“I think they did shape my perspective on the world in a lot of ways, specifically The English Patient. And then Ripley he made when I was 13, and it was the same thing.” These were an adolescent Max Minghella’s alternative to reruns. So it was two years of watching the dailies to that movie and then watching 50 cuts of it. “My dad made The English Patient when I was 10. “It’s taken me a long time to understand this,” he says of his prolonged childhood exposure to love stories. And there was the young, cinema-mad Max sitting on the living room sofa, absorbing everything. His father, the late British director Anthony Minghella, made grand romantic dramas like Cold Mountain and The English Patient. Minghella surmises that this enduring romanticism is an outcome of nurture. It suits me to play a character like him.” And it’s quite fortunate for me personally, because I’m not a massively sort of intellectual person in my real life. It wasn’t clear that this is what the character would turn into. “But I like that stuff, right? In the pilot, I think Nick only had a handful of lines. “I know this is not the answer you want to hear,” Minghella says with none of Nick’s hesitation. I ask Minghella about playing the series’ closest approximation to a dreamy male lead against the show’s dark narrative of female subjugation. In a Season 1 episode featuring child separation and hospital infant abduction, Nick’s major contribution is to trade stolen glances with a sex slave while “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” pumps discordantly along. In airless Gilead, of course, a cautious hand graze with Elisabeth Moss’ June can pass for a big romantic gesture. Minghella, who at 35 has dozens of screen credits to his name, is best known as The Handmaid’s Tale’s cunning chauffeur Nick Blaine, a character who it’s difficult to imagine saying sweetheart. “You okay, sweetheart?” he asks - the dog, not me - tenderly. Max Minghella is sitting in his backyard in the LA sunshine, his t-shirt an homage to the French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, his adopted shepherd mix, Rhye, excited by the approach of a package courier.
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