00:26This is Tim Walsberg from Fast Track Unstruck TV.
00:29I'm here in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest film.
00:32Well, it's an interesting one because the audience has a conduit in this film that is, you know, purer than
00:39any other conduit you get in any films because the camera is the character.
00:45Like, so it's about sort of figuring out that history and what has informed all of Sean's decisions and why
00:55he's doing these things.
00:56And then as that unfolds throughout the story, you discover more and more about his past, what happened between him
01:03and his father and Lily.
01:05It sort of opens up that history that the audience is now experiencing.
01:12That is their history because they are the character.
01:15They are the camera, which is a great way of doing it.
01:18I don't think it's been done like that before.
01:20You must see something.
01:22Are you okay?
01:25The nightmares again, Sean.
01:28I'm so sorry to hear about your sister.
01:30Could you talk about the empathetic nature of your character and how that sort of plays through and how she
01:37acts, how she reacts, how you see her?
01:41I think Grace is very much the driving force within the relationship.
01:47Sean, to begin with, is quite reticent.
01:50He doesn't really want, he's pushed, he has to be pushed into making these decisions.
01:55So that's like a major role that Grace plays in their relationship, unfortunately for Sean.
02:00Sean, but she wants to heal the fracturing relationship between them.
02:06So she pushes him to deal with his grief.
02:10And I think that comes very much from her deeply empathetic nature as a nurse.
02:16She cares very much for Sean.
02:19And in terms of trying to convey this in a POV sort of setting,
02:26it was really interesting because obviously the characters, sorry, the audience, they don't see Sean.
02:34They experience him.
02:35So in order to really connect with what he's feeling and how he comes across,
02:42Grace and the other characters on screen have to be quite reactive to him.
02:49So there's a lot of connection back to the camera, back to Sean,
02:53in order to really give the audiences a full understanding of what Sean is going through.
03:00You're completely dancing with a character and you're on and you have to be present for the entire time.
03:05There are scenes that are, what, six to seven minutes long.
03:09So there's no chance for you to just drop off.
03:13So everything is a reaction in the moment and it has to be real in order for people to be
03:25able to buy it.
03:25Because if you don't, if it's anticipated or anything, you can see.
03:31Like audiences are just so incredibly smart, right?
03:34And you're there front and centre, eyeballing the camera, eyeballing the character of Sean,
03:40which the audience is experiencing.
03:44So, yeah, like I think it was very challenging in order to, challenging to do that.
03:49But as an actor, it was so rewarding because it's like it was, like it was theatre, theatre filmed.
03:57Why are we here?
03:58Dragging him out here searching for his piece of shit, dad.
04:06Would you talk about how you needed to see her in regards to Sean?
04:12Yeah, I think when you read any character off a script, you can't judge them.
04:18So you can't see her as like, oh, she's like evil.
04:20She's like on the dark side.
04:22You kind of have to see like all these different, like you said, layers to her.
04:26And she's a very complicated character in the sense that Richard like described her as like,
04:32she's like an alien to this world.
04:34Like, you know, she's not human, but she's trying to be.
04:37So she has all these different things.
04:38And I would show that through like all these different movements.
04:42And then also kind of like in a sense of being like robotic almost, you know.
04:48And yeah, I feel like moving her head.
04:51Yeah, I would do a lot of like blank stares and then like a little bit of like twitching in
04:55the eyes.
04:56It's quite unnatural.
04:57And you'd see her smiling a lot, which I smile a lot.
05:00But like she does it frequently.
05:04And then, yeah, her connection to Sean is very important.
05:07Obviously, it's the brother and sister relationship.
05:10And Sean, I think, has this very like, yeah, like maternal side towards her.
05:16The way she plays it, it's very unexpected when she does get emotional.
05:21And I feel like it cuts through because there's one sense of this thing trying to be human.
05:28And then all of a sudden there's, oh, it's thinking back to like the worst things.
05:35And you can see it's there's a basis of there's something vulnerable there.
05:40And that's very like that layers it well.
06:07And you can see it's there's something vulnerable.
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