Getting work certainly doesn’t seem to be a problem for Juno Temple. At 24, the pixie-like daughter of filmmaker Julien Temple and producer Amanda Pirie, has already been involved in around 30 movies, ranging from independent projects including Kaboom, Killer Joe and Afternoon Delight to blockbusters such as The Dark Knight Rises and Disney’s forthcoming epic Maleficent.

Inauspiciously, her father excised her first performance from his 1998 film, Vigo: A Passion for Life, although she made the final cut of his next movie, Pandaemonium. ‘As a child, getting to do films like that was just a great excuse to be around my dad,’ says Juno. ‘He was away for a lot of my childhood and I missed him, so that was always an exciting prospect.’

When she was 14, she told her parents she wanted to be an actress. ‘They were both pretty nervous about it. They went, “Really? Shit.”’ They were worried how she’d cope with rejection. ‘I still call my mum or dad in tears about not getting jobs,’ she admits. ‘I’m so invested in this that it really hurts when I don’t get a job I really want. And then it is extreme jubilation when I do.’

Her father, who’s known for his music documentaries including The Filth and the Fury about the Sex Pistols; The Future is Unwritten on Clash front man Joe Strummer; and Oil City Confidential, the story of Essex’s Dr Feelgood, told her to never compromise herself. ‘He said to me, “Don’t do anything unless you’re passionate about it. Just don’t. Whether it’s five months or five minutes of your time, just don’t do anything that you aren’t going to be passionate about every second that you’re doing it.” And so I really, really stick with that.’

This commitment is evident on screen. In her latest release, Magic Magic, she throws herself fully into the role of a fragile young American who experiences some kind of mental breakdown during a trip to Chile. ‘It was definitely a role that I don’t think you could be half-arsed about,’ says Juno. ‘You had to not be afraid and just go for it.’

She used to find it difficult to separate herself from her characters and suggests that doing Magic Magic that way could have been damaging. ‘God knows where I would be. I could have lost my mind and I could be anywhere right now.’ The turning point came when she worked with the director Joe Wright on Atonement. ‘He told me that you don’t have to fuck yourself up to bring tears on camera. You can get too involved with a character and that was a major piece of advice that I took away with me. I think as I have gotten older, I have got much better at letting go of a character when I finish the movie.’

Ultimately, it’s essential to remain grounded, she says. ‘It’s so important that you go back to reality and be with your best friends and with your family. I love film and I love acting but it’s about the work for me. And this is work for me. It’s a job. I don’t want it to be my entire life.’

Magic Magic is released Fri 18 Apr.

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The person who made the photos for one of my favorite-ever Juno-shoots has posted 2 outtakes last year, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of these wonderful pics. So, here they’re, followed by a tiny text, which contains the words of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who’s talking about working with Juno (the upcoming ‘Wolfboy’ animated series will be the third project that features both of them!):

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Juno Temple have a long professional history together, and fans are always delighted when they see the duo take on another project together. Between both of them appearing in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’  in 2012, to their more recent work on the sadly canceled series, ‘Mr. Corman’, they go way back.

Now, fans can hear them appear in another project, via the magic of voice acting, on the Apple TV+ series, ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’. While Gordon-Levitt voices the purple bearded wizard Luxcraft, Temple makes a guest appearance as the spirit Nyx. Of course, their work on ‘Mr. Corman’ made Gordon-Levitt think of her for the role. During an exclusive Looper interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the actor dished on what it was like having Juno Temple cameo on ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’:

Oh, so she plays this spirit of chaos called Nyx, and when we were trying to figure out who would play it, I had just finished shooting with her on ‘Mr. Corman.’ And I said, ‘I think Juno would be perfect for this, and I bet she would do it.’ And I was really, really grateful that when I called her up, she was game, and her performance is so good.

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A little bit of everything in this post, first a very nice video from 2018, where Juno was the announcer of BAFTAs Rising Star Award – the very award that she herself has won in 2013! Following up are three amateur photos from a big Q&A event about ‘Ted Lasso’, that happened 12 days ago at a premiere of Season 2’s Episode 1, and at the end, there’s an edited version of a tiny interview she gave recently, regarding this series again:

Public Appearances > 2021 > Ted Lasso Season 2 Premiere 07.17.

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We hope everyone had a pleasant Christmas! As an after-holiday gift, we bring you new Juno Temple pictures! The first one is a throwback to 2015, it was made at the premiere of ‘Meadowland’. The second one is a tiny teaser from a televised interview, which is – as you could probably guess – about ‘Dirty John’. Last, but definetly not least, more high quality promotional photos from the aforementioned series! And, after the More tag, you can read two tiny interviews about Ms. Temple’s character, Veronica Newell.

Public Appearances  >  2015  >  ‘Meadowland’ New York Premiere

Television  >  (2019) Dirty John  >  Television Interviews

Television  >  (2019) Dirty John  >  Exclusive Promotional Photos

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First, as always, let’s see the new pictures! We have a very cute promotional image from the ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’ (I’ll try to get screencaps from this); and photos from an upcoming film, called ‘Lost Transmissions’. I have already talked a bit about this, but now it’s clear, this will be a full length feature movie.

Television  >  (2018) Last Call with Carson Daly  >  Promo Pictures

Films  >  (2018) Lost Transmissions  >  On Set

Films  >  (2018) Lost Transmissions  >  Wrap Party

And here comes another piece of news:

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Juno gave an interview to the British Evening Standard because of her recent venture into science-fiction. It’s also a little recap about her life and career:

Juno Temple is exhibiting remarkable focus. In a make-up chair, in a portable cabin, clad in tracksuit bottoms and a green plastic smock, the actress is discussing her fears about climate change while three people peel back layers of prosthetics from her face.

“This took four-and-a-half hours to create,” says Temple, aged 28. Shortly before, I watched her slice open a carefully constructed prosthetic head to camera. “It’s so badass,” she enthuses, gleeful with the graphic gore of it all. “If you’re not prepared to go balls-to-the-wall with something then don’t sign on in the first place.”

It’s a hot, humid night in a field outside Chicago, where the London-born Temple is wrapping up filming on Autofac, an episode in the anthology series ‘Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams’, to be broadcast on Channel 4 next Monday.

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