Agyness Deyn & Terence Davies, Sunset Song

Britain’s Terence Davies waited 18 years to make Sunset Song, his luminous adaptation of the Scottish classic by Lewis Grassic Gibbon that celebrates its heroine’s attachment to the unforgiving land she farms at the dawn of the Great War.

The director and his star were interviewed separately, starting with Ms. Deyn...

To play Chris Guthrie, model-turned actor, Agyness Deyn, had to convince her writer-director that an Englishwoman could be as natural with the dialect as with the role's explicitly sexual and romantic encounters.

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