While many people are inspired by their families, seeing Juno Temple gush about her dad’s influence is overwhelmingly heartwarming. “My dad is one of my biggest inspirations ever, and he’s helped with so many decisions and also with my attitude to film-making too,” she told the Independent in 2011. She would love the chance to work alongside her dad, she said. “I hope I get to work with him someday and we can do a movie together, although that’s not on the horizon as he’s doing documentaries at the moment.”
She also thanks her dad for exposing her to film classics and underground flicks, saying without that repertoire as a foundation, she doesn’t think she’d be as successful today. “When you see movies like that as a child it’s like your imagination coming to life dancing on the screen in front of you,” she continued with the interview. Temple believes that it’s vital for actors to watch all sorts of movies, and even “films that you’re, like, ‘I don’t understand what I’m watching but my god that’s extraordinary,’ so that when you read scripts you know what you’ve liked and what you haven’t. I think knowledge is the key to everything in life, you need to take in as much as you can,” she said to the Independent.
