“For whatever impatient aggression I have, it’s now balanced out with a more patient chill,” says Darren Aronofsky, sipping water in the junket carousel, very much from the David Cronenberg school of directors where a reputation as a Lord of Cinematic Darkness is off-set by an in-person mild-mannered charm. The Brooklyn-born 53-year old, who has a child with his ex-wife Rachel Weisz, has reason to be a contented man.
His latest film, The Whale, produced by hip production house of the day A24, has been a surprise box office hit in the States (for an adult drama) and is set to do the same here. Pondering why, he says, “It’s been a long time since there’s been a film out theatrically where you can go and have a good cry.”
