Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
International Disruptors: ‘1917’ & ‘The Good Nurse’ Scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns On Collaborating With Top Creatives & Her Mission To Empower Young Talent Through Her Banner Good Company
deadline.comWelcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies shaking up the offshore marketplace.
This week, we’re talking to Krysty Wilson-Cairns, the Oscar-nominated writer behind films such as 1917, Last Night In Soho and last year’s Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne starrer The Good Nurse.
We sit down with the Scottish talent to talk about how she collaborates with big directors like Sam Mendes and Edgar Wright, her new outfit Good Company and why she plans to pay it forward. If you’re unfamiliar with the word gallus, you haven’t met Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
The Scottish writer uses the colloquial term to describe herself when reflecting on how she got work experience on the popular long-running Scottish detective series Taggart, which was shooting in her Glasgow neighborhood the summer she turned 15. “I had somewhere I had to be,” recalls Wilson-Cairns. “I didn’t know where, but I was in a rush to get there.” Enamored by the day-to-day workings of how stories were made for the screen, Wilson-Cairns kept returning to set (uninvited) each day asking crew members questions and absorbing the bustling work behind the rolling cameras. “Eventually, they said to me, ‘Well, if you’re going to hang around, do you want to get us teas and coffees?” And I said, ‘Of course – no problem.’” It’s this kind of gumption coupled with a virtuosic talent that has propelled Wilson-Cairns into one of the hottest screenwriters in the business right now and has seen her work with heavy hitters like Sam Mendes, Edgar Wright, Tobias Lindholm, John Logan, Darren Aronofsky and now, Taika Waititi (she’s currently co-writing his Star Wars project).
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