Joel Edgerton of 'Midnight Special': Filmmaking 'All Comes Down to Point of View'

At the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, actor Joel Edgerton (Midnight Special, Warrior, Black Mass) shared his thoughts on acting, directing, working with collaborators, building a career, and the craft and business of film in general.

Edgerton, who also wrote and directed 2015's The Gift, currently stars in the sci-fi chase film Midnight Special, the latest from writer-director Jeff Nichols' (Mud, Take Shelter). For his first studio picture, Nichols took Midnight Special straight to Warner Bros, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable, thinking-man's ode to Spielberg (whether he wants it called that or not) with one of the more effective—and simultaneously confounding—cinematic reveals in recent memory. Edgerton plays "a guy who's there to serve and protect this family," as played by Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, and 13-year-old Jaeden Lieberher.

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