Cary Fukunaga Poses for Interview Magazine, Chats with Michael Moore

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Published December 4, 2015

Cary Fukunaga photographed for Interview magazine.Pin
Cary Fukunaga photographed for Interview magazine.

Director Cary Fukunaga is in the hot seat as he’s featured in Interview magazine’s most recent issue. Fukunaga connects with fashion photographer Sebastian Kim for moody black & white portraits. Sitting down to talk with director Michael Moore, Fukunaga discusses his initial interest in making movies. He shares, “I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14, about these two brothers in the Civil War. I tried to make movies with my friends, but it was impossible because no one cared as much as I did. And I sort of went away from it for a while in high school and college, when I was pursuing sports and school and, I guess, girls.”

Cary Fukunaga poses for a black & white portrait, commissioned for Interview magazine.Pin
Cary Fukunaga poses for a black & white portrait, commissioned for Interview magazine.

Transitioning from snowboarding to directing almost seemed fated. Fukunaga recalls, “And sometime around 20, 21 years old, I was in France and had blown out my knee. I couldn’t compete for a couple of months, and I didn’t want to just sit around doing nothing, so I got back into theater actually. I did a play in France, and I started writing again. I think that’s probably when it really started—going into my senior year of college and deciding that I wanted to make movies.” Read more on InterviewMagazine.com.

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