'It's What's Inside' Cast Talk Bringing Complicated Script to Life | Sundance 2024 - video Dailymotion

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'It's What's Inside' Director Greg Jardin and stars Brittany O'Grady, Gavin Leatherwood, Reina Hardesty, James Morosini and Devon Terrell stop by The Hollywood Reporter's Park City studio during the Sundance film festival to chat all about their new film and bringing the complicated script to life.

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00:00I also think it's one of those things where you've been to that party where you're like,

00:03I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm kind of down for the ride.

00:06Even when we read the script for the first time, it was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:13You know, I've been pitching it as a sci-fi thriller with jokes,

00:17with a sort of like unique heightened tone.

00:21The sort of whole impetus was like,

00:24what if eight people got together in a house for a party?

00:27And what if this guy that no one has seen shows up with this suitcase?

00:32And then like, what's in the suitcase?

00:33And then stuff gets kind of crazy.

00:35And then I made a lookbook that sort of had a bunch of references,

00:40tonal references, visual references.

00:42Argento's Suspiria was a huge visual reference.

00:45And just tried to kind of articulate what the tone was.

00:50Not sure if I did it properly or not, but try it.

00:54I was so confused when I read the script.

00:57I didn't know what the hell it was happening.

01:00I actually heard that James Conn, I called you and I was like,

01:04can you make heads or tails?

01:05And you're like, no.

01:07We just talked to Greg.

01:08And then once we sat down, I was like, oh, this guy knows what he's doing.

01:11So you need that, you know.

01:13Yeah, I tried to really act like I did when we met.

01:17That reminds me that one, another question I wanted to ask was,

01:21did anyone have like a burning question that they had for Greg during the first meeting

01:27or sit down or conversation?

01:28Yes, but we wouldn't be able to answer given the restraints we've been placed on.

01:33I can kind of say almost every single person, except for one actor, all asked basically,

01:40essentially, like, how are you going to make this script make sense, essentially,

01:44is the question that I was asked.

01:46The one thing that was so clear when speaking to Greg, I think in my process,

01:51I don't know if you guys felt the same way, but when I was speaking with you,

01:54I felt like you created a heightened experience with all the senses.

02:00Even just showing me the music and showing me who you kind of envisioned for each character,

02:05I felt like I could see it come to life.

02:07And that was something that made me want to jump on that train with you.

02:12You have this really special and unique way of creating, I guess,

02:15a very sensual experience for an audience member and for, you know, the actors being in the story.

02:20And that's very unique.

02:22Yeah.

02:23Yeah, I felt good.

02:25I imagine no one here has experienced anything akin to what is in the movie,

02:30but has anyone been on a really crazy friend trip, people in a house situation?

02:37I mean, I guess one thing that's, it's not that crazy,

02:39but like one thing that is relevant to the movie is like the first time I played the game Werewolf,

02:42which actually was an inspiration on the movie.

02:45You know, the game Werewolf is you get a group of people.

02:48One person is the werewolf and they're slowly killing everyone and everyone has to suss out who it is.

02:53I played that game with a bunch of friends a few years ago and it got like so intense

02:58because, you know, like, like, like, you know, people have to lie.

03:01Some people like still aren't talking to each other after that night.

03:04So I guess that was, that's, that's what kind of came to mind when you said that.

03:09But there were no drugs involved.

03:10No.

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