00:26This is Tim Wasper from Fast Track on CERC TV.
00:29I'm here in Austin, Texas for fantastic fact.
01:05Tonally, because the thing is, is obviously when you're on set, you have a certain feeling and a certain gut
01:11instinct.
01:11Then obviously that's part of the character is that she knows something's off, you know, but that's that's sometimes you
01:19don't know if, as you say, you don't look at the monitor.
01:21It's sometimes hard to read.
01:22You can probably feel it in the scene.
01:24Can you talk about the transmutation of knowing the script, playing the character, but then having seen the film, how
01:31she exists in that world and how you you sort of extrapolated because you were talking of like it's a
01:37it's a it's a the way it feels what that world is.
01:40Did it line up with what you were thinking?
01:43I was I was very happy with the film because I knew kind of I knew what it's probably going
01:52to look like if like the sets.
01:56But obviously I can't help myself, I am an actress, the first when I watched it for the first time,
02:03I was thinking.
02:05No, they picked the wrong or I'm so bad in this scene, they know I thought that they're gonna pick
02:13the other one and then it takes like, and especially in this project, because it felt, and it is so
02:20important and dear and special to me.
02:23It felt like, first, it felt bad, because from the start, I jokingly said many times to Marcus, are you
02:33sure, like, my biggest fear is that I'm gonna ruin the film.
02:38And now I've seen it a couple of times, I didn't ruin it, obviously.
02:43No, no, because it's, it's about that pendulum between them and how her choices it really it reads well, but
02:51it has to sort of, that's why
02:52the fact that you started at the end, and move back to the beginning is interesting, because it's almost subtraction,
02:58subtraction, subtraction, and it reads well, I just like, you know, we, the, the more we shot the kind of,
03:06the more tight Amelia needed to be because we went,
03:11well, not chronologically, well, not chronologically to the beginning, but still, we went to the places where she is, she
03:18is still believing in the, in the, in the world and the system.
03:23So, yeah, that was, that was, that was, that was, in fact, a weird, weird way of, of, of shooting
03:29it.
03:29But, no, I'm very happy with the, the, the results.
03:33And, and I'm just also amazed by the places that they found, I mean, this movie took me to, well,
03:44some of the weirdest places I've been, been, been shooting.
03:47So, that's also, I'm very happy that, even if I saw the scene, sets, like, I saw them myself, but
03:54also seeing them in the, in the movie and everything, blending so beautifully together.
04:01I just, when, when I watched it for the first time, I was mostly also relieved about the fact that
04:08I feel like the people who's going to watch it are going to believe the, the world.
04:13They're going to, there's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a beautifully well, well, and well put together.
04:20I, I feel like it's a real place where we are in the, the most part of the film.
04:56You believe the world, but the thing that really brings you
05:00in are these two characters and how they're going through life, how they see life.
05:04But what works is that you guys create sort of a humanity in it, