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00:00Down is about two strangers who end up in an elevator over a long weekend, a long Valentine's
00:12weekend and the elevator suddenly stops underground in the parking structure and they may not
00:19be able to get out until Tuesday when the building reopens.
00:25I was drawn to this story because it presented this awesome creative challenge which was these
00:31highly psychological characters with incredibly diverse and complicated values and beliefs
00:42stuck in this tiny space together and it's sort of my favorite type of storytelling kind
00:48of on steroids because I love character driven pieces, I love highly psychological characters
00:55and to take those two elements and mash them into these long scenes with no breaks where
01:01it's just two people kind of getting inside of one another.
01:05That felt like a really exciting challenge and the confinement of it and the pressure that
01:10goes with that so I knew it was going to end up being explosive.
01:15From my characters point of view being able to sort of justify these actions or what drives
01:22me to shut such extremes, such seemingly irrational reactions to what I'm experiencing.
01:32And I just thought it was, I thought this character presented a really intimidating, a really intimidatingly
01:42tall order to take on so that was all it took.
01:48Also I knew that Natalie had the offer and I leapt at an opportunity to work with her again
01:53and I also love a bunch of the individuals over at Blumhouse and I was eager to team up
01:57with them again so it was kind of a perfect fit.
02:01The advantages of shooting in one tight space, I mean it presents unique challenges and the
02:10advantages are all the things I love most about conversations between characters which is
02:15just like two people just getting it on, getting into it, getting into the deep and heavy stuff.
02:22But then the unique challenges that come from the confinement of the set are how do we shoot
02:28this from scene to scene, how do we do something different?
02:31How do we keep it engaging?
02:32How do we use movement or camera angles or how do we create variety in the sort of intensity
02:44from scene to scene?
02:46So those were wonderful creative challenges that I think the director Daniel Stamm did an
02:54incredible job mapping out for us and creating diversity and variety and so and you know I
03:04don't know I think you know Natalie joked with me before before we started she's like dude we're
03:09going to be locked in an elevator for three weeks it's going to get it's going to get weird and I
03:12was like yeah totally so it was it was super fun I mean I don't know it was a ton of fun I'd do it again.
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