‘Mission’ Stars George MacKay and Rosy McEwen on Capitalism, Creative Freedom and the Eternal Allure of British Independent Film

The English actors have big-budget studio projects on their slate — including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Scarpetta' and the 'Ocean's Eleven' prequel — so what tempted them onto Paul Wright's Edinburgh-premiering indie?

For Scottish director Paul Wright, “Mission” began with a feeling. “For the first time with a film I’ve made, it was kind of tapping into a feeling,” he tells Variety. “More so than plot or story, it was just that feeling that some of us get sometimes of feeling maybe disconnected from the world and…