‘I Don't Have A Backup Plan’: How 'MaXXXine’s' Director Pulled Off A Shoot At One Of Cinema’s Most Iconic Locations - video Dailymotion

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04/09/2024

Interview with Moses Sumney, Ti West, Giancarlo Espositio

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00:00It's not just an ode to horror cinema of the 20th century,

00:04but just all cinema.

00:05You have so many different references from

00:07Giallo to Chinatown to Blade Runner.

00:10I'm curious just kind of how much of that was first draft design

00:13versus like how much kind of came organically as the film came together.

00:16Most of it was probably in the scripts.

00:18I mean, I think to set the third movie in Hollywood

00:20and to take it as far as we took it in scope-wise,

00:24you know, this trilogy is sort of about cinema in a way.

00:26It's about a lot of things, but one thing is about,

00:29you know, if in X they're trying to make a movie

00:31and it's what it's like to make a low-budget movie

00:32and be outside of the system and outside of Hollywood,

00:35but still be able to try to carve your own path via movies.

00:38And then Pearl is someone who's sort of looking to the screen

00:41as a hopeful thing and how her life could be different

00:43if only she had a life like in the movies and the glamour.

00:46And then now in Maxine, she's actually here.

00:48She's in the belly of the beast.

00:50And, you know, I just wanted to embrace that to its fullest.

00:54Were there any ideas that you had that you weren't able to kind of use?

00:57I mean, you get to use, like, the Bates Hotel, the Psycho House.

01:01We were very fortunate that, even today, I still think about that

01:05because we had to get Universal to say okay, which they did,

01:07and then we had to get the Hitchcock Estate to say okay.

01:09And it was in the script.

01:10So I remember it was the first thing, Jacob Jaffe, the producer,

01:13that was the first task because I was like,

01:15I don't have a backup plan.

01:16There's not a better location that we could go to and talk about.

01:20And because we referenced that in X,

01:22it was such a payoff to come all the way back around and be there.

01:25And, you know, credit to both of them.

01:28And it was very surreal to shoot there and to photograph it

01:30and to not be making Psycho but to be photographing it.

01:33It was very surreal.

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