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The Projection Booth Podcast - Talking about Under The Skin

I was thrilled to be interviewed recently by Mike White  about my work on the first three drafts of the script for Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin , starring Scarlett Johansson , for The Projection Booth podcast. The Under The Skin podcast also features Alexandra West of the Faculty of Horror podcast , with whom Mike and Projection Booth cohost Rob St Mary discuss a particularly sexist review of Under The Skin by Horribly Hooched , which seems to reduce the film to a porn flick (I haven't read the review). Anyway, if you'd like to hear the podcast, which is two hours forty-five minutes long (I appear toward the end), you can listen at The Projection Booth or, thanks to Mike, right here on my blog: Download the Episode The Projection Booth Under The Skin podcast (2 hours 45 minutes) If you'd like to read more about my work on Under The Skin, please visit this page - and for Ryan Gilbey's New Statesman piece about m

Isserley, Penelope Cruz And The Slow Gestation Of Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin

My friend, the film critic Ryan Gilbey , recently wrote this piece for the New Statesman in Britain about my work on the first three drafts of the script of Jonathan Glazer's upcoming film, Under The Skin , released April 4 in the US and already in release in the UK and elsewhere. Working with Jonathan was a great experience, and Under The Skin itself is an extraordinary piece of work, both in terms of Michel Faber's novel and Jonathan's film. Ryan's review of Under The Skin is here , and to experience more of Ryan's work, check out the Guardian article about my lifelong friend and collaborator (on Insignificance ), the great British filmmaker, Nicolas Roeg, at the end of this blog post from June 3 2012: Nicolas Roeg - His Own Timing, His Own Wisdom and Kindness. Here is Ryan's New Statesman article: Isserley, Penélope Cruz and the slow gestation of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin Jon