Writers’ leader Drew HancockS “Companion“Takes so many turns between genres and tones that it is almost impossible to describe without giving away their secrets, but since the trailer has already given away that iris, the female lead in this most unconventional of rom-coms, a robot, is A robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a robot, is a let’s just say that it is’Marriage story“If one of the partners in the division was an Android and if there was also a heist, several murders and even a couple of dance numbers that were thrown in.
Even the actors who played in the film have a hard time classifying it. “I still don’t know what genre it is,” Jack QuaidWho plays Iris “boyfriend” Josh, told IndieWire. “I love that it has no special box you can put it in.” Quaid’s Costar Sophie Thatcherwho plays Iris, was equally fascinated by the script’s unique quality and was further sold when she tied with Hancock over films and more specific film music. “It gave me the assurance that he had a really good taste and I was like, okay, I trust this guy,” Thatcher told Indiewire.
That confidence was essential considering the complicated layers ”Companion“Required the actors to reveal, as there are so many things they hide from themselves, each other and the audience. Actually one of filmThe biggest strengths are that it plays completely differently at the second show, with each of the actors’ gestures and line readings that provide alternative interpretations. The trick for both actors played several levels without becoming too technical and playing things dishonest as a result.
“I tried to be present and at the moment, but maybe leave a small trace of bread crumbs for the audience,” Quaid said. “I tried not to over -complicate it.” For Thatcher, the key was focusing on Iris physics, which was completely different from her own. “It was about finding stillness,” Thatcher said. “I had to reach an almost meditative state in certain scenes, which I am not used to. But I feel that I am already empathetic with her so much that it wasn’t really a distance. Much of it was intuitive. You have to choose a character and follow their state of mind. “
One of the most convincing things about “companion” as a whole and of Thatcher’s performance is especially the gradual change in Iris, a change Thatcher expressed partly by subtly adjusting his voice throughout the film. “When she finds her voice I found my Voice reduction and when you get closer to my own natural voice, while it is very smooth in the beginning, “Thatcher said. The fact that the film was largely managed in continuity helped endlessly when it came to calibrating the nuances in the character’s bow – as well as a close collaboration with costume designer Vanessa Porter.
If Iris’s clothes in early scenes feel reminiscent of the closet that the female joints carry in the 1960s Jean-Luc Godard movies, it is not a random-thatcher, Porter and Quaid decided that Iris would dress as a character from the French The new wave, because she was going to wear clothes Josh, a movie nerd, picked out for her. “(Sophie) and Drew arrived at the idea that Josh could be a movie bridge,” said Quaid, with Thatcher, leaving that what Josh has seen in movies “is what he is familiar with and it is his ideal woman.” For Josh himself, Quaid said he just wanted “the saddest, lonely possible clothes. You want it to be really credible that he is just a man child. “
While Quaid did not refer to Josh in the same way that Thatcher related to Iris, he found a way to a man he considered to be a rather contemptible character in many ways. “You don’t want to judge a character while playing him,” Quaid said. “I started from the simple idea of a person who never heard” I love you ” – how would his life have played out and what would have led him here? I think Josh is a person who has struggled to communicate with other people and get in touch with them, and I think he takes on many masks and artifications. “
Just as seeing Josh’s masks being stripped down is a ride for the audience, gave it one of the most important pleasures in playing the role of Quaid. “It is one of the most rewarding arches I could have taken, because he is the antagonist in the film but he thinks of himself as the hero. It was nice to have a compelling motivation, and I am so happy that I got to play him even though he is one of the worst people I have ever played. And I’ve played a serial killer! ”
“Companion” opens in the theaters on January 31.
