SEATTLE — After captivating audiences as Queen Elizabeth in “The Crown,” Claire Foy tackles an entirely different challenge in “H Is for Hawk,” adapting Helen Macdonald’s acclaimed memoir about grief and falconry.
The film follows Macdonald’s journey training Mabel, a notoriously difficult goshawk, following her father’s sudden death. For Macdonald, the experience felt “almost mythological, like a trip to the underworld and back.”
Foy found deep resonance in the material, noting the book’s significance among readers who pass it along to others dealing with loss. But portraying a falconer presented unique challenges on set…