The acclaimed filmmaker says he is now "fully recovered and fully functional." Acclaimed filmmaker Steve McQueen has revealed for the first time that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago.

Ahead of filming Blitz, the 12 Years a Slave director’s doctors “discovered that I had developed this cancer, this tumor, a small tumor, and therefore obviously caught it very, very, early. I delayed the shoot by two weeks and then had the procedure.”