The Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour will feed into the debate around the nature of President Donald Trump’s abrasive, confrontational form of leadership, says Joe Wright, the film’s director.
“Churchill resisted when it mattered most, and as I travel around America I am really impressed and optimistic at the level of resistance happening in the US at the moment.
But as we made the film events came over us like a great wave, and suddenly the film became strangely topical.
After George W Bush was elected, it wasn’t the same level; there was more apathy then.