Joined by returning guest Mia Sherry, the I Know That Face crew dive deep into the career of Meth Damon himself, Jesse Plemons! Beginning his career as a child actor Plemons came to attention as Landry in Friday Night Lights. He quickly followed that show's end in 2011 with a heel turn into one of Breaking Bad's most venomous villains, Todd Alquist. It's been quite a decade for Plemons with roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, and Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thin...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 9 min
In this special I Know That Face episode, Stephen Porzio chats with writer-director Corinna Faith about her brilliant debut feature The Power, streaming on Shudder now. A 70s-set horror, it centres on a young nurse forced to work the night shift during a blackout. Already scared of the dark due to a traumatic event in her past, she soon realises an angry spirit is haunting the hospital. Here, the filmmaker discusses where the idea for the movie came from, her relationship with horror, her influe...
Apr 08, 2021•24 min
This week Stephen and Andrew are joined by screenwriter, producer and filmmaker Niall Cassin to talk about the evergreen career of Bruce Greenwood. Capable of switching from cool authority figures like JFK in Thirteen Days to monstrous husbands in Double Jeopardy and Gerald's Game to sensitive working class men such as Billy Ansel in The Sweet Hereafter, Greenwood has carved out a path for himself as a reliable jack-of-all-trades in both film and TV. What's more our guest Niall Cassin has worked...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min
This week we're travelling from feudal Japan to the surface of the sun with the career of Hiroyuki Sanada. Sanada began acting at the age of six, rapidly fulfilling his childhood dream as an action star. After a slew of samurai films in the 1970s he went west to Hong Kong to star in martial arts films like Ninja in the Dragon's Den and In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors. He became a well-respected actor in genre circles in the west after his performance in the 1999 J-Horror Ring. Sanada's desir...
Mar 11, 2021•54 min
This week Andrew and Stephen discuss the programme for the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, running from March 3 - 14. They each pick five gems from the line-up to check out. Then, in the second half, Stephen chats to actor and writer Les Martin and director Cathal Nally about their Dublin-set drama-thriller and DIFF highlight Be Good or Be Gone. They talk about the movie's festival homecoming, shooting in the capital and the long road to getting their film made. Andrew's pi...
Feb 25, 2021•40 min
For this bonus episode, Stephen got to speak with Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel - best known for his bone crunching action flick Headshot. He has a new horror out on Shudder now called The Queen of Black Magic, a reimagining of the older cult film of the same name. Kimo talks to Stephen about his approach to remaking a classic, how prevalent black magic is in Indonesia and how streaming services are helping Western audiences discover the country's great genre movies. He also reflects on Hea...
Feb 15, 2021•37 min
Two iconic French women are on the podcast. First time guest, long time I Know That Face editor and filmmaker in her own right Charline Fernandez joins us this week to talk the incomparable Isabelle Huppert. With a career stretching over nearly 50 years Huppert has been a constant in French and world cinema since her BAFTA winning breakthrough performance in La Dentelliere. She has worked in France, America, the Phillipines, South Korea, Italy, Cambodia and Russia with acclaimed directors from M...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr
In this special episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with Dublin based Italian writer-director Chiara Viale about her film The New Music. Now available on VOD, the coming-of-age drama centres on a classically trained pianist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, he embarks on a path of self-discovery which leads him to join a punk band. Chiara tells I Know That Face about the research that went into portraying Young Onset Parkinson's onscreen, what punk means to her, her love of ...
Jan 28, 2021•35 min
It's a whole new year and we've got a whole new episode for you! This week we spoke remotely with special guest and fellow HeadStuff alumnus Mark Conroy about the flourishing career of Bill Camp. Known best as a stage actor throughout the 90s and 2000s, he began to appear in bit parts in films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman in the early 2010s. From 2015 onwards he became a popular player with Jeff Nichols who cast him in Midnight Special and Loving as w...
Jan 14, 2021•52 min
We spend a lot of time on I Know That Face looking back into the past. For our last episode of 2020 we thought it'd be fun to look forward to next year and all the great movies we'll hopefully get to see - from the return of old masters like Paul Verhoeven and Ridley Scott with Benedetta and The Last Duel respectively to younger guns like Sam Levinson with Malcolm & Marie and Olivia Wilde with her sophomore feature Don't Worry Darling. 2021 will also see the resurgence of the erotic thriller...
