Fest Track On Sirk TV Film Interview: TERRESTRIAL [Fantasia Film Festival 2025 - Montreal, Canada - Virtual] - Part II - video Dailymotion

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Actor Jermaine Fowler talks to Fest Track  about motivation, tone and approach in regards to the world premiere of his film "Terrestrial" playing the Cheval Noir section of the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec.

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00:00I've always felt like there's some people

00:29who kind of need to be handheld in a way

00:32to see a perspective.

00:33And there are people who are eager to see the perspective,

00:37which is why I think it's great to have villains

00:41or bad guys, so to speak, who are more full

00:44and more, every villain thinks they're the hero

00:48in their own story, right?

00:49And that's why I think some of the best movies

00:51have a dynamic and layered antagonists.

00:57You look at the Joker, again, for him, it's strange

01:02because he doesn't really have a solid backstory,

01:05but he's so passionate about what he's saying

01:08and his philosophy is so ingrained in him

01:12that you want to hear him talk again.

01:15You want to see him.

01:16You don't really, I mean, there are people

01:18who even rooted for him because his perspective

01:20was, come on, you know?

01:24I've always felt like that's how you know

01:25you have a good film is when every character

01:27is spoken for and the perspective is very solid.

01:31So I think this does a great job from not just Alan,

01:33but from all the, you know, my co-stars

01:37to everything, even behind the camera,

01:42every department felt like they had something

01:45they connected to with the story

01:47that they wanted to kind of leave an imprint,

01:50you know, from art department to music

01:52to the editing.

01:53Like, I think everyone had something

01:54they wanted to say

01:57and that they wanted to leave behind for this film.

02:00So I think that's why it's connecting

02:02with a lot of people.

02:04The Vox, they are native to one of Neptune's moons.

02:13They come to Earth in secret

02:14and they choose when to be seen

02:16and they choose when to remain hidden.

02:19For years, they lived in the periphery,

02:21observing us, testing us,

02:23trying to determine who has the greatest potential.

02:27But it's seldom the one that you think.

02:29Could you talk about the logic

02:30versus the emotion of it?

02:31Because there's a scene with you

02:33and Brendan, for example,

02:34where basically you're like,

02:36I get it, but why?

02:38You know, and you see the logic

02:40and emotion of the situation.

02:42You see Alan thinking us through,

02:44like, what do I do to get through this?

02:47Could you talk about that logic

02:49and emotion within the character?

02:50I just remember when we were filming those scenes,

02:55when it comes to Alan,

03:02logic was outweighed.

03:04I'm sorry, excuse me.

03:05I think when we did those scenes,

03:06it felt like for Alan,

03:09the emotion outweighed the logic.

03:11He was so desperate and ashamed of his own life

03:15that he still felt he can get away with this.

03:19There was still something in him.

03:21He was like, I got this.

03:24I can still, and that, again,

03:26it's all logic has gone out the window with this guy.

03:29And that's because he's just so desperate

03:32to keep this lie going.

03:37And I think it just goes to show you

03:40how much he did not,

03:43how much being embarrassed was going to affect him

03:47and how long he's been just wanting to be successful

03:55and also prove people wrong.

03:58I think all those things kept him from being

04:03just rational, all those things.

04:09And it ends up being tragic.

04:11And that's honestly, that's reality for him.

04:15That's life.

04:16In one of the novels, it's this janitor from Indiana.

04:20He's a fucking loser.

04:22I know about it.

04:23But the Vox Dees, they see greatness in it.

04:27When they're ready,

04:28they will shepherd the Chosen Ones away

04:30into a transport vessel

04:31where they went into a greater Vox Dees consciousness

04:33called the Vox Electus.

04:38My last question to you

04:40is the fact that, like,

04:42obviously you've done a lot of comedy.

04:45You know, well, Brendan,

04:46everybody in this film, a lot of them,

04:48could you talk about the finding the humor

04:51in the darkness?

04:53Obviously, Steve can find that

04:55and you can find that.

04:56But can you talk about that balance?

04:57Like, there's a scene in the kitchen,

04:59which there's a funny part of it,

05:01but there's also something so dark about it.

05:04Yeah.

05:04Honestly, I don't think...

05:06I can't speak for everybody,

05:07but I honestly didn't approach this film

05:11with a comedic point of view at all.

05:16I didn't set out to want to make people laugh at all.

05:19I don't think Steve wanted to either.

05:21In fact, the situation is tragic.

05:26And again, that's a part of comedy.

05:28That's a part of my favorite comedy.

05:30Tragic comedy.

05:31Yeah, you're right.

05:32It starts with the awful thing

05:33that you can think of.

05:35But a comedian's perverse filter

05:37turns it into something that people laugh at

05:40because it pokes at something

05:41people are really feeling deep down.

05:44And I don't think we really...

05:45There are zero jokes in the movie.

05:47No, I know.

05:48No, it's uncomfortable.

05:49It's awkwardness.

05:50That's what makes it...

05:51It's awful.

05:53And I think that's why movies like Fargo

05:55and...

05:57I got to put Fargo up there.

05:59I think Fargo is probably...

06:00I love Burn After Reading, by the way.

06:02It's one of my favorite, like...

06:03But again, there's no jokes in it.

06:04It's all situationally...

06:05It just makes you uncomfortable.

06:08It's really beautiful.

06:11So they're like...

06:14The good guys?

06:25It's personality, though.

06:27Yeah.

06:27When you see that happen to Brad Pitt.

06:29Yeah.

06:29You're just like...

06:30It's not funny, but it's just sort of...

06:32Why did that happen?

06:33But it happens when you...

06:35You can truly execute that well

06:37when you set up the stakes.

06:39And once you set that up,

06:44you can go anywhere you want to go.

06:45And this movie goes a lot of places.

06:47So I think...

06:49I don't think...

06:50I think every actor in the film

06:52do have comedic chops.

06:54But I don't think they approached it

06:56as like, this is funny.

06:58This is going to make...

06:58I think we all approached it honestly.

07:00And what came out of it

07:02was something people really

07:05just kind of reacted to.

07:08Whether it was cringy,

07:10whether it was like...

07:11I heard gasps in the theater.

07:12I heard laughing.

07:13Every emotion I think we hit

07:15during that rollercoaster ride.

07:17But I would say it's only because

07:18we approached it the most honest...

07:21Just honestly.

07:30Apparently I....

07:32that's...

07:34maybe it's just one of us

07:35that, uh...

07:36or of the lip

07:39I'd like or have to...

07:40When were done.

07:41Had any..

07:42with you,

07:43I have no doubt about the...

07:45I would?

07:46If I'm not a felt drawer.

07:47You mean that

07:48what if you hardest hit?

07:49Lass gaming multiplayer then?

07:49In this film...

07:51where you can see when...

07:51I'm getting held in touch.

07:52And so you guys...

07:53by you doing all I can...

07:53play left...

07:55And I have no idea

07:58this movie.

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