00:05Hi, I'm Damiano Panattoni from Italy, MoviePlayer. Hi, nice to see you.
00:09Hi, nice to meet you.
00:11So, in the beginning, for me Primus is not only a horror movie, it's also a story about family, loneliness.
00:19What do you think?
00:21Well, for me personally, you know, my character likes this house that's extremely quiet to focus on my writing.
00:28Because my character is a father who works as a writer and has a pet, a pet chimpanzee named Ben.
00:34And so, my character really likes the quiet. It doesn't matter if it's noisy or not, I just want to
00:39focus on writing my books.
00:40And so, when my family visits, they visit a safe place that is in the country, it's not in the
00:46big city.
00:46And so, I kind of, my character thrives in that type of loneliness. Does that make sense to you?
00:51Yeah, Panjani?
00:52Yeah, I definitely think the story is about family and loneliness.
00:56I think Lucy is going through a lot at the beginning of the film already because of the loss of
01:03her mom.
01:04And coming back to a family dynamic that, you know, isn't necessarily perfect.
01:09And so, the horror is just another added layer of, you know, journey that they all have to go on.
01:17But I think that at the core of it, it really is about a family kind of being able to
01:22come back together too.
01:24We empathize with Ben, and I ask you, empathy is very rare nowadays. Do you agree?
01:33Empathy.
01:36Yeah.
01:43Yeah.
01:51Yeah, I feel like you have to have empathy for, you have this love for this family pet, and then
01:57he starts to fade away because his sickness begins to influence him.
02:00And so, that being that you loved begins to fade away.
02:05But there's an understanding. It's like this lost love, and then Ben isn't himself anymore.
02:11And then we have this empathy of going through this situation with a being that we really care about, and
02:17there's no way to solve this situation.
02:19And so, my daughter and I, you know, as a responsible father, I have to be responsible for the safety
02:23of my family and protect them.
02:25And so, I'm sure if you're a father yourself, you may have an empathy for my character if you happen
02:29to have kids.
02:30Yeah.
02:31I also think that empathy plays a really significant part in Lucy's character as well.
02:38I think that something I always felt was really important for Lucy was that she never lost empathy for Ben.
02:45And I think you can really feel that she still has hope that he will somehow come back to normal,
02:51even at the end.
02:53But at a certain point, I think she also has to find empathy for her family to, you know, do
02:59the right things, you know?
03:01What was the first thing that the director asked you for the role, for Johnny and Troy?
03:08What was the thing he asked us?
03:13I remember there was a scene that we were shooting together. It was an early scene where we were discussing,
03:17we wanted dad to spend time with his kids.
03:22And so, we had a little bit of improv. So, I was kind of improv-ing with Johnny, who was
03:26flirting with this guy, Nick, and kind of teasing her a little bit.
03:30And so, it was a bit of improv and then the director liked it and gave the editor some options.
03:35You know, where your face is heating up and I'm like, oh, you got to cool down. You know, improv
03:39like that, that we were able to play around with.
03:41And that helped to build the trust and the chemistry, I think.
03:43And people always laugh at that part too, which I'm like, I love that. Because your signing is so funny.
03:52Yeah, I think what was great about Johannes is he just really allowed so...
03:58You could just bring whatever you wanted to the table. Like, you could really bring anything you wanted to the
04:03table. Always.
04:04Like, he was really open to any ideas. He sat down with all the actors when we first got to
04:09London and just said,
04:11whatever you want to do, bring it to the table. Like, all ideas are fair, you know.
04:16So, that was really liberating as an actor to have the opportunity just to really bring whatever you wanted to
04:23the role.
04:25In the end, what scared you most nowadays?
04:28What scares you the most?
04:30What scares you the most?
04:32In general? Like, in the...
04:34Yep, yep, yep.
04:35Oh, God.
04:39I'm scared of spiders in real life. I'm horrified. I'm just terrified of spiders. If I see a spider, I
04:46have to leave the room.
04:47But the thing as far as horror movies by John Carpenter, that was one of my first scary movies that
04:53really, really frightened me.
04:55I will always stand by being afraid of ghosts.
04:59I think that that was actually what was nice about doing Primate, is I could go home and not be
05:04worried that there was going to be, like, a ghost in my apartment.
05:07I, like, I knew that there wasn't going to be a chimp, right? I was always aware that I was
05:12going to be okay when I got home.
05:14I can't say that about ghosts. I don't know.
05:18Thank you for your time. Thank you.
05:19I'm glad I'm deaf. I don't have to hear ghosts whispering at night.
05:23Oh, so creepy.
05:25Bye-bye.
05:26That's funny. Thank you.
05:27Bye.
05:28Bye.
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