Juno was a guest in ‘The Late Night with Stephen Colbert Show’ on the apropos of ‘Fargo’ Season 5. This interview was great, if you haven’t seen it, but have the opportunity, make sure to watch it! It’s also a gold mine of great Juno-expressions:)

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On a side note, if you visit this site or the Gallery and you’re from the EU, make sure to turn on your ADBlocker, because Google ADs have added a GDPR-notification that doesn’t react to anything, so you can’t make it go away, unless you turn on some kind of popup-blocking… Or if you use a VPN.

Three pictures have been uploaded to the Gallery, the first was made in 2014, at the ‘Horns’ UK Premiere event, where Ms. Temple was signing autographs. The second was in 2019, at the premiere of ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’, where a lucky fangirl made this lovely pic. The last also comes from 2019, and it’s a black-and-white portrait taken at the ‘Lost Transmissions’ premiere in New York. Following the pictures is a special interview, where Juno was not the one who answers, but the one who asks the questions! She has interviewed her former ‘Vinyl’ costar Jack Quaid for interviewmagazine.com, and their conversation holds some great pieces of information regarding the interviewer – be sure to check it out after the Read More tag!

Public Appearances > 2014 > “Horns” UK Premiere, 20-10-2014

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Public Appearances > 2019 > ‘Lost Transmissions’ Premiere 04.28. New York

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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.

To read the interview, click the Read More tag!

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These have been piling up for a while now, so let’s read some of Juno’s thoughts! First, she talks about the big screen of movie theaters for Sky News:

Actress Juno Temple says there’s nothing like the big screen.

She told Sky News: “Last year, what an honour, I was asked to be on the jury for Tribeca – we did that all virtually, I think we may have been the first film festival that did it virtually. And that was a bizarre experience as well, because I mean, nothing beats going to the movies – that’s why I’m an actress, you know? And I think that it’s interesting watching films on a smaller screen because they do affect you differently when you’re completely immersed in a room that is designed to take you into that portal that is a film screen.” (Exactly, some movies only have an impact if you watch them in the cinema.)

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Now, here’s an interesting, but quite a long piece about the type of music she liked/likes, the various types of influences on her, and much more from The Guardian (the normal letters are her own words, click the Read More tag to read!):

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There was a short voting on Twitter about this review being made or not, and almost twice as many people voted Yes than No, which is really strange, considering how it was last time with ’Little Birds (Series)’ – and these two projects has similarities.

Can’t say I was excited for ’Palmer’, because just the short summary on imdb suggested that Juno’s role won’t be a major one in it. She’s in a weird position now in the movie industry, because just looking at the tweets regarding her the viewers have overwhelmingly positive opinions about her, no matter what she’s starring in, and yet, she’s showed aside. Of course, it’s obvious why that’s happening, but let’s not get into that, shall we?

Juno and Justin Timberlake (the JTs) have worked together previously on ’Wonder Wheel’, where Ms. Temple shines like a diamond with her beauty and talent. I bet everyone who watched that film loved her character, because she seems so pure and naive, plus she really can’t help causing trouble – it’s not her fault that the guy played by the other JT falls in love with her… Anyway, in ’Palmer’, they are neighbors in a weird way, because Juno’s Shelly lives in a trailer that’s parked ont he lawn next to the house where Justin’s Eddie lives in – as a European, it’s interesting to see that this is possible in the USA. Both of them have troubled lives: Shelly’s a mom, but she doesn’t live with the father of her son; she’s addicted to drugs (this isn’t being shown explicitly) and she’s not at all suited to be a responsible parent. Eddie’s an ex-convict, so he has no job, his reputation isn’t great and aside from the secondary main character, Sam (played by 8-year-old Ryder Allen), nobody trusts him.

