Nicholas Hoult, speaking at Red Sea Film Festival on Monday, touched on his upcoming Tom Ford movie, “Cry to Heaven,” the adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel.
Hoult stars alongside Adele, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Hunter Schafer and Thandiwe Newton, among others.
Hoult, who previously appeared in Ford’s “A Single Man,” said: “Yeah, we start shooting next year for that. I’m really looking forward to being back on set with Tom. He’s a wonderful director to work with. Just his attention to detail. His understanding of the emotions of the characters. He’s written a really beautiful script, and it’s a wonderful cast. So I’m really looking forward to working with everyone.”
Hoult, who recently appeared in Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2,” said that he’d like to do a Western. “Working with Clint, I went back and watched all of his classic movies. One of my all time favorite movies is ‘Unforgiven.’ I think it’s a masterpiece. So I really at some point want to do a Western.”
Hoult has been taking part in the Ferrari Challenge Series and had a crash racing this year at Daytona. He is likely to have his first proper race in March, he said, and added that he’d love to be in a racing movie.
He said: “I find [racing] very similar to acting, in some ways. It’s like an intense focus, but also this kind of flow state where it’s input, output. You’re just focusing on, like, what you need to look at, what’s happening, and then what you need to do too, and so they’re very similar in many ways. Like acting, you’re looking at the other person, seeing whatever it is, observing, and then hopefully the output comes naturally.
“So there’s a lot of similarities, but it’s also terrifying. I had my first crash at Daytona this year. That was a weird thing, because as I was spinning across the track, all I can remember thinking was, ‘Oh, this is what it feels like.’ You know, when you haven’t experienced something before and it’s happening, and it’s quick, but it’s happening, and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is it.’ And it’s not necessarily like a total fear, but it’s like, ‘Huh,’ because you can’t imagine what that feels like. So then when it happens, you go, ‘Oh, that’s the feeling … interesting.’”
Hoult said that after he and his son watched “F1: The Movie,” one of the first movies they’ve gone to see as father and son, they then went go-karting. “I took him go-karting a few weeks after that, and just as we were about to walk out the door, he goes, ‘Wait, wait, wait,’ and he goes running off, and he comes back. ‘Where’d you go? What happened? What is it?’ And he showed me he had two playing cards. I don’t know if you remember Brad Pitt’s character has his two playing cards, his lucky playing cards for whenever he drives. So my son was like, ‘Oh, I need my playing cards to be like Brad.’”
