Nerve
editor Peter Smith got to sit down with directors Garth Jennings and Nick
Goldsmith. The duo made a name for themselves helming music videos for Blur,
Pulp and R.E.M….not to mention a little film called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Their latest, Son
of Rambow, “follows schoolboy Will (newcomer Bill Milner, an instantly
endearing tangle of scrawny limbs), raised by his mother in a conservative
religious sect, the Plymouth Brethren. His upbringing has kept him away from
all media, so when his troublemaking classmate Lee Carter shows him a bootleg
copy of Sylvester Stallone's First Blood,
his world is forever changed, and he and Lee Carter set off to make their own First Blood sequel — Son of Rambow."
The guys talk rehearsal, Rambo, and storytelling rapture, right
here.