A single location movie is one thing, but a single location movie with only one star? Set entirely inside a moving car? Sounds difficult to say the least, unmarketable at worst, but writer/director Steven Knight is a filmmaker used to big challenges. The writer who took us into the world of illegal immigrants in Dirty Pretty Things and into the Russian underworld in Eastern Promises, takes us into one man's crumbling world in Locke, which happens to star Tom Hardy as the only on-screen character. It's a compelling nocturnal journey of the soul that Knight and Hardy undertake in this film, and there are few other combinations that could have pulled it off.
I had a chance to talk with Knight about Locke; working with Tom Hardy and if he was always the actor he had in mind for the role. Knight also briefly talks about the Eastern Promises 2 script, saying it's better than the first, and whether he can get Hardy for a role.
