Hen Chat: Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga

Cary Fukunaga: morning pooper?

Sin Nombre is an awesome film about gangs and immigrants and guns and Mexico and boys with tattoos and girls without tattoos, and trains and Honduras, and although it’s about really very serious stuff it’s not like, “oh my god, I know this is important but really does there have to be so much talking?” No sir, it’s proper exciting. It deserves for the people in charge of handing out shiny objects in exchange for good films to hand a lot of them to director Cary Fukunaga. There’s a grown up review over behind this link and a grown up interview behind this link, but you’re sure as sausages not on this site to be grown up, so here are some answers he gave me when I met him this week and asked six imporatant questions.

The Romantic Hen: What was the last romantic thing you did?

Cary Fukunaga: The last romantic thing I did… is this going to be published?

RH: In the most minor way possible.

CF: God, I don’t know whether what I do is romantic or just a way to try and ingratiate myself with girls.

RH: What was the last ingratiating thing you did?

CF: Can we come back to this one?

RH: Sure. What’s your favourite colour?

CF: Blue

RH: Can you tell me a joke?

CF: Do you know what you call a fish with no eye?

RH: No:

CF: A fsh.

RH: If you had to be buried in one item of clothing, what would you pick?

CF: A beanie.

RH: An actual beanie you own, or a hypothetical beanie?

CF: A hypothetical beanie. I like beanies. But I mean, no one else is seeing me right? I’m being buried. It’d be kind of embarrassing to be buried in your socks.

RH: What’s a good question to ask on a first date?

CF: This is not mine, but a friend’s, but I think it’s great: are you a morning pooper or an evening pooper?

RH: Does he get a lot of second dates?

CF: It worked man, he found his girl, they’re together. If the girl runs away she’s not the right girl.

RH: Ok, so last question, from the top: what was the last thing you did to ingratiate yourself with a girl?

CF: I’d better make up something good. I do do romantic things, I’m just terrible at quick questions. Ok, there was a girl I really liked and I didn’t want to give her just an MP3 mix, so I went onto Ebay and found an old cassette player and blank cassette tapes and I made her an old school mix tape and designed the cover art for it.

Sin Nombre is out 14th August and is recommended by the Romantic Hen.