a few months later, he finds his attacker preston, played by george mackay, in a gay sauna and plots short movie, also called femme, that its two british directors made a couple of years ago. they had a clear vision of the feature they wanted to make. it's an amazing movie. where did the concept come and how long has it taken to bring to the big screen? originally, we kind of came up with the idea in 2020, didn't we? yeah, we did. we werejust... we've been friends for a long time. we lived together for three years and kind of had wanted to work together for a while. and we were having a real kick on sort of neo noir, late night thrillers. safdie brothers, nicolas winding refn, kind of classic scorsese. and we just sort of had this feeling that it was a boys' club that we didn't quite have access to, as queer creatives. but femme infiltrates that space superbly, helped by nathan stewart—jarrett and george mackay�*s performances — mackay is well known for his part in the sam mendes war drama 1917. preston is a different interpretation of masculinity for the actor to transform into, par