Swedish-born director Joakim Reveman has come aboard the roster of Interrogate, the bicoastal production company founded by managing director Jeff Miller.
Reveman made his first industry mark on the agency side of the business. Reveman was just 25 when he won his first Cannes Gold Lion for Doctors Without Borders, effectively jump-starting his advertising career. As a creative director at TBWA Paris, he won over 40 international awards, which in turn helped the agency win the Cannes Lion’s “Ad Agency of the Year” honor for three consecutive years.
Shortly thereafter, Joakim launched his own directing collective, The Vikings, with several like-minded friends. Their first endeavor was The Power of Wind, a film that the Gunn Report stated was the “Second Most Awarded Film” that year, after nabbing a Gold Lion at Cannes, and top honors at the AICP Show, Clio, One Show, ADC and the Grand Prix at Eurobest.
Working in Europe and then the U.S. under @radical.media before signing on with Interrogate, Reveman has collaborated with a wide variety of clients including Nike, Cadbury, BMW, Epuron, Schick and ESPN alongside agencies like GSD&M, Wieden+Kennedy and Euro RSCG New York.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More