Congratulations.
I love this film so much.
I watched a couple of days ago and it's still on my mind.
How tricky is this junket going to be?
Trying to keep the secrets.
So it's so check me out.
I've had lots of private conversations about how we're going to tackle this.
Even after our EPK, we were like, What are you going to say?
I don't know what to say to this question.
Yeah, exactly.
But it is you know, I really encourage
audiences to go in blind because that's how I consume scripts.
That's how, you know, I consume the story.
And it just took me on this wild ride.
And I really want that same experience for everybody.
Yeah, it pays off.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
When you were reading the script, were you like,
because I spent the whole time, like, what was that the same for you?
Were you, like, trying to figure out what was going on?
Head of the head of the pages? Yeah.
I mean, every time that I tried to do that, I immediately.
was wrong? Oh, yeah.
This is definitely what's going on...
Yeah.
So there comes a point in the script where you're like, I got to just,
you know, chill and just relax and exactly that.
Yeah. Is it amazing?
You guys have a really great rapport on the on the screen.
Your first scene is so beautiful.
Was that instantaneous?
How did you guys develop that relationship?
I was very intimidated by Brianna, actually.
That's not a joke.
I know it's not. And I just think it's so funny.
She just has you know, she really has this energy about her.
She's a very she's a real professional.
You know,
one of the interviewers said that she is going to be
the one of the biggest movie stars of all time. And I agree with that.
But you feel that from her,
like And so I was like, hmm, am I going to be able to relate to this person
because she's so untouchable and like, like talented, like out of this world.
Talented.
But then I got to know her, and I realized that she's so
relatable and down to earth
and cool and, um, a little neurotic.
And I say macho, but it's true.
I'll say it. I'm a little neurotic.
So we got to spend a lot of time together.
And I think that definitely prepped us
for all those scenes in which we have to trust each other.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think we got really lucky with it being us, too.
Yeah, we.
I mean, just as the first day that we met, I was struck by how open he is
and how how unapologetic he is just in the space that he takes out.
And that really allowed me to do the same.
And it just felt fun and free and curious.
And yeah, it's a great person.
I was so heavily invested in the relationship.
The beginning, I forgot it was a thriller and I was like,
Oh, it's a nice little rom com, whatever you want.
That's exactly right.
It's really So, your character Sandra, has just got so many different facets to her,
and I know we can't
speak a lot about them, but how was it balancing these different sides of her
with the character?
Yeah, I try not to overwhelm myself too much and get too heady with it.
Um, we've talked about this, but as an audience member,
they're going to be anything that they're seeing,
they're going to be seeing genuinely, they're going to be believing it.
And so if there was ever a moment where I felt like,
Oh, I don't know what to do, like, should I play it this way?
Should I play it with this way?
Like going back to the sincerity of it was always a safe place to land.
Yeah.
And just I mean, I made a playlist, so that was helpful to kind of a different
songs were tied to different points in the story.
So that was that was helpful to amazing.
Can you, can you give away any songs that you have?
Yeah. Yeah. Pearls by Shadow
Work Song.
Nina Simone Instructions on Being - Tank in the Bangas
and some other bangers.
Amazing and diversity.
Tom, I feel, is probably the straightest, like, kindest character
in the whole film.
How is it getting into him is so sort of foolish and love, I guess.
Yeah.
I play a lot of characters who are desperate for love and connection,
and so it wasn't that difficult to kind of get into that mindset.
And I'm kind of I'm looking at what the universe is trying to tell me
about my personal life, why I keep getting cast as characters like this.
But I will say that I made a point to be
to prioritize presence over... say it together.
PREPARATION
And that really freed me up
to just be in the moment and experience what Tom was experiencing
and, you know, play off my other my fellow actor.
Yeah, amazing.
And final question
is a bit of a frivolous one, but if you could con anyone out of a book,
like what book would you consider one still for to get a book.
To get a book, which book would it be?
Oh, I love
so probably like like something like.
Like a signed first edition of something.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's something I want. I want a signed.
I want a signed hardcover of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
It's my favorite book.
So good.
I love the Screwtape Letters with C.S.
Lewis. That book is so good.
Um, so, yeah, I don't know.
It doesn't need to be signed.
Like, would just the version
stealing it from Waterstones.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for talking to me today.
This film's really great, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
You take care. So nice to meet you.