Charlotte Regan is the director of Sundance darling Scrapper, a lovely indie film about a strong-willed young girl Georgie (Lola Campbell), who is dealing poorly with the grief of losing her mother until her estranged father, Jason (Harris Dickinson), returns. Regan spent last night at the Tyneside Cinema, a cinema she cannot praise highly enough. Today she’s doing Edinburgh International Film Festival junkets. Tomorrow, Glasgow.
It’s no surprise then that she’s feeling a little faint. Sat in her Kate Herron GirlsOnTops tee, she takes a small pinprick of blood from her finger to check her sugar levels. It’s not anyone’s business to know the medical reasoning as to why she did but the act mirrors one of the film’s most interesting ideas, which is the hearing aid that Lola Campbell’s Georgie wears. “It is her own hearing aid, and we try not to talk about it much because it’s her choice to discuss it. So yeah, it is her hearing aid, and we’re very keen not to make a thing of it.” She echoes the sentiment made about inclusivity, likening the disability to normalising glasses. “She used it to her advantage on set. When she was sick of notes, she would say (Regan cups her ear), ‘So sorry I don’t think the levels were quite right’.”
This was posted on September 14th 2023. Full interview linked below.
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