‘There is no cure for grief’: Tim Roth on losing his son after making a film about bereavement

People react differently – everyone does – otherwise there would be a cure for it.”View image in fullscreen ‘He was unfazed’ … with son Cormac in Cannes in 2021. In October 2022, a few months after filming wrapped, Roth’s son Cormac died at the age of 25. He was probably wanting to get me out of the house as well,” says Roth, with a wry smile. “The film has such a truth to it because it shows that how you grieve is as individual as a fingerprint,” says Roth. It has incredible history for me.” Left unsaid, in the silence that follows, is the grief etched in that history.