00:00I mean, when I was a kid, you know, the little girls in The Shining traumatized me and many other things like that.
00:04But now I'm just so aware of it and I'm so inundated by having made so many that it's tough to get scared from a movie.
00:15I want to be special. Dancing up on the screen with the pretty girls in the pictures.
00:22I will not let you leave this farm again.
00:25Really, at the core, it's a movie about a young woman who has a life that she's not happy with and she has hopes and dreams and she wants to see if she can escape that life and fulfill them.
00:37And it was important to me that X had a very specific aesthetic, that Pearl have a very specific aesthetic.
00:41You know, once we started doing it, you know, you think like, can we really go this red with the dress?
00:46Yes. Okay. Well, then we're going to have to go this green with the other thing.
00:50And it just starts snowballing. And it was like a lucid dream going from X and then three weeks later being making Pearl in the same place where everything looked radically different.
00:57It was a once in a lifetime experience for sure.
01:00So I'd read the script of Pearl, which was nuts, a lot like the Technicolor CinemaScope, MGM musical kind of look with these dark, depraved things happening.
01:13It's nuts when you see it up on screen, but it's almost like dirtier when you read it written out in the script.
01:19This entire experience has been very new for me, you know, because I have been a part of and involved with Pearl from its very conception.
01:28Ty reached out to me and messaged me and said he had this idea for a prequel focusing on Pearl in her younger years.
01:34And then we started writing and yeah, kind of snowballed from there.
01:39Ty's first question was, why would you ever want to be a part of a movie like this?
01:42And I just said, that's a great first question.
01:45It showed me that he knew what he had on his hands.
01:48It was kind of exciting for me to come in and like slot into a thing that already existed.
01:53For me, I like to work with people that we're either on the same page or you're not.
01:56And if you're not on the same page, then you just do it on another project.
01:59Like me and I, for instance, clicked right away before X and so then it made sense.
02:02And so making a movie is so crazy and you have never enough time and everything.
02:05And you just want to be able to be like, we're doing and I got it.
02:09And you're like, and that's the vibe I felt in the first two minutes of talking.
02:13You know, I think especially this day and age, the genre of horror has become such an umbrella term
02:19and so much can exist within that.
02:21And it really gives a lot of creative free reign for filmmakers and actors to explore a whole series of themes and characters.
02:31And that's one of the things that makes it so interesting.
02:33I like watching horror films because it shows me how far I've come since I was a kid.
02:39There's something very reassuring to be able to watch those movies now and still have them affect me,
02:46but be able to sort of control it and not let it follow me out of the theater.
02:50So there's a feeling of accomplishment sitting through a horror movie and enjoying it as opposed to kind of like,
02:55you know, enjoying a roller coaster as opposed to being scared of it.
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