00:00Something's not right, man. Get it through your head!
00:15You don't know what you just did. It's the only thing holding his soul at rest.
00:19Give it back!
00:20You can't! He's awake now!
00:25What are you waiting for?
00:27We're right here!
00:30No, no, no. He was like, I remember he's like, I have to put her in.
00:39I have to have her playing that character because the story you were telling was sort of reflective in certain ways of Vicky and looking back.
00:48It was really meta and existential, he said, which I'm not sure if he ever discussed that with you.
00:54But that's that's what I heard at the Q&A.
00:58No, I had no idea. Oh, my gosh. I feel honored that he said that. Wow.
01:03Well, because if you look at that monologue, you look at what the whole spot your character has in the film.
01:11I want to give too much away, but it it really it's that whole monologue says so much.
01:18And it sort of encapsulates the dread that sometimes horror films can really do.
01:24Can you talk about jumping into something like this, obviously, with your your experience before and seeing?
01:31Because, you know, there's such a love of the genre, but it's all always about, you know, what what is coming for me?
01:38What is the possibility? Could you talk about it? I didn't mean to talk so much right there.
01:43No, it's great to hear someone else's take on it.
01:47I mean, it was it was I really didn't know what to expect.
01:51I was sent the script and of course, you know, I read throughout the entire script and I went, oh, OK.
01:57You know, but I read it as a Friday the 13th actress.
02:01I was reading it like music and, you know, all that type of stuff.
02:08And Chris doesn't do that. It's very deliberate, very quiet.
02:14And you're just moving through the woods with this character, not knowing what's going to happen next,
02:21because there's no music to foreshadow his actions and his steps, except his steps.
02:28That's what really, you know, I'll tell you, that creeps me out because I do trail running in the woods.
02:33I live near a huge state park system, thousands and thousands of miles of trails.
02:38And I was telling someone, I said, you know, I've never thought anything of it.
02:43But now if I hear crunching of leaves, I look around, it's a chipmunk this big, you know, a little two inch chipmunk.
02:49I think that's two inches. I don't know. But anyway, so it's a different experience.
02:54But the monologue that Chris wrote, I was just so absorbed when I first read it.
03:03I thought, oh, first of all, I was like, oh, my God, how am I going to memorize all these lines?
03:08It's that shot. It's that shot just doing that, too.
03:12Oh, well, that's the other thing is because I was actually driving the truck with the cameras here, here, here and here.
03:23I was focused on the driving. So it helped with the interpretation that Chris wanted for the character.
03:32You know, it helped make it sound like, oh, you know what? I've seen this.
03:36This happened to this person. This is what it feels like.
03:40It's just every day for her. I don't want to give anything away either.
03:45But it was it was an interesting choice to say, hey, Lauren, the flatbed truck makes too much noise.
03:51Can you actually drive and deliver the words? And I just went, oh, yeah, sure.
03:56Got it.
04:26What the. Story, I remember sitting on because you're all you're waiting for the shoe to drop.
04:53You're waiting for Chris to have something. And yet the whole point of it is to create that notion of what if, you know, with with you.
05:01I mean, did you have to did you try to look at anything? What the story meant?
05:05Was it just sort of how did you have any conception of that or did he explain it?
05:12I have a wonderful imagination. OK.
05:16I have a I have a very active inner life in my brain. I'm all maybe from being from New York.
05:23I don't know what. But every situation that I'm in, there's a different scenario, an alternate universe, if you will.
05:31There's an old Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk and Mr.
05:34Spock and Dr. McCoy, they go into an alternate universe where there are evil twins.
05:39Mirror, mirror. Yeah. Yes. Yes. You know it.
05:43So that's how I view life. I see everything as an alternative universe.
05:48And when I was reading that, I just imagined, you know, what did that feel like?
05:55What did that sound like? How did she feel when she learned about this happening?
06:02So when I sat down with Chris and he gave me his interpretation of what he wanted for the woman,
06:10I had to scale back my overactive imagination, you know, and just peel away at it and just become very.
06:20I'm not monotone and not one note, but just very calm about what the information I am imparting to my passenger.
06:31I don't know. You know, but it's interesting because she could be you in another life, another universe, you know,
06:40and that's what's sort of really great about it, because Vicki as a character in part two, she was very empathetic.
06:47I mean, the way she interacted with her best friend and all that.
06:51And yet this woman could could be Vicki all the way, which when she's much older and she's been hardened by life.
06:59There's so many different interpretations.
07:01And I tell you, I actually said to Chris and we were done filming.
07:06I said, you know, there are some conspiracy theories out there because at the end of part two, when you see Jason's lair,
07:13you don't see Vicki's body lined up with the other ones.
07:17So I said, wouldn't it be funny if, you know, the the community, our beautiful horror community,
07:23wouldn't it be funny if they thought, wait a minute, that could be Vicki.
07:26That could be her. She doesn't have a name.
07:31So she's probably a Vicki type. But yeah, I mean, she's empathetic.
07:35Also, the woman is very empathetic. But she's also telling this really graphic story and describing some pretty graphic stuff.
07:44I don't want to give anything away, though. No, it's good.
07:48People need to see it. It's it's something to be experienced. So, Lauren, thank you so much.
07:52I mean, it was an experience watching it, but the reaction is so visceral, you know,
07:57which you're seeing visceral because you're like, well, it's going to happen.
08:00So, awesome. Thank you very much. Wonderful talking to you.
08:03Thank you for having me.
08:15Animals don't get too hung up on reason.
08:18They just keep killing.
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