The burnout that transformed Oscar-winner Emile Sherman’s career
Breakout hits from The King’s Speech to The Power of the Dog have made the world his oyster. Now, Sherman opens up on the deeply personal forces that helped build a powerhouse.
Emile Sherman can pinpoint the moment his approach to making films changed forever. It was 2014. He had just finished producing Tracks, the John Curran-directed adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s memoir of her 2700-kilometre solo trek from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean, accompanied by four camels and a dog.
Starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver, the film chronicled a journey “into one of the world’s last great wildernesses”, as its promotional material memorialises. One that had taught Davidson to “do the impossible: appreciate the joy of true solitude . . . that sometimes we have to detach from the world to feel connected to it”.
