Felicity Jones didn’t realize she wanted to play a moon.

“People really underestimate fun,” begins the Oscar-nominated actress, whose upcoming performance in Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero is a whimsical and joyous departure from her recent portrayals on screen (see: The Brutalist and Train Dreams ). “The most powerful stories are often the most entertaining,” she continues. “Julia has managed to do that amazing trick of combining those things, which is a very, very difficult thing to pull off.”

Ahead of this past Friday’s release of Jackman’s sophomore feature film, the director and her stars Felicity Jones and Maika Monroe sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to unpack the making of 100 Nights , a visually stunning fantasy set in a fairytale kingdom and adapted from Is

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