Dec 31, 2020•39 min
Thanks to the kind folks over at horror streaming service Shudder, I Know That Face co-host Stephen Porzio got to chat with some filmmakers with new projects on the platform. First to be interviewed was indie legend writer-director Larry Fessenden. Known for films like Wendigo and The Last Winter, his latest Depraved is a new take on Frankenstein set in modern day New York. He discusses it, as well as his side-career as a producer and mentor to filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ti West and as ...
Dec 24, 2020•45 min
Another trip around the sun, another best of list. The only difference is you have to listen to this one. This week, to close out a terrible year filled with amazing films, the I Know That Face crew take you through some of their favourites. With Emma, Little Women and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Andrew discovered a hidden love for period dramas. Horror lovers will get their fix as Stephen talks about Host and Saint Maud while Andrew waxes lyrical about The Lighthouse. Those in need of a good cr...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr
As his career has moved through decades and crossed into a new century Willem Dafoe has only become more experimental and varied in his parts as he's aged. This week Stephen and Andrew tackle the vast array of roles he's played from 2000 to the present day. Beginning in 2000 with his Oscar nominated role in Shadow of the Vampire, Dafoe went on to play a second iconic villain as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man. His rarely used comedic talents were put to the test in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic...
Dec 03, 2020•53 min
In this special bonus episode, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with acclaimed documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe about his new film Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist. Now streaming on Shudder, it sees the director of the iconic horror talking about his influences, how the classic movie was put together and his feelings on it now. Here, Alexandre discusses with Stephen his time spent with the legendary Friedkin, what he wanted to do differently with this doc and what’s next for him. S...
Nov 21, 2020•22 min
In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with Catherine S. McMullen, the writer of The Other Lamb. Now streaming on Mubi UK and Ireland, it centres on a girl (Raffey Cassidy - The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Vox Lux) born into an all-female cult led by a man (Michiel Huisman, The Invitation). In the cult’s compound hidden away in the woods, she begins to question his teachings and her own reality. Catherine discusses what inspired her to write the psychological thr...
Nov 19, 2020•27 min
Call us Ishmael, because we've just landed our first white whale! In celebration of our first anniversary we've decided to cover the inestimable Willem Dafoe. Over two episodes we'll be looking at his long, varied screen career with Part One covering his work in the 80s and 90s. From Kathryn Bigelow's biker drama The Loveless to William Friedkin's amoral masterpiece To Live and Die in L.A. Dafoe's early film years were dominated by villains and dirtbags. This changed with Oliver Stone's Platoon ...
Nov 05, 2020•44 min
In their final frightening episode of the Halloween season the I Know That Face crew take a look at the career of the Re-Animator himself: Jeffrey Combs. The actor's big break came in 1985 with Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator in which Combs played the title character. He would return to the role twice more in Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator. He is best known to horror fans for his work in adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's stories such as From Beyond, The Dunwich Horror and Necronomicon in...
Oct 22, 2020•46 min
Steele yourselves as the I Know That Face crew take on the terrifying career of Barbara Steele. The British actress landed her first starring part in the dual role of the innocent Princess Katja and her evil Satanic ancestor Asa in Mario Bava's directorial debut Black Sunday. A string of Italian horror films followed including The Long Hair of Death, Castle of Blood and Terror-Creatures from the Grave, as well as a role in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. She also starred in Roger Corman's Poe adaptati...
Oct 08, 2020•42 min
In this special bonus episode of I Know That Face, we turn our attention to film festivals. First, co-host Stephen Porzio chats to Mia Sherry about her experience representing Ireland at this year's Venice Film Festival as part of the 27 Times Cinema programme. As well as talking about being on the jury of the event's Giornate Degli Autori strand, she discusses attending the first major film festival to take place in person after Covid-19 and seeing some of Venice's big titles this year includin...
Sep 30, 2020•52 min
Gear up for an eerily pleasant listen as we tackle the career of horror heavyweight Donald Pleasence. In our first of three podcasts on horror icons we examine Pleasence's first forays into horror with an episode of The Twilight Zone and the janky UK anthology film Tales That Witness Madness. Best known as Dr Samuel Loomis - a role he'd play four more times - in John Carpenter's Halloween, Pleasence would work with Carpenter twice more in Escape From New York and Prince of Darkness. Along with C...
