‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ director Isabella Eklöf reveals Nick Cave was “very hands-off”
In an exclusive interview with Far Out, The Death of Bunny Munro director Isabella Eklöf has revealed Nick Cave was “very hands-off” despite the adaptation being based on his work.
Cave was the mastermind behind the 2009 novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, that has been adapted into a six-part series with Matt Smith playing the titular character.
In the show, Bunny is a door-to-door salesman, a sex addict, and an alcoholic, who takes his son with him on the run after his wife commits suicide.
Director Isabella Eklöf spoke exclusively to Far Out about her work behind the camera. When asked about Cave’s involvement in the process, she said it was relatively minimal.
Expanding upon this, she shared, “I think it’s tricky for someone who’s a writer and musician to be in a context that’s entirely foreign to him. He’s used to being the most competent person in the room, and in this setting, he wouldn’t be so.”
She added, “So that makes it, I think, hard to navigate, and that’s also the reason why he was very hands-off.”
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The director continued, “I think that’s true of every real artist. They understand that they are experts in one thing, and other people are experts in other things, and that’s the nature of filmmaking in general.”
Also speaking exclusively to Far Out on the series, screenwriter Pete Jackson deemed Cave “a brilliant collaborator, enormously supportive and helpful, and had some big notes and thoughts along the way and but enabled us and emboldened us to really go for it.”
The Death of Bunny Munro is available to watch on Sky and Now TV.
Watch Far Out‘s exclusive interview with writer Pete Jackson below.
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