FALLING FOR FIGARO - DANIELLE MACDONALD INTERVIEW

Australian actress Danielle MacDonald is back on the screen and this time around she’s only got Opera on her mind.

From acclaimed director Ben Lewin (The Sessions), FALLING FOR FIGARO is a romantic comedy set in the fierce world of opera singing competitions, starring Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin’, Patti Cake$, Skin) and Joanna Lumley (Me Before You, The Wolf of Wall Street, Absolutely Fabulous) and Hugh Skinner (Fleabag).

Macdonald plays Millie, a brilliant young fund manager, who leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands!

She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley). It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming “Singer of Renown” contest. What begins as a brutal competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more.

The film is loaded with familiar operas featuring music from The Barber Of Seville, The Marriage Of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Romeo And Juliet and La Traviata.

Falling For Figaro was first screened to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival last September as one of 30 titles selected for Toronto’s Industry Selects programme.

Australian director Lewin, whose 2012 film The Sessions won audience awards at Sundance and San Sebastian, also wrote Falling For Figaro with Allen Palmer.

I spoke with Danielle MacDonald about how she prepared for this role and much more in our interview which you can watch below.

FALLING FOR FIGARO is opening Friday, October 1st in select theaters and everywhere you rent movies.