Film Courage: How many hours do you write every day?
Emrhys Cooper, Writer/Director/Actor/Producer: At the moment not enough. I’m waiting for my next strike of inspiration to happen quite honestly because my life has been unfortunately there’s a lot of admin still going on with The Shuroo Process. We’re starting a podcast in the new year and as I’ve said my process of writing is once I’ve decided on the next thing I’m going to write I will probably take two or three months off or longer to write it but I’m not quite there yet. We’re still promoting The Shuroo Process. Idyllwild Pictures is my production company. We’ve just recently sold a podcast called Historical Homos with Zachary Quinto: Around the World in 80 Gays because a lot of history has been straight-washed and it’s going to be really, really interesting. We’re doing 48 episodes with Stitcher so that’s something I’m heavily involved with as a producer and that’ll be really fun. We’re going to be doing that next year. We’ve got three or four other films on our slate that I’m producing, but I haven’t actually figured out what my next directing job will be. But I’m okay with that. I don’t want to push that because it’s so challenging directing that I have to really want to do it and I’m waiting for that story to bubble up. But I do think next year it’s going to come. I already have some ideas I just haven’t committed to them yet and I think I’d like to finish this The Shuroo Process journey which we’re so close to finishing and maybe take a bit of time to decompress and then figure out what story I’m burning to tell.
Film Courage: Was that something you were aware of is how much waiting you would be doing when you came here in 2008…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
A native of Devon, England, Emrhys Cooper is an award-winning director, writer, producer and actor based in Los Angeles. He has enjoyed on-screen success in Person of Interest, Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY and the film Mamma Mia! He soon ventured into the world of production, which included such accomplishments as the romantic comedy Walk a Mile in My Pradas (Amazon Prime Video) and the dramedy Til We Meet Again (Netflix/Amazon Prime Video). In 2017, Cooper starred in and spearheaded the most widely-released Bhutanese film of all time, Kushuthara: Pattern of Love. Early 2018 marked Cooper’s directorial debut with the critically acclaimed LGBT short film, Trophy Boy [Cannes Film Festival Official Selection 2018], which is in development as a television series. Cooper now serves as a writer, producer, director and actor on The Shuroo Process, executive produced by Zachary Quinto and starring Rainey Qualley, Tommy Dorfman and Fiona Dourif, which is set to hit the 2021 festival circuit. As President of his newly founded independent entertainment company, Idyllwild Pictures, Emrhys aims to explore the unexplored in the film industry by directing and producing films that focus on thought provoking topics in today’s society. Up next, he’ll be seen in Gravitas Ventures’ dark comedy Paint, as well as Samuel Goldwyn’s recently announced horror thriller, Dreamcatcher.
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