The Oscar winner met Queen Elizabeth II in her living quarters, "Which is just like anybody’s living quarters," he says. "Tea trays and newspapers and stuff, just thrown around."
Perhaps not since Sid Vicious has someone been able to veer so effortlessly between heroin, the Queen of England and upending artistic expectations in one conversation.
Danny Boyle was in New York on Tuesday night to premiere his latest film, the frenetic neo-noir/psychological caper Trance. The movie stars James McAvoy as an erstwhile art thief working for a gangster (Vincent Cassel) and -- after a major head injury -- under the care of a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson) who must enter his brain to figure out where, exactly, he stashed a valuable stolen painting before sustaining the blow to his brain. But like this film, which leaps from one buzzing frame to the next, Boyle's career is so filled with twists and turns, any discussion with the Oscar-winning filmmaker seems to cover a whole range of topics.
Perhaps not since Sid Vicious has someone been able to veer so effortlessly between heroin, the Queen of England and upending artistic expectations in one conversation.
Danny Boyle was in New York on Tuesday night to premiere his latest film, the frenetic neo-noir/psychological caper Trance. The movie stars James McAvoy as an erstwhile art thief working for a gangster (Vincent Cassel) and -- after a major head injury -- under the care of a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson) who must enter his brain to figure out where, exactly, he stashed a valuable stolen painting before sustaining the blow to his brain. But like this film, which leaps from one buzzing frame to the next, Boyle's career is so filled with twists and turns, any discussion with the Oscar-winning filmmaker seems to cover a whole range of topics.