At THR's studio in Park City, 'Jimpa' director Sophie Hyde and stars Olivia Colman, John Lithgow and Aud Mason-Hyde discuss the fun they've had promoting their film, the origins of the movie name and more. Plus, John Lithgow reacts to his Oscars nomination and Olivia Colman shares the text she sent to Cynthia Erivo.
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00:00No actor is good all the time and I can't stand watching myself be bad but I love watching myself
00:07in Jimpa. Jimpa and Third Rock from the Sun are my favorite things. I think I'm absolutely hilarious
00:14in Third Rock from the Sun. I guess your last Sundance was remote. It was yeah like I've been
00:24coming for since I've come a few times before and um but yeah the last one which was a great
00:30festival for us but we weren't here so um it's amazing being back I love it so much yeah it's
00:36just so nice being back in the snow seeing everybody the idea that everyone's actually
00:40sitting there watching the films together still feels a bit a bit of a novelty yeah.
00:45We're having a great time I think anyway I'm having a great time I it's just like it's big
00:52and beautiful and hectic but amazing yeah we're just all having such a good time yeah yeah but
00:59you've been watching Sundance from afar for so long yeah I've watched my parents come to Sundance
01:05so many times and it's pretty spectacular to be here and to be able to be in the snow in Park City
01:11and going to screenings and I'm in the film what it's so special it's a thing of myth and legend
01:19for me. How did you find watching yourself on screen? Well I've watched it five times now
01:26I'm comfortable for the first two and then okay on the third watch terrible on the fourth watch
01:33and then I loved on the fifth so good overall. I've got friends who won't watch themselves
01:39and I don't mind um no I think like all humans I go oh I wish I hadn't done that with my chin
01:45but um also I don't think there's room for from an actor point of view you're not meant to have
01:52vanity but you know we're on screen we just can't help watch yourself and go oh yeah. Did it feel
01:58because like for those of us who who watch you this felt like a different version of you obviously
02:03um did it feel like you watching yourself in Jimba did you recognize like the the different
02:10side of yourself that he was showing? Well I've grown older than I realized very interesting
02:16because I've recently done a play in London and a good friend of my oldest friend came to see it and
02:22said you know you do something now and then where you suddenly look so old and I realized well good
02:32friend he's a really good friend no he he thought it was how do you do that it was a kind of magical
02:38acting and I think that I mean I'm 79 years old and I I think I've I've retained my youth mainly
02:45by acting uh and but it was very interesting to see Jimba because I saw a very different version
02:52of myself and a lot of it had to do with in the course of the film you see him gradually decline
02:59uh and I I sort of loved tracking that um just purely like like an audience member not watching
03:07myself act I began to see Jim and not me and I just found it just terribly moving it sounds
03:16egotistical to say that I'm just talking about the way I responded to it as a film so much of
03:22it had to do with acting with with Collie and with odd and all these marvelous the wonderful
03:31aunties in the film uh it's just and this is a great tribute to Sophie you just saw all these
03:39relationships come to life in such an emotionally authentic way is that a nickname Collie yes yeah
03:47yeah sorry in case you're going I didn't know there was a Collie are we supposed to keep that
03:51secret oh it's too late now John said it all day oh and uh where were we yesterday morning at 6 30
04:00a.m not in time when they announced fast asleep fast asleep I I barely have a dog in that race I
04:09I love everybody involved in Conclave I I literally had forgotten it was Oscar morning
04:15yeah when I turned my phone on um my friends in England were going Cynthia
04:20and I was texting Cynthia going
04:24sorry is the nickname Jimpa something that that did you is that fictional or is that
04:30no that was what um my dad decided he wanted to be called by Ord Jimpa like grandpa yeah yeah
04:38he didn't want to be he didn't want to sound too old so he thought he he didn't want to be
04:42grandpa he wanted to be Jimpa um and that's what we called forever and you called him it even though
04:47he wasn't your grandpa I always called him Jimpa from that point on yeah yeah did anyone else call
04:53their grandparents something not very much my brother who's older than me they said we need
04:59to differentiate differentiate between the grandparents so what do you think and you went
05:04old nana young nana nope nope nope that won't no and so they suggested um one nana had a dog
05:12called sooty and so they went sooty nana and old nana uh nanny oh yeah a bit like old nana yeah
05:24three of my four grandparents were gone by the time I was cognizant I had my one grammy
05:32at shoot a lot she uh sadly I've been nominated four times but I've never won a grammy
05:37but I had a grammy grandma what's like one suggestion for how how what Hollywood used
05:42to be doing more of or less of like what's comes to mind as oh that's a big question
05:49it's such a hard moment to answer that isn't it because the we just watched the fires and that
05:54was so impactful on the whole film community that I'm a bit like oh I don't really want to say
05:59anything they should be doing yeah I mean making stories like telling independent stories uh telling
06:04stories about humans uh the things that Hollywood has always done really well you know it'd be
06:10really nice to think that that's still possible and continues to be possible I I'm in this
06:18marvelous film conclave uh and every one thing that people are constantly saying about is it's
06:24like the way movies used to be uh and I I think it's like the way I responded to man for all
06:34seasons when I was like 16 years old it's true I would love to think that that kind of storytelling
06:41comes back just great writing that's turns turns into great movies