Director Trey Edward Shults Talks Working With The Weeknd on 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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At the 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' premiere, Trey Edward Shults chats with THR and describes working with The Weeknd, calling the film one of the best collaborations of his career. Plus, he shares what he learned about The Weeknd while working with him on this film.

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00:00How would you describe the collaboration process between you and Abel in order to get this film off the ground?

00:05Yeah, smooth and organic and beautiful.

00:08The smoothest process that I've ever had getting a film made.

00:13Like basically, we didn't know each other.

00:15We met in October.

00:17He had an idea for a movie.

00:18I dug the idea.

00:20I got really like the most inspired I had been since writing my movie prior.

00:25There was like several years prior to that.

00:27So October, November we have an outline, December we have a script, February we're shooting a movie.

00:33Like that never happens.

00:35And this is coming after like two years of like trying to develop stuff and just not getting a green light.

00:40So for me, the whole thing felt, I'm like an energy guy.

00:44Like I believe in kismet and being connected to someone.

00:47And so it just felt organic and kismet and connected and really smooth and beautiful.

00:52One of the best collaborations of my life.

00:53For sure.

00:54And of course he's this, you know, big persona.

00:56He's so creative.

00:57But what's something new that you learned about him that you didn't know before by working with him so closely?

01:02I mean, the most obvious to me is just the kind of person he is.

01:06Like I think, you know, I went into our first meeting not thinking it would lead to anything.

01:12Having no clue if I'd even connect to the guy.

01:14Like thinking of this persona of the weekend.

01:16But once I met him, he's like a sweet boy from Toronto.

01:19He's like sweet and polite and a great human being and I love him.

01:23So there's all of that.

01:25And then eventually like the proof is in the pudding.

01:27So like it's one thing to have one meeting and feel that way.

01:30But then to go through the process of like two years of making a movie together.

01:34And him like emboldening me with any risks, anything and having my back with every phase of this movie.

01:42It was just truly, truly a beautiful, beautiful experience.

01:46Yeah.

01:46And I know Jenna also said this is unlike anything that she had ever tackled before.

01:51So what were those and if there were any film influences that you turned to in order to bring this to life?

01:57Yeah.

01:57So at the beginning, it was just an idea.

02:00And we were both inspired and bouncing back and forth.

02:03And then an outline formed.

02:04And then we started kicking around like, oh, it's a little bit of persona.

02:07It's a little bit of Raging Bull.

02:08I see a little bit of Purple Rain in the wall.

02:11I see a little bit of Jacob's Ladder.

02:12I see a little bit of Perfect Blue.

02:13The list goes on and on.

02:15A little bit of addition, you know.

02:16But it was kind of all of those movies.

02:19But no one certain dominant thing.

02:22What was exciting to us is that it felt like we were doing something different and new.

02:26That to grasp, to like say what it is, you'd have to like pull on all these different influences.

02:32And be like it's kind of like a combination of these different things.

02:35And that was really exciting to me because my favorite kind of movies are movies I watch them.

02:39And I'm like, whoa, I haven't quite seen anything like that before, you know.

02:42And what would you say is your favorite weekend song off this album?

02:47Off this album?

02:49I love the album.

02:51I love so many.

02:52I probably still go, I go without a warning.

02:55Without a warning.

02:55Because I have a, I think it's a phenomenal song.

02:58And I have a personal attachment to it.

02:59And I, you know, I got to hear its first iteration with no lyrics, no Able singing.

03:03Just a beat that his cousin made.

03:05And yeah, I love that song.

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