00:00...e' gozzi, hit me with the claw...
00:01...yeah, hit me with the claw, right?
00:03...yeah!
00:04...which is like...
00:04...ah, ok, back to reality, come on, knock me out now!
00:22...um, Federico Hasgottomuiblair...
00:25...from adolescence to goodboy Steven,
00:28...and you seem to be interested in...
00:30...at this time in your career...
00:32...in youth education of the new generations...
00:34...that seem to be guideless.
00:36What do you think about that?
00:37That's a great question.
00:40Personally, look, I...
00:42...I was a youth once, do you know what I mean?
00:45...um, and so I sought guidance...
00:49...and I sought inspiration.
00:51So I think I come from a place of trying to have a look at that...
00:54...and say, what is that available for the youth today?
00:58Do you know what I mean?
00:59...um, and it's kind of...
01:01...and bringing it back to this film, that's kind of like...
01:03...trying to fill that void, that vacuous void of...
01:06...what is it?
01:07...something that the spirit and the soul cries out for.
01:10Those years are so...
01:11...they're not informative years, you know what I mean?
01:13...from the age of, what do they say?
01:14...give me a child when he's seven and I'll show you the man.
01:16So after that, after that childhood, that's a huge journey.
01:21That's kind of the informative years where we construct a character...
01:24...that we take on for the rest of our lives.
01:26...um, and people are, and I was saying this before...
01:29...people are extremely quick to chastise the youth.
01:31And I don't think that's the way to go about it.
01:33I think it's the way to go about it to try and inspire the youth.
01:36Do you know what I mean?
01:38And let them find the things for themselves that will re-educate them.
01:44Let them tell us what they need and what they want.
01:47Do you know what I mean?
01:48But also let us provide that.
01:50And I said this earlier on, but youth centres to me are a big key.
01:53You know, youth centres and places of culture.
01:55Like I said earlier on, if you give a child that kind of...
01:59If you empower them to be a member of their community,
02:03then they will be responsible for their community.
02:05And that can only start internally, do you know what I mean?
02:08And it starts in the schools, in the homes,
02:10and I think the government has a massive part to play in that.
02:13Personally, that's just my opinion.
02:15And plus I'm a dad.
02:16So I've got 20 years of good dad, do you know what I mean?
02:19So that's what I can bring to the table with these characters.
02:23Yeah.
02:24Anson, you keep playing difficult and very angry young boys.
02:30This character that is also the victim but also the executioner in this story,
02:37was more painful to play both sides and that helped you learn better,
02:44understand better both sides of the line?
02:47Great question.
02:48I definitely learnt a lot playing this character.
02:50Yeah, because if you look at it in really broad terms,
02:54the character at the beginning is totally different to the character at the end.
02:56So it was really an interesting exercise as an actor,
02:59trying to navigate that journey.
03:01And it was really what I felt was my biggest responsibility going into this job,
03:06was trying to do justice that concept.
03:08Because I knew it was not going to be easy.
03:11So hopefully I did it, I don't know.
03:12But I really wanted to sell that concept and make it believable
03:17that someone could go through that transition
03:19and not just have one scene in the middle of the film
03:21where all of a sudden he's a different person.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Because it was really nuanced.
03:25There was lots of push and pull factors.
03:27There's a couple of moments in the film where he's really complying with the family
03:31and he's taking part in all the family activities
03:33and then there's a moment where he just thinks, wait, no, this isn't normal.
03:36So I wanted the light and shade to always be in there.
03:39Yeah, you say, I've coincidentally played two quite naughty young lads recently.
03:43So I guess I'll try and find someone a bit more light-hearted next time.
03:46One of my favourite moments in the entire film is where we go on a picnic.
03:51Yeah.
03:52For his birthday, which isn't his birthday.
03:55And we take him out and he's playing with the little fella, do you know what I mean?
04:01And there's that kind of real moment of being a brother
04:04and that kind of concept which he has no idea of being an older brother.
