Interview by Paul Salfen, Text by Christine Thompson|AMFM Magazine
Paul Salfen sits with writer-director Paul Greengrass and Andrew Garfield as The Uprising heads into theaters nationwide on September 11. Greengrass’s first true historical epic — the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, told through a nameless Essex farmer — was built for spectacle. What the pair keep circling is the feeling underneath it: a tax table, a crisis of faith after plague, and a line the Ploughman throws at the collectors. “We’ve given you enough.” Garfield says the script woke his soul up. Greengrass says the more he wrote, the more 1381 sounded like today.
