00:00When you were filming, did you find yourself kind of being on her side in the storyline?
00:04Yeah, I love that we all like, well, like, you're evil.
00:11Alright, I'm Revae Ruff with Essence. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.
00:15Hey, I love Essence.
00:17Oh, thank you. So, your character, Audrey, she seems, well, she, I guess, is evil, but kind of justified in a way?
00:25When you were filming, did you find yourself kind of being on her side in the storyline?
00:30Yeah, I love that we all like, well, like, you're evil.
00:35Yeah, I guess what I, the way that I justified Audrey is like, they mess with her family at the beginning of the film.
00:42So, someone messes with my kids or anything like that.
00:45Like, yeah, they'll get the villain in me for sure.
00:47Mama Bear's coming out.
00:49So, I guess that was a lot of the justification for me, as well as like, you know, taking up space as a businesswoman.
00:56She's ambitious, a real estate agent really for her family, though, like, for her people.
01:00And, you know, symbolically, California used to be a part of Mexico.
01:05So, like, she's taken back her land, and I felt like really connected to all of those things.
01:10So, yeah, I justified it for sure.
01:12Yes.
01:13I think in the movie, I was like, I wonder what it says about me that I'm kind of on her side with this one.
01:16How were you able to get into the mode of playing somebody, like you said, so powerful, such a powerful businesswoman who's working for her people this way?
01:23Like, how were you able to get into that mind frame?
01:24Yeah, I think the physical aspect of it, like the literally just every day all we had was training and training and training and training and lifting weights and hitting and, you know, stunts and all of that stuff.
01:36And that really just got the power, you know, that power, confidence in me.
01:41And then also just watching, you know, animals eating their prey.
01:44That's all JJ would show me is like animals eating their prey.
01:47But to me, it was more about, you know, Mama Bear comes out when her kids are messed with.
01:51So that, for me, was what really brought out that, like, power and need to, you know, make things right.
01:58So this being an all-star cast, Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, and yourself, what was the filming experience like?
02:04It was so much fun.
02:05We had a blast.
02:08We took a little bit to start filming.
02:11So we were all just like, please, because it was COVID and it was all this stuff and we hadn't really met in person.
02:16So once filming started and Jamie just has, like, such a, so much energy.
02:22He's the best number one that I've ever worked with.
02:25Just had, like, all of the generosity in the world.
02:28So much punch to everything.
02:30Wanted to, like, improvise and allow, you know, there was a few, all the Spanish.
02:36He was, like, loving that I was putting in all of the Spanish and really making the character my own and really wanted us to, even, like, the end sequence.
02:43I heard someone telling him, like, hey, what do you want the line to be?
02:46And he's like, go ask Carla.
02:47And I overheard that.
02:48I was like, that's cool.
02:50Like, you know, like, just a really awesome guy who just trusts his coworkers to do the best job that they can and knows, like, how to set up, set us up for success.
03:00And that was just lovely to, almost, like, to want to, like, take, you know, and be like, that's cool.
03:07Now, one thing with vampires especially, there's a lot of lore.
03:10There's a lot of, oh, they're allergic to this or this kills them or this makes them stronger.
03:15What was one thing about, at least uniquely to this movie, vampire lore that you didn't know before that you thought was interesting that you learned?
03:21So, JJ had me.
03:23He was like, vampires don't breathe.
03:24I'm like, uh, how am I going to do it?
03:27They're like, they don't blink.
03:29They don't cry.
03:29They don't, you know, you can't be tired if you run.
03:32And I'm like, whoa, there's, like, so much, you know, or I don't know if I was wearing silver and I couldn't wear silver.
03:38It had to be gold and, like, all this stuff.
03:40I did watch all of the vampire, you know, not all, but a lot of, you know, the vampire movies to get that.
03:49But it was, yeah, it was daunting because there's a lot of rules, a lot of things.
03:55So, ultimately, what I think Day Shift has that's different is that the fangs are sold in a black market and you can get them.
04:02And so, like, if you hunt a vampire, the fangs will, you know, you can cash them in for some money.
04:07And so, I think that's the newness of how to make it, like, the blue collar, you know, kind of, like, a guy trying to get ahead in the world.
04:16And they connected him into, like, the night shift of it all, which brings in more money.
04:21So, that's why I think Day Shift is different in that sense.
04:26All right.
04:26Thank you so much for your time today.
04:28You too.
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