Ian McShane Interview

I worked with a girl on John Wick 3, Asia Kate Dillon. I shouldn’t say ‘girl’, because she prefers ‘them’, but she’s a lovely girl. She’s a terrific actor, too, but before we started I told her that I was sorry if I sometimes say ‘she’, but it’s hard to say ‘them’ when there’s only one of you. She explained that because of her stance she has become a role model for teenagers in Bumfuck, Illinois or wherever. They write her letters to say, ‘you speak for me’. So I do understand that aspect of it. It’s just difficult to understand the parameters of the language

On some jobs now you have to sit through an hour-long presentation on bullying and harassment before you start the shoot. I encountered a new one the other day: an ‘intimate director’ for intimate scenes. How do you qualify for that?”

Someone the other day was saying that Bill Hicks wouldn’t work now because he’s sexist. What the fuck? Michael McIntyre and Jack Whitehall, two of the unfunniest fucking people I’ve ever seen, are the most popular comics in England.”