Overview
- The adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s 2014 memoir opens in UK cinemas on Friday 23 January with Foy portraying the author.
- Foy frames the role as a study of grief and depression and calls the experience emotionally exhausting.
- Filming required close work with goshawks under trainers Rose and Lloyd Buck, using five birds and improvising around their behavior.
- Foy says she was “footed” by a hawk during the final shot of production.
- The film is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, and reporting cites Brendan Gleeson and Denise Gough among the principal cast with screenplay credits to Lowthorpe, Emma Donoghue and Macdonald.