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So there’s no real point at looking to the past or into the future and hoping for something that isn’t real. Said McKenzie, of the discoveries Eloise makes, “No matter what time period you’re in, there’s always gonna some kind of struggle or there’s always gonna be a dark side. Though she added, with a laugh, maybe they wouldn’t want to come back to 2021 specifically. Thomasin McKenzie remarked that thinking of a past era as one that must have been better than the present is very common, pondering that one day, “So many people in the future might be looking back at this time, the time we’re in now,” in the same manner. There’s an element of it, where I would think about that a lot and I would think about the dark side.” Thomasin McKenzie in 'Last Night in Soho' And the energy of that place changes after midnight. Today, it’s been mostly gentrified, but the ghosts are still there.

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It’s the heart of the film and TV industry, but the sex industry and the criminal underworld, they’re right on top of each other. And even when I first moved to London in the mid-90s, Soho was a lot more edgy than it is today and the high and the low coexisted. Wright noted that, like Eloise, his perspective was somewhat altered after making a big move to the city, explaining, “Especially when moving to London, it’s impossible to kind of ignore the dark side of things. After starting an obsession with ’60s music through my parents’ record collection, that continued into the TV and the film and the art and the fashion of the time.”

I was born in the ’70s but I would think about the ’60s as a time that I missed out on. It was something I would think about a lot. You’re sort of trying to cure yourself of something. Replied Wright, “I think so! I think maybe sometimes making a film is like lying on the psychiatrist’s couch. So I asked Wright if he was essentially making a warning… to himself?

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Edgar Wright himself has spoken of his own huge love for that same era, yet has made a film in which his main character learns a dark lesson about having blinders on to the full picture. But soon, through Sandie’s story, she discovers a far more sinister side to the era she’s built up in her head. Last Night in Soho’s heroine, Eloise, has a massive adoration for London in the 1960s and when she first finds herself transported back there, it’s everything she has always wanted. Be Careful What You Yearn For (L-R) Anya Taylor-Joy as Sandie and Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise in 'Last Night in Soho' I spoke to Wright and McKenzie about taking a look at the dangerous side of nostalgia - even as Wright admits he’s plenty nostalgic himself - along with how the Last Night in Soho team pulled off some notably impressive filmmaking tricks when it came to Eloise and Sandie’s mirrored coexistence, in a film that again showcases the dynamic and compelling visual manner in which Wright ( Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. Soon, the unsettling things Eloise is seeing in the past begin to appear to her in the present in increasingly horrifying ways and she must try and figure out what exactly happened to Sandie and how she can finally set things right.

In Edgar Wright’s new film, Last Night in Soho, Eloise “Ellie” Turner ( Jojo Rabbit and Old‘s Thomasin McKenzie) is a young fashion student who comes to London, only to be swept into a thrilling and then terrifying adventure, as she begins to find herself transported into the London of the 1960s when she sleeps – as she follows along with Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy), an aspiring singer who meets a man (Matt Smith) who claims he can make her dreams come true.Īs Eloise sees more and more of Sandie’s life, she learns just how ominous and disturbing things got for the girl – and discovers that her own obsession with all things ’60s, and belief that it was the time she’d most like to live in, have masked a darkness that was a part of that era as well.

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