In her latest incarnation, Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk returns as Hollywood’s least informed person in Charlie Brooker’s latest mockumentary for Netflix and the BBC, Cnk at the cinema.
The funny actor is completely beside himself sitting across from director Michael Bay, actor Benedict Cumberbatch, composer Daniel Pemberton and, in all, 23 Hollywood experts as Cunk comically probes the origins of the big screen.
“When you try to get inside a character, which hole do you go in through, north or south?” Cunk asks an angry Cumberbatch at one point in a trailer Cunk at the cinema. “Those are, uh… weird questions,” an equally baffled Bay responds in another interview conducted by Morgan’s clueless interviewer/commentator persona.
That’s apparently the point, since the six-part program Cunk at the cinema which debuts November 15, also puts filmmakers like Mark Cousins and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey in the spotlight, as well as a host of highly decorated film critics and academics.
“Cunk will try to demystify it all, sitting on lumpy seats with stale popcorn, wondering where cinema comes from? And why? What does he want? And why can’t he tell us? a Netflix synopsis says the documentary-style series promises to cover the entire spectrum of cinema from the invention of the camera to the introduction of AI tools in filmmaking.
Jim Al-Khalili and Ashley Jackson also return after their collaborations on Cunk about life And Asshole on Earth. Cunk at the cinema, directed by Al Campbell, is a Pacesetter production for the BBC, with Netflix to broadcast the series outside the UK and Ireland.
Brooker is joined in the writers’ room by Ben Caudell, Erika Ehler, Eli Goldstone, Jason Hazeley, Dan Maier, Morgan, Joel Morris, Michael Odewale, Kali Varghese and Sam Ward. Brooker also shares executive producer credits with Jessica Rhoades, Morgan and Ward.
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