Rebecca Hall Interview: Joining The Listeners to "Force a Crisis"
9Sometimes the tiniest real-world questions prompt the most immense existential answers. What if you were the only person who could hear a noise? It's not inside your head, you simply can't locate its source. How would you unravel? How would your relationships and fundamental beliefs change or evolve? The director of award-winning crime comedy Zola, Janicza Bravo, and BAFTA-nominated actress Rebecca Hall invite the audience to ask these exact questions in their new limited series, The Listeners, adapted from screenwriter and author Jordan Tannahill's second novel.
The Listeners depicts the life of Claire (Hall), an English teacher, wife, and mother who begins to hear a low humming sound nobody else around her can hear. With no obvious source of the sound, Claire's family life begins to spiral as she grows increasingly more isolated. Soon, she discovers a student of hers, Kyle (played by Ollie West), can also hear the sound. The two form a friendship and together meet more neighbors also tracking down the source of the mysterious, maddening hum. The Listeners explores our human search for the transcendent, conspiracy culture in the West, and the innate desire for community and connection.
In celebration of the Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of it's first two episodes, Bravo, Hall, and Tannahill came through the Collider interview studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to talk with Perri Nemiroff about how banal events and miniscule sounds can drive one's life. Together, they discussed how the team created and executed a limited series as a singular film, the joys of adapting one's own novel into a continuing screenplay, and finally letting Hall speak with her real voice.
Check it out in this TIFF 2024 interview!
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