On the margin of a screening of their period drama The Uprising – Rebel Heart, which will arrive in our cinemas on November 6, its star Andrew Garfield and director Paul Greengrass invited — with few words — not to relegate the themes of their story to a past that smells of Robin Hood. The issues the film touches are timeless: Garfield in particular hopes they can put pressure on those who have too much money and turn a deaf ear to social inequalities.
The Uprising, Andrew Garfield: “I hope it will be galvanizing and wake people up”
The Uprising – Rebel Heart is set in 14th-century England, specifically in 1381, when a tenant farmer (Andrew Garfield) leads the peasant revolt against King Richard II, who in a society ravaged by the plague and the economic crisis increases taxes and abuses the population. If you hear echoes of Robin Hood, it’s normal, but Garfield doesn’t want the story to be seen only as a look back at the past: “I hope it is galvanizing, I hope people wake up, that they feel their own difficulties reflected in the ordeals of these characters distant in time and space, and I hope they feel inspired. And I also hope that, if billionaires watch it, they will crap their pants […], because they’re the ones with the sickest souls. They are the ones who would need to be cured.” Garfield here revisits the film’s multifaceted concept of “care,” also invoked by director Paul Greengrass: “The line ‘There will be no peace until we are cured‘ is just as valid today as it was six hundred years ago.”
The film’s cast, written also by Greengrass himself, includes Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman and Katherine Waterston. The last film directed by the English filmmaker was The Lost Bus with Matthew McConaughey, an Apple TV+ exclusive from last year. Before The Uprising, Andrew Garfield will appear in our cinemas on October 6, in the family fantasy The Tree of the Very Far Away.
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