Kevin Costner, Diane Lane and Lesley Manville spoke to THR about their new dramatic thriller 'Let Him Go.' They opened up about working together, and why they think this film will surprise audiences. 'Let Him Go' hits theaters on Nov. 6.
00:00I saw exactly what I've always felt about Donnie Weeboy.
00:05And I saw that girl can't protect her child.
00:08Margaret Jimmy is her boy.
00:10He's your grandson.
00:12This movie is full of suspense and drama.
00:15What made you want to be a part of this film?
00:18I thought it was one of the best screenplays I've read.
00:20It kind of has everything going for it.
00:23I mean, so much heart.
00:25I mean, you're watching people cope with a tremendous amount of grief and how they process that and different characters handle it different ways.
00:33You know, Kevin Costner, I mean, what can you not say about Kevin?
00:36He's just wonderful.
00:38And we knew that we wanted to work together again.
00:40So because we only had a few minutes in the times that we'd gotten to work together before.
00:46I think movies are at their best when they are surprising us, when they do take us someplace we didn't expect to go.
00:52So, you know, and obviously they can be about so many things, humor and drama, the thing.
00:57But when I read Let Him Go, I didn't really know where it was going.
01:01And when I started to feel it, hopefully the audience will start to feel it.
01:04And it put a lot of dread in me.
01:07But I just kept reading because I couldn't stop watching a couple who were in love and were really going the wrong way.
01:14The character, really, I was very overwhelmed, really, to be asked to come to the States.
01:23Well, we shot it in Calgary, but, you know, play an American woman in an American film.
01:28I do enjoy playing a bad girl.
01:31I mean, it's it's there's something I can't quite put my finger on that makes it terribly nice.
01:37Really enjoyable.
01:38We came to see our grandson.
01:41My boy doesn't have to answer to you.
01:44And we don't have to answer to you.
01:50Whoa.
01:52What was it like starring opposite Kevin Costner in this movie?
01:56A dream come true.
01:57Honestly, I don't think my heart could have handled it if he if he if he'd said no.
02:04You take a big risk on being rejected.
02:05But, you know, nothing risked, nothing gained.
02:08So he said yes.
02:11Well, she's one of our great leading ladies in any in any decade.
02:15You understand why she is a leading lady, because she commands a screen.
02:19She comes in with such a point of view that it's just as easy to play with her against her.
02:26They're two fantastic actors.
02:30Well, you know, the three of us are kind of roughly in the same age territory.
02:34So we've all been doing it for a long time.
02:36So it just felt like, you know, hooking up with some really other experienced actors.
02:42And Kevin was really good at teaching me how to handle guns.
02:47And there I was hitting Diane Lane, obviously not really hitting her.
02:52So it was it was very, a very good time on set and offset lovely as well.
03:00I mean, I could not have been happier.
03:02I kind of didn't want to come home, really.
03:05You're with me on this, right?
03:07Right behind you.
03:09This movie has its fair share of quiet moments, but it also gets really intense.
03:14How did you try to balance all of those emotions?
03:16It was not about balance.
03:18It was about losing balance on purpose.
03:22You know, when you feel the floor open up and it just you feel like you're falling through the center of the earth when things turn violent.
03:30It's not it's it's so shocking that your primal brain hardly knows how to process it.
03:35But it wasn't about balance.
03:37It was about maintaining off balance for quite some time.
03:41Don't start what you can't finish.
03:42This movie is definitely a slow build.
03:46What do you think will surprise people the most about this movie?
03:49Because it keeps its promise, which is this is going to a a place that George is predicting is not good.
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