04:08But for that little moment, he's playing with that young lad
04:11and he's involved and he's interacting in a wonderful way
04:14where he's never had that experience before.
04:16He's never interacted like that before.
04:18And then it's kind of like, at the end of that sequence,
04:21which again is my favourite bit in the whole thing,
04:24he goes, hit me with the chloro.
04:26Yeah, hit me with the chloro.
04:27Hit me with the chloro.
04:28Which is like, okay, back to reality, come on, knock me out now then.
04:32Yeah, yeah.
04:33Which is amazing.
04:33I think it's brilliant.
04:34It's like a painting, that picnic scene in the...
04:38Beautifully shot, isn't it?
04:40Yeah, yeah.
04:40The landscape's gorgeous.
04:42The movie is a thriller, but it's also a family drama.
04:45But in a way, do you think it's also a horror?
04:48Because horror nowadays is very human.
04:51We don't need the supernatural things to talk about these days.
04:57I've thought about this a lot, what genre our film is.
05:00And it's so...
05:01Because it also...
05:02When we were filming it, obviously, you're playing the truth of the scene,
05:05and there was nothing funny about what we were doing.
05:07We knew it was absurd, of course,
05:09but when you've got a chain around your neck
05:11and you're talking about the difficult subject matters
05:13that they're discussing in the basement,
05:15there was nothing funny about it.
05:16And then when we watch it back with audiences,
05:18there's kind of an absurdist humour to it.
05:21So it goes through all these different genres, doesn't it?
05:24Yeah.
05:24Yeah, it really does.
05:25I think you're right.
05:26I think there's elements of...
05:27I wouldn't say it was a classic kind of horror film,
05:30but like you said these days,
05:31I think that line has moved as well.
05:33Do you know what I mean?
05:34So it could be perceived as a horror in the same respect
05:36as it's a psychological kind of view
05:40on what the human condition is.
05:43Do you know what I mean?
05:44Yeah, absolutely.
05:46Chris has nicknames for all the members of his family,
05:49like Princess, like Sunshine.
05:52What nicknames do you think define better your characters,
05:55Chris and Tommy?
05:56Hmm.
05:58I wouldn't say Tommy's a ray of sunshine.
06:00Certainly not at the start of the film.
06:03I don't know.
06:05It's an interesting question.
06:07If you had to give your character a nickname,
06:09what would it be?
06:10I don't know.
06:11Well, Tommy would have a nickname for himself
06:13that I definitely can't say in an interview,
06:15so I'll leave that to all of your imaginations.
06:18I don't think good dad and good boy are appropriate before.
06:22Probably not.
06:23Probably not, no.
06:25Okay.
06:26My last question.
06:27It's really wrong what the family is doing to Tommy,
06:31even for good reasons.
06:34But do you think in a way this movie wants to tell us
06:38that desperate times call for desperate measures,
06:41especially what we were talking about before,
06:45about the guidelines of youth generation,
06:48that they need to be educated in some ways?
06:52I see what you're saying,
06:53and I get where your question is coming from.
06:55But personally, no.
06:57Because I don't feel like any kind of violence
07:01or that kind of corporal punishment in any way, shape or form
07:05is the way to go.
07:07Personally, I would like to always believe I'm more of a pacifist
07:10and communication is key.
07:11I think the heart can be reached more than the fists can reach anything.
07:16Do you know what I mean?
07:17Personally, that's just my opinion.
07:20But I do feel like there's kind of, you know, the youth have,
07:24like I said earlier on, they're losing their way,
07:27but I don't feel it's their fault.
07:29I feel it's, in many ways, it's the older generation in certain ways
07:35because we're very, like I said,
07:36we're very quick to point the finger and chastise
07:38and we're not too quick to praise.
07:40You know what I mean?
07:41Basically.
07:42I think.
07:43Thank you so much.
07:44Thank you.
07:45Thank you very much.
07:45We'll see you again.
07:47Take care.
07:47See you soon.
08:05Bye.
08:06Bye.
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