Olivia Colman on How ‘Jimpa’ Helped Her Rediscover Her Love of Acting and Hollywood’s Fear of Queer Stories: ‘People Are Too Nervous’

Jimpa's Olivia Colman fears Hollywood is 'too nervous' to champion queer stories

Jimpa actress Olivia Colman has expressed her fear that the mainstream entertainment industry is “too nervous” to champion queer films in the current political climate. Sophie Hyde, the filmmaker behind the queer familial drama film, also shared her concern that a rise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric may have made it harder for the film to get picked up for distribution. Jimpa, which Hyde co-wrote and directed, debuted at Sundance Film Festival in Janua…

Olivia Colman pleads with people to stop being 'hateful' about sexuality and gender

Jimpa actress Olivia Colman has insisted "people are too nervous" about gender and sexuality.

Olivia Colman on How ‘Jimpa’ Helped Her Rediscover Her Love of Acting and Hollywood’s Fear of Queer Stories: ‘People Are Too Nervous’

Olivia Colman and 'Jimpa' director Sophie Hyde on Hollywood's anxiety about queer films, 'Heated Rivalry' and their approach to filmmaking.

Interview: Sophie Hyde on directing Jimpa and the radical act of listening; "Maybe that’s something we could all do a little more of."

There are films about chosen family – and then there are films that gently ask whether your biological family might be something you can choose, too. In Jimpa, acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) returns with a tender, funny and quietly radical portrait of three generations negotiating love, identity and the...