Why ‘Harvest’ Director Athina Rachel Tsangari Included Hiking Boots in the Middle Ages

The Greek filmmaker chats with TheWrap about her new Scottish-set film and the “silly” gender expectations of women directors

Director Athina Rachel Tsangari on the set of "Harvest" (credit: Ian Hassett)
Director Athina Rachel Tsangari on the set of "Harvest" (credit: Ian Hassett)

Athina Rachel Tsangari, the Greek director with roots in New York and Austin, Texas, does not need any convincing when an actor or crew member proposes an offbeat idea.

Her new film “Harvest” is based on Jim Crace’s interior monologue of a novel and set in the unspecified past. It feels like the middle ages, apart from the occasional anachronism. On the ramshackle set in Scotland, most of the characters were wearing wooden clogs, but Tsangari’s lead actor Caleb Landry Jones (best known to audiences as the brother in “Get Out;” he also won a Cannes prize in 2021 for the drama “Nitram”) strolled up in contemporary hiking boots.

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