‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the emergency op that inspired his new sci-fi horror

‘I didn’t make a fuss about it because I’m like a superhero’ … Refn, whose new film is called Her Private Hell. ‘I didn’t make a fuss about it because I’m like a superhero’ … Refn, whose new film is called Her Private Hell. Movies Interview ‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror Tim Jonze Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth