Weapons' Director Loved Our Question About Aunt Gladys' Sickness, But He Had A Good Reason Not To Answer It #shorts

Interview with Zach Cregger

Transcript

00:00And that's how, that's how committed I am to like the ambiguity is as an asset. I believe it

00:04wholly. So I honestly, as the writer and director of the movie, really don't know what's going on

00:10with Gladys. And I think that's great. Well, can you tell me the two options that you gave her?

00:15Not really. No. When Alex is talking to Gladys about like going to a hospital and she says that

00:22a hospital couldn't help her, to what extent is what we're seeing happen to her magic versus the

00:28idea of like a cancer? That's a great question. I love that question. Yeah.

00:34Do you have an answer? I mean, I think it would be such a, such a shame if I answered it. You know

00:39what I mean? Because I, first of all, I don't know the answer, truth be told. And I'm glad I don't,

00:44because I think one of the most compelling things about it is that like, we wonder, you know, I,

00:49I, you can't really pin her down. You don't know what's real with her. And, you know, she's described

00:54as having two different relationships with, with Alex's family that are totally contradictory.

00:59And, and I think that's so fun, you know, like something isn't right here. Something is, is

01:05untrue. And in that case, I mean, when you were talking with, when you were talking with Amy

01:10Madigan and just kind of like get, having heard, like feed into the perspective of the character,

01:15what were the kinds of discussions that you had? Well, I gave her two options, you know, I gave her two,

01:21two very different options for, for what Gladys might, might, might have going on. And I told her

01:26to pick one and don't ever tell me. And.