In a nutshell, the story is about the adult, who has nothing and the little boy who has nothing either, and they both want something, which they find in each other, and that’s family and friendship. Juno plays the root of conflict here, because even if Shelly’s unsuited to be a parent, she wants to be one; while Palmer is more reliable, responsible and caring, but society seems to think otherwise. (On a side note: What a strange situation, because it’s all about what’s good to the kid, but he himself doesn’t get to say what he wants. And even if he did had a word, it would probably be dismissed, because he’s so young and therefore – according to the laws – unable to make the good decision….)

At the beginning, there’s a really unexpected sex scene between the two JTs, which made me laugh, especially if you consider that they’ve played a couple who’s love cannot be fulfilled in ’Wonder Wheel’. It’s like after four years, Justin just can’t wait any longer:D Then Shelly goes away, and for almost an hour, she’s gone. As long as she stayed, the main female role was split between her and June Squibb (Eddie’s grandmother), then it’s passed on to Alicia Wainwright (Maggie, Sam’s teacher), then it gets back to Juno, when she returns.

Ms. Temple’s two most memorable scenes: When she returns home after weeks of being gone, looking like an undead and when she storms into the courtroom to defend her dysfunctional little family. In the first, she manages to become scary and repulsive, while at the same time she’s still just a mother who missed her child. In the second one, she has her traditional look, kinda like Keeley from ’Ted Lasso’, which is refreshing, and she plays really well. In that scene, it’s hard to decide who you’re cheering on for… (On another side note: I was wondering if Juno’s drastic change in looks was because of this movie, but after watching it, I don’t see it. She still has the same looks and figure as in ’Ted Lasso’, just the lighting and make-up is used to make her look less appealing, but the role itself didn’t required the physical change. There’s something else behind the scenes here…)

In regards to the role of Shelly, this is something that’s not very much associated with Juno. You can find things that are often tied to her (sex scene, troubled young woman), but being a mother is something that she’s never done before – her character dies giving birth in ’Far from the Madding Crowd’ and she’s pregnant at the end of ’The Brass Teapot’, but that’s as close as she got to it so far. The reason why Shelly’s not suited to be a mom is irrelevant here, drugs are a double-edged subject anyway, but despite the fact that there’s like almost no positive aspects of this character, you’ll still going to at least pity her. Shelly’s not a bad person, she’s more like a victim of circumstance. Plus the ending redeems her, because she makes the right decision from Sam’s perspective, even if it means an incredible personal sacrifice.

Overall the story was okay, the music is especially cool, plus the acting was nice – aside from Ms Temple’s performance, I really liked Ms. Wainwright and Ryder Allen too. The whole „transgender” thing’s just a vehicle to get the film done, because it could have worked just as well if Sam would be a typical chubby kid with glasses or a girl. It’s not the main focus of the story, just something to rise it above the audience’s impulse level. Apple Tv has achieved success with it, because according to wikipedia, the weekend where ’Palmer’ premiered gathered the biggest increase in viewership in the „channel’s” history.

’Palmer’ is an okay movie, nothing really spectacular. From the Juno-point-of-view, it’s an unusual piece in her filmography, so it was nice to see her in something (sort of) different for once.

Here you can find our ’Palmer’ Gallery

More interviews with Juno about ‘Lost Transmissions’, this time only texts:

In ‘Lost Transmissions’, Juno Temple plays Hannah, a shy songwriter, who learns that her record producer mentor, Theo (Simon Pegg), is schizophrenic. The film follows Hannah as she takes care of Theo, while navigating the United States’ frustrating healthcare system and trying to keep her songwriting career afloat. 

But for Temple, the most difficult scene of ‘Lost Transmissions’ to film wasn’t one of Hannah’s many breakdowns as she struggled to keep Theo out of harm to himself and others, but the parts where she had to sing live for the camera. “What I think challenge-wise, but not an emotionally grueling moment, was all of the singing stuff because that’s not something I do naturally,” she says. “Singing a song in front of people is really hard. I choked a few times.” 

