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    How ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Threaded a Needle to Make Its Annoying Principal Character ‘Bearable’

    David GroveBy David GroveJanuary 31, 20253 Mins Read
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    It’s a superb factor Tim Key’s so “charming,” as his comedy and writing companion Tom Basden places it, as a result of if his character in “The Ballad of Wallis Island” was any extra annoying, he would possibly threaten to derail the entire thing.

    “He’s undoubtedly essentially the most harmful in that respect that he can break the movie,” Key stated within the IndieWire Studio 2025 at Sundance, introduced by DropBox. “Mainly it’s attending to the purpose the place you utterly consider that this man is in a dwelling nightmare as a result of he’s on this man’s pocket, however not that spinning out into the viewers of being, I can’t bear to look at this man.”

    “The Ballad of Wallis Island” stars Basden and Key revisiting characters they initiated at the beginning of their careers with a 2007 quick movie. Within the quick, a fading people rock musician named Herb McGwire takes a personal gig on a distant island for a person who has received the lottery. What McGwire doesn’t know is that his host is an viewers of 1, and that he’s essentially the most irritating tremendous fan round.

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    The film expands on that premise by introducing Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), the opposite half of 2000s indie people duo McGwyer Mortimer and McGwyer’s former love curiosity. Mortimer arrives to reunite with McGwyer with him being none the wiser, rekindling an outdated relationship.

    As IndieWire famous in our evaluate out of Sundance, the movie is heat, candy, and humorous in the way in which many John Carney films are. However on this occasion, director James Griffiths wanted to strike a selected tone to verify audiences didn’t tire of him as a lot as McGwyer does.

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    “It’s ensuring we get the stability proper that his character is bearable,” Griffiths stated. “There’s a advantageous line the place you simply don’t need the viewers to get aggravated with it, however you need Herb to get aggravated with it. It was a tonnage factor. There’s quite a lot of nice materials, however we simply needed to maintain it [focused].”

    A part of that problem got here in merely enhancing down the countless improvisation between Basden and Key that might’ve made for its personal terrific film.

    “I liked the dynamic, simply attending to be on set and watch these guys and be the straight man and watch these guys. The four-hour movie that’s not there may be simply these guys riffing. It’s the perfect,” Mulligan stated. “In the long run of each scene they’d simply hold going, after which Griff after some time would go, ‘Okay, that’s sufficient.”

    “Not even ‘Lower,’ simply I can’t bear this anymore,’” Key chimed in.

    “The Ballad of Wallis Island” premiered on the Sundance Movie Competition. Focus Options will launch it theatrically on March 28.

    Dropbox is proud to companion with IndieWire and the Sundance Movie Competition. In 2025, 68% of characteristic movies premiering on the Sundance Movie Competition used Dropbox of their movie manufacturing. Dropbox helps filmmakers and inventive groups discover, manage, and safe all of the information which are vital to any mission.



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