Screen Shot 2013-10-08 at 01.02.29Having spoken to Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan about their masterfully devised, naturalistic characters in Le Week-end, we then had the great pleasure of sitting down with the film’s director Roger Michell, and the creator himself, writer Hanif Kureishi.

The pair – who have now worked together four times – discuss their working relationship, and how elements of that dynamic was put into the characters of Nick and Meg. They also talk about the naturalistic elements, and whether or not the characters are based on anybody they know…