So we are here to talk about
"Come to Daddy."
Yeah.
Why was this project special and you
wanted to get involved in it?
For a variety of reasons.
I know Ant Timpson, the director. I've known
him for a long time.
It was written by a guy called Toby Harvard.
He sent me the script and I loved it.
It constantly surprised me.
Every 5 to 10 pages,
it subverted my expectations, it kept
going places that I didn't expect it to go.
It had all these elements
that I love in genre films kind of packed
into one thing.
And I loved the character, this kind of
funny, pretentious millennial
that's thrust into this, you know,
isolated environment to go reunite with his
father that he's not seen in 30 years.
And he's not what he seems to be.
And it kind of goes from there.
And yeah, I just loved it.
Pretentious millennial, you have a lot of
places to find inspiration for that.
So who did you look to to inspire that?
When we got into production we kind of
crafted the look together
like with the wardrobe and hair and makeup
department and myself and
I ended up with a bowl cut, like,
a crazy bowl cut
Oh, cute. a crazy bowl cut
Oh, cute.
with some very strange clothes.
Is it fun to jump into those roles and be
like the pretentious asshole for a little bit?
Super fun, yeah.
This movie, it really is kind of a journey from the
moment that it starts.
You know, you've got this guy
who's responded to this letter from his father.
He's a fish out of water. Goes to this house,
he has no idea who he's about to meet
beyond the fact that he's his dad and his
dad behaves in a strange way.
And one thing leads to another and it goes
in crazy directions.
So it becomes this sort of ride that the
character is on.
And he starts this one thing
and ends something very different.
You've been doing this for so long and
really scaring audiences.
So what do you think is the key ingredient
to really make an audience shit themselves?
I think to really be scared you have to connect with
what is happening on the screen.
The scariest things are when
You're invested in those people.
If you don't care about the characters, or
what's occurring to
the characters on the screen,
then you're not invested and therefore it's
not really that scary to you.
Like buried alive? Burned alive?
Shark attack?
So as an actor, you have such an incredible
versatile resume, like from indie darlings
to major blockbusters like 'The Lord Of The
Rings' trilogy.
But when do you feel most gratified
as a storyteller?
Oh man, that's really hard.
I- producing
and, and,
producing something from the ground up and
those films resonating with people is
The last thing that we released was a movie
called 'Mandy.' And the way that that movie
connected with people and that
they— people were able to discover Panos Cosmatos
for the first time.
People would drive out of their way to go to
the cinema despite the fact that they could
see it on iTunes.
And really it sort of exemplifies the
reason I want to be a producer in the first
place. I just want to be a filmmaker.
I want to be a part of putting something
out into the universe that
I feel or we feel people should see.
And that was a great example of that.
Stories that move people. That's what we're all about.
I'm being told to wrap up and I haven't even
got through half my questions.
I love Elijah Wood so much!
That was the funnest interview.
Thank you. Thank was really fun.
Elijah, this is not the end for us. Thank you. Thank was really fun.
Elijah, this is not the end for us.
No way.
You were so fun. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
I had so much fun. You made my week.
Awesome.