“I got to sit down and talk to Katharine O’Brien and the first thing I asked her was, “Have you experienced anything like this?” And she said, ‘Yeah. This is actually something I went through with a group of friends with one of our nearest and dearest.’ It was a whole group of friends that experienced this with a friend. So Hannah is an arm, a leg, a toe, a nose from all different people. In my family, I’ve had schizophrenia around me. From a young age, I’ve talked to my mother. My mother is a therapist actually, so she’s an incredible person to talk to about life in general, but also talk about mental illness because she also knows about it on a medical level. I think mental illness is personal to each person. Also their reaction to medication is personal, so it’s one of those things where it’s a never-ending conversation really.

I was quite overwhelmed with the fact that it’s quite easy to get a prescription for something, like an antidepressant or things that people don’t necessarily need to be dependent on it. But when someone actually needs medication for something like schizophrenia, it’s a lot harder to get somebody on that medication. Because it does take a minute to kick in and keeping them in a safe place to let that medication kick in is really complicated. I didn’t know about that here [in the United States]. That was pretty fucking mind-blowing to me. It definitely opened my eyes to that.

I think the film is trying to say, ‘Let’s talk about it. Let’s learn about it.’ Because the more we listen, talk and learn about it, the more we can help people going through it. I think there’s still a lot of parts of the world that think of mental illness as an embarrassing, shameful thing, and it’s not. Do you get ashamed when you get the flu? No. You learn about how to make it better.

The scene that I find the hardest to watch is when Hannah goes to the homeless shelter and Theo is there. I thought Simon was so real in that scene that it really threw me when he looked up at me and he just wasn’t there. There was this appearance he managed to create and that was frightening and heartbreaking. It was one of those things, where I was like, ‘Oh my God. Was that real? Was it not?’ 

There are sounds going around all the time. If you really listen to those sounds, it can really take you to another place. With mental illness and things going around you, things become very heightened and sometimes that can become really frightening. So I think “lost transmissions,” that actual phrase, is about all the signs and sounds that are going around us and if we pay attention to them, they could make us feel mad or they could be teaching us something. It’s a fine line, isn’t it?”

(Editor’s note: This article is written in a way that it doesn’t state clearly who said the whole second part. It must have been Juno, but I didn’t knew her mom is a therapist.)

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Congratulations on the film! How did you get involved in Lost Transmissions?

I got sent the script and I read it and it really effected me, it felt very personal. I thought the characters were so beautifully nuanced and so honest and Simon Pegg was attached before I was and I thought it was going to be such a brilliant role for him because he comes from a background of so much comedy but he’s such a fiercely intelligent human and I also think that most humans, when they’re going through things that are challenging in life, do tend to bring humor into it to get through it and so I thought it was really genius casting and I think he’s pretty amazing in this film. Then, I read the script and I responded immediately, loving it, and I met with Katherine and I just think she’s one of the most truly graceful humans I’ve met in my life, she carries herself with such grace. Yet there’s a huge world of experience in that graceful creature that I found intoxicating and I was really excited to work with. I really am grateful because I think my mind was expanded from this experience.

What is the origin of this story?

It’s something that Katherine  experienced with a friend and I think, that’s what I mean about opening the doors to talk about it, actually, a lot of people battle with mental health issues. One is schizophrenia, one is depression, an eating disorder is a mental illness. You know, I put my hand up and I say, I battle with stuff and I’ve got a lot of family members that have been through all different kinds of mental health issues and I think it’s something that really is important to start talking about because actually if we start talking about it people won’t feel so alienated if they’re going through it. Also, if we start talking about it, people will be more honest about what they’re going through in their own minds, you know? And I don’t think, banish is maybe too extreme of a word, but banish people from everyday life because of their mental health. I think that really needs to start changing.

What are you hoping the audience takes away from Lost Transmissions? 

I hope they are open to learning more about mental health and about what mental health means and what it is to have people that are suffering from mental health issues in your life and actually being something more fluid in open conversation, I think that’s really important and I really hope that people start really talking about it if they see this film.

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And here’s a third interview, but I warn everyone, it’s full of spoilers, because the journalist basically wrote down everything that happens in the movie.