that they were on board.” To see Murray and Rourke, two Oscar winners, acting out something written by Glazer, was fantastic, said Glazer. He also said Fox was “the mysterious, lovable beauty that I wanted in the role. They were all…collaborators. It was really a dream… a thrill to direct them.”
If you’d like to read more about Glazer, including some info on his next writing project, click here to get to Shockya!
