Hermione Eyre

Mike Leigh interview: ‘A guy in the Guardian wants to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!’

Hermione Eyre talks to the filmmaker about Turner, Hollywood and making films his own way

Timothy Spall as the eponymous painter in Mike Leigh’s new film ‘Mr Turner’. [Getty Images]

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