00:00Adria, what excited you the most playing Celeste, this badass army sniper?
00:08Well, there's a lot of elements. I mean, I think what excited me the most was to work with Mr.
00:13Adam over here.
00:15He just had like the coolest vision I've ever had a director sort of tell me in a lunch meeting.
00:22He like pitched me the whole entire opening of the movie and I was like, oh my god, I just,
00:26I really hope I get this one.
00:27And it was just so cool. And I love the fact that Celeste is messy and unapologetically herself.
00:34And she's not necessarily the best mom, but she's, you know, she's also not pretending to be.
00:40And I love that it's sort of a redemption story of her motherhood.
00:45And I thought that was really, really cool and interesting.
00:48I had never played a character like that.
00:52And one of the things that excited me the most as well was at the beginning,
00:55Adam shared a lot of the music with me.
00:59And I don't know, that just gets you in the zone and it gets you in the tone of a
01:04movie so much quicker.
01:06So that was pretty cool.
01:07I like the fact that, you know, at the beginning of the movie, she doesn't get to her arsenal of
01:13guns.
01:13And, you know, she has her neighbors who you kind of see her discussing and not in the best terms
01:19with at the beginning of the movie in there who sort of protect her along the way.
01:23And then she gets that chainsaw finally and removes havoc.
01:29But yeah, I've always said, I'm like, there's nothing scarier in the world than a mom trying to protect her
01:38child.
01:38Like, I will take a boxer, I'll take an MMA fighter, I'll take a ninja, but I will not mess
01:44with a mom trying to protect her.
01:46That is too feral, too intimidating, no thank you.
01:51And I think that's why Celeste is such a badass.
01:53Adam, what do you think makes this movie very fresh, unique and different from another action slash horror movies out
02:03there?
02:04Well, in an interesting way, I think the thing that makes it kind of feel new is the fact that
02:08we're taking a lot of familiar things that you've seen and love in genre tropes,
02:13but we're combining them in ways that you've never seen before.
02:15You know, like I think that's sort of what my specialty is as a director is I like to, you
02:20know, walk this tightrope of like, you know, of just like mixing genres together in ways that you haven't seen
02:28before.
02:28And, you know, and that's a hard thing to, you know, carry over tone wise.
02:33And so, yeah, I mean, it's like it's like we wanted to do something modern and new, but we wanted
02:39to do it by way of, you know, our influences from John Carpenter and James Cameron, 80s, 90s movies and
02:47that kind of thing.
02:48You are also executive producer in the film.
02:52So I was working with her.
02:55What is more challenging dealing with Adria as an actress or as a producer?
03:01I would say either one was challenging, you know, like we got along and, you know, and, you know, like,
03:08you know, Adria had a lot of great ideas that we incorporated into the film because, you know, it's really
03:12important that, you know, like, you know, your lead in a film,
03:17it's like they're more than just like, you know, like a living prop, you know, and she like, she knew
03:24the character up and down and, you know, and so she pushed us in some really good directions actually.
03:30Great. Great job. Thank you so much.
