00:00 I also think it's one of those things where you've been to that party where you're like,
00:03 "I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm kind of down for the ride."
00:06 Even for when we read the script for the first time, it was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."
00:09 I've been pitching it as a sci-fi thriller with jokes, with a sort of unique heightened tone.
00:20 The whole impetus was like, "What if eight people got together in a house for a party?"
00:27 And what if this guy that no one had seen shows up with this suitcase,
00:32 and then what's in the suitcase? And then stuff gets kind of crazy.
00:35 And then I made a lookbook that had a bunch of references, tonal references, visual references.
00:41 Argento Suspiria was a huge visual reference. And just tried to articulate what the tone was.
00:50 Not sure if I did it properly or not, but I tried.
00:54 I was so confused when I read the script. I didn't know what the hell it was.
00:59 I actually heard that James Corden, I called you and I was like, "Can you make heads or tails?"
01:05 We just talked to Greg. And then once we sat down, I was like, "Oh, this guy knows what he's doing."
01:11 And you need that.
01:13 Yeah, I tried to really act like I did when we met.
01:17 That reminds me that another question I wanted to ask was,
01:20 did anyone have a burning question that they had for Greg during the first meeting or sit-down or conversation?
01:28 Yes, but we wouldn't be able to answer given the restraints we've been placed on him.
01:34 I can kind of say almost every single person, except for one actor, all asked basically,
01:40 essentially, "How are you going to make this script make sense?"
01:43 Essentially, is the question that I was asked.
01:46 And the one thing that was so clear when speaking to Greg, I think in my process,
01:51 I don't know if you guys felt the same way, but when I was speaking with you,
01:54 I felt like you created a heightened experience with all the senses.
02:00 Even just showing me the music and showing me who you kind of envisioned for each character,
02:04 I felt like I could see it come to life.
02:07 And that was something that made me want to jump on that train with you.
02:12 You have this really special and unique way of creating, I guess, a very sensual experience for an audience member
02:17 and for the actors being in the story.
02:20 And that's very unique.
02:21 Yeah.
02:22 I imagine no one here has experienced anything akin to what is in the movie,
02:30 but has anyone been on a really crazy friend trip, people in a house situation?
02:36 I mean, I guess one thing that's...
02:38 It's not that crazy, but one thing that is relevant to the movie is
02:41 the first time I played the game Werewolf, which actually was an inspiration on the movie.
02:44 The game Werewolf is you get a group of people,
02:48 one person is the werewolf and they're slowly killing everyone and everyone has to suss out who it is.
02:53 I played that game with a bunch of friends a few years ago and it got so intense.
02:58 Because people have to lie.
03:01 Some people still aren't talking to each other after that night.
03:04 So I guess that's what kind of came to mind when you said that.
03:09 But there were no drugs involved.
03:10 No.
03:11 To my knowledge.
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