Sep 24, 2020•45 min
This week the guys are joined by book reviewer and Cold Coffee Press founder James Holohan to talk about the intense performances of Paul Dano. Though still young in white male character actor terms, Dano has amassed an incredible body of work in his two decades in the film industry. His debut in 2002's L.I.E proved to be his breakthrough into indie film and led him to Sundance success in Little Miss Sunshine and a BAFTA nod for Paul Thomas Anderson's oil based western There Will Be Blood. He ha...
Sep 10, 2020•46 min
In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio interviews Rob Savage, co-writer and director of Host - a new horror which is one of the best films of 2020 so far. Now streaming on Shudder, Host was made during Covid lockdown and centres on a group of friends who perform a seance over Zoom. Stephen discusses with Rob the unique making of the movie, the filmmaker's influences and some of his other upcoming projects - including a Sam Raimi produced horror. Host trailer Rob Sava...
Aug 27, 2020•35 min
Caleb Landry Jones is one-of-a-kind and not just because he's the first redhead we've covered. Beginning his career with a one line part in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men he was one of several young stars to be launched from Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. From there Jones took the road less travelled and picked up his first lead in Brandon Cronenberg's 2012 body horror Antiviral. His red hair, pale skin and sharp features secured him roles as disturbed, often sociopathic charact...
Aug 13, 2020•45 min
In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio interviews Irish writer-director Paddy Slattery. His brilliant debut feature Broken Law - telling the tale of two brothers on both sides of the law - will be playing in preview screenings from July 31 before a full nationwide cinema release in Ireland on August 14. The pair discuss the movie, the long journey it took to get made, Paddy's influences, as well as the filmmaker's love of some former I Know That Face subjects. Broken...
Jul 30, 2020•42 min
This week the I Know That Face crew are rejoined by writer, comedian and friend of the podcast Sean Moriarty to talk about the crazy career of South African madman Sharlto Copley. Exploding onto the scene in Neill Blomkamp's 2009 sci-fi apartheid allegory District 9, Copley hasn't slowed down since. Along with his three collaborations with Blomkamp - Elysium and Chappie followed - Copley cemented his Howling Mad reputation in Joe Carnahan's A-Team remake. He varied his choices as the last decade...
Jul 16, 2020•51 min
Bonjour mon ami! This week on I Know That Face we indulge our inner Francophiles with a deep dive into the career of Juliette Binoche following a strand being devoted to her on arthouse streaming service Mubi. Beginning with her English language debut in 1988's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, we compare and contrast Binoche's powerhouse status in France with her supporting roles in American and international productions. Up for discussion are The English Patient, Michael Haneke's Caché, Abbas...
Jul 02, 2020•40 min
This week the I Know That Face crew tackle a titan of Japanese cinema. Ken Watanabe began acting in the late 70s and became widely known throughout Japan for his samurai roles. Beginning with the 1985 classic Tampopo and taking in everything from his work in Tom Cruise's ego project The Last Samurai to Clint Eastwood's sensitive humanistic Letters From Iwo Jima, Watanabe brings a dignified grace to every role he chooses. His presence in western blockbusters like Batman Begins, Inception and both...
Jun 18, 2020•40 min
This week we have no choice but to Stan... field. This week's episode of I Know That Face is all about supporting star Lakeith Stanfield. Beginning with Short Term 12 in 2012 Stanfield made a name for himself as a versatile supporting player over the coming decade. 2017 was a banner year for Stanfield with incredible supporting turns in Jordan Peele's masterpiece Get Out, Netflix's Death Note and Donald Glover's anthology Twin Peaks-esque show Atlanta. His first leading role came in Boots Riley'...
Jun 04, 2020•47 min
We're all about the Wright stuff here at I Know That Face especially when it comes to character actor Jeffrey Wright - best known for his role in The Hunger Games sequels, TV's Westworld as well as CIA agent Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig Bond films. The actor has also supported in numerous under-the-radar films like Ang Lee's war western Ride With The Devil, Michael Mann's sports biopic Ali, geopolitical thriller Syriana and Alaskan-set mystery Hold the Dark, along with in prestige TV series ...
May 21, 2020•47 min
This week on I Know That Face Andrew and Stephen tackle the long, unique career of Jennifer Jason Leigh. An Oscar and Golden Globe nominee for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, Leigh's career spans four decades. She broke out as the Hollywood It Girl in Fast Times at Ridgemont High before rejecting the bright but short career of a Tinsel Town starlet in favour of stranger, meatier roles in smaller films like Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood and opposite Rutger Ha...
May 07, 2020•49 min
