

(Minghella also has a half-sister, Hannah Minghella, who is now a film executive.) Yes, technically, it was London, but that’s not how it seemed. He grew up in South Hill Park overlooking Hampstead Heath in London with his father and mother, the choreographer Carolyn Choa. Ripley, playing an uncredited Confederate soldier role in Cold Mountain, and tooling around with a Super-8 camera Matt Damon gave him, he insists his upbringing was normal. Though Minghella spent his childhood on the set of The Talented Mr. Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Max at the 2004 Golden Globes with his mother Caroline Choa and late father Anthony. “And Max has his gorgeous, sensitive, open-minded soul.” “Anthony is one the kindest, most beautiful men that I've ever had the privilege of working with before,” Fagbenle says. Minghella’s co-star O-T Fagbenle, who plays June’s other lover from before the time of Gilead, got his first job acting in Anthony Minghella’s romantic crime film Breaking and Entering. That was a complicated love story, and I wonder sometimes how much it's affected my psychology.” “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.
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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 OK, sweetheart?” he asks - the dog, not me - tenderly. sunshine, his T-shirt an homage to the French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love, his adopted shepherd mix, Rhye, excited by the approach of a package courier. Max Minghella is sitting in his backyard in the L.A.
