Christopher Abbott on 'Piercing' Role, Working with Mia Wasikowska | Sundance 2018 - video Dailymotion

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Abbott and Wasikowska star along with Laia Costa in the film, directed by Nicolas Pesce.

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00:00All right, you go first.

00:02Oh, like that? Like, me first?

00:04Yeah. All together, right?

00:06That was pretty cool, though.

00:08You should get a trophy for that.

00:10That was better.

00:16To kick things off, we like to start with a chairlift pitch,

00:18so a quick synopsis of the film.

00:20You want to take it away?

00:22Yeah. The movie is about a guy

00:24who has a newborn baby

00:27and is having some dark impulses.

00:29And to sort of quell his dark desires,

00:33he plans what he thinks is the perfect murder,

00:36but the woman who arrives to his hotel room

00:40is not who he expected,

00:42and a game of cat and mouse ensues.

00:45Way over time.

00:48And for the actors, these characters are very complicated.

00:52There's a lot of layers to them,

00:53so I'm wondering how did you come to understand their motivations?

00:57Oh, for me, between Nick's script and the book, there's a lot there.

01:01There's a lot of, and coincidentally, there's a lot of interior monologue

01:05that happens in the book.

01:06So I think that fed a lot of stuff, for me at least.

01:10Yeah, I'm wondering then what was the filming process like?

01:14Do you guys have a particularly memorable day or a moment from set

01:17when you're working in such confined spaces on such a short timetable?

01:21I think the good thing about it was that there were really few locations,

01:25so we'd sort of shoot the film in each location.

01:30And then we just had like, well, it felt like a lot of time,

01:34even though it was like 18 days.

01:36You know, it was like a week or so in each location, so it felt like...

01:40For me, it was weird that when we were doing like daylight,

01:43it was a night, so it was all fake.

01:46And when we are doing night, it was daylight.

01:48So it was like all totally like reversed.

01:51That was something I've never at least seen that much in a shooting.

01:55Tonally, shooting the film felt like what the film is.

01:58And how would you describe the tone?

02:00Pretty strange.

02:02But I think fun and funny, dark, but it's weird.

02:09The story was originally a book,

02:12so I'm wondering what drew you to the book

02:15and what was the choice to make it into a film?

02:18I discovered the author, Rue Murakami,

02:20because he wrote the book that Audition is based on,

02:23the Takashi Miike film, and it's one of my favorite movies.

02:27And I really love his work piercing the novel reads like a movie.

02:33The second I read it, I could see it in my head

02:36and it had a lot of just between the subject matter

02:40but also kind of stylistic things that I wanted to play with.

02:43And yeah, it seemed like a perfect movie for me.

02:45It's going to be funny.

02:46This movie is funny.

02:47This movie is funny.

Christopher Abbott on 'Piercing' Role, Working with Mia Wasikowska | Sundance 2018

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