Well hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Talkin’ Tech.
My name is Trisha
Hershberger and today we are talking with Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney about the
upcoming Focus Features Film The Forest.
You get paranoid.
You’re not real.
Um The Forest is
terrifying.
Good.
Today we’re going to be talkin’ tech and I don’t know how much of a gadget
junky you are but we’re going to start off with the real personal questions.
Okay.
If that’s okay
with you?
Yeah.
This is like the one thing Sarah doesn’t have in the forest because no
technology works in the forest.
And we’re going to get into that.
We’re going to get to that.
Okay
so starting off with the personal stuff.
What is your favorite gadget that you currently use and
own?
I have a Blackberry.
I’m not very technical.
You have a Blackberry?
Yeah.
I would just be
lost without my iPhone I mean it’s really that simple.
My older brother Adam he was the first
person to program a VCR.
So when I was a kid when we had a VHS or a Nintendo he was a bit
of a savant so he kind of monopolized all time on video game systems the computer.
He was
always so he’s the he’s the guy.
He’s the tech nerd of the family.
I spent all my time outside.
I
was always in the woods on a dirt bike or just hiking or spray painting under bridges
and things.
Which makes you the perfect guide for Sarah in The Forest.
Yeah sure.
When I was back at
school that’s a long time ago.
Okay now on your iPhone do you have a favorite app or a most
frequently used app?
My most frequently used app on my iPhone would definitely be What’s
App because I’m away from home so much I’m doing press junkets I’m shooting so my quickest
fastest way of staying in contact with my friends and family.
Sending videos sending photos.
You know.
And sending all through data so when you’re sending internationally What’s App is
perfect for you.
Exactly.
So you don’t take your phone with you when you’re traveling
internationally?
Like a pen and pad I like a good journal.
You are amazing to me.
Do you speak
a lot of different languages?
Broken broken bunch.
How do you get around without Google
Translate or iTranslate?
I don’t know it’s more the experience is more colorful when you don’t
have that I feel.
So you’re going to have a really interesting answer to this question.
I know in
the forest in the actual forest the iron deposits in the trees are said to make compasses and
cell
phones not work.
What is the longest you have ever been disconnected?
Maybe this past
summer.
Actually shooting the film The Forest I was we were in Serbia.
So I was in Serbia for I
don’t know a month and a half and I didn’t I didn’t use my phone.
So let’s say a month and a half
without my phone.
Well the signal was pretty bad.
We were up in a mountain in Serbia shooting
The Forest.
So we were in this beautiful national park of the forest called Tarhead National Park
and connectivity was pretty bad up there.
So for most of The Forest shoot I would be walking
around like walking around like I’m a mad person.
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me
now?
I enjoy it.
I like it.
I’m a bit of a throwback maybe.
Okay.
But it gets too much.
I feel people
are too plugged in.
You shouldn’t be relying on a mountain rescue they say don’t rely on your
technology because the weather and it could go wrong.
You need to be old fashioned and take
a map up there with you and know how to read it.
And that’s not a skill set the new generation
really has anymore.
And it’s important because it’s dangerous.
And that is excellent advice P.S.
let’s listen to Natalie on that one.
Alright so now let’s talk about some stuff that happens in The
Forest.
We’re dealing with the dead trying to communicate with humans.
Do you think it’s
possible for humans live humans to communicate with the dead?
Yeah I think there’s I’m not
that closed off.
I believe you know I believe in that.
I believe in the afterlife.
Well I think what The
Forest is really about is about the demons you carry as an individual manifesting themselves.
And it’s this idea of walking into a place where you have your own demons reflected
immediately back at you and that is terrifying.
I mean the idea that that could be a real place is
absolutely terrifying.
Well what if I told you there’s an app that existed today that claims to allow
you to communicate with the dead?
I would believe you because there’s an app for everything.
I’d say you should buy it and have fun with it.
Would you want to try it?
Oh my god.
That’s very
funny.
This is called Ghost Detector for everybody at home.
So what are we doing we’re
tracking ghosts?
Are there any ghosts in here that you can see?
It doesn’t look like there’s any
ghosts in the room.
It looks like we’re clear.
Oh there is a ghost.
It looks like we’re in a safe part
of New York City right now.
Patricia?
Is that what it is?
Is that what it says?
Hummus?
It’s a
ghost named Patricia who likes hummus.
It’s Patricia the Hummus Ghost.
Patricia the Hummus
Ghost?
Well thank you Patricia.
It’s getting towards lunch she must be hungry.
Awesome well
thank you for being such a good sport and checking it out.
Thanks for being a good sport trying
out our ghost technology.
Cheers.
Pleasure.