Whishaw's latest gear switch takes him to a different world entirely - to New York's East Village in the early 1970s - for "Peter Hujar's Day," having its international premiere in Berlin.
"I was working in Paris with Ben on 'Passages,' and I saw a book in a bookstore called 'Peter Hujar's Day,' and it was a publication of a transcript of a conversation that took place in 1974 ...