Some made sourdough, some learned to knit.Empire of Light, starring Olivia Colman, Michael Ward and Colin Firth, is a 1980s period drama set in a cinema in a small coastal English town.
Olivia Colman plays the lead Hilary, a duty manager at the Empire Cinema who lives alone and struggles with depression. "It's very important that that is not the case and that everybody is open about friends who are suffering with it, people who are suffering with it themselves, to talk openly and to get rid of this horrible shame attached to it all."Olivia Colman says the way director and screenwriter Sam Mendes described the character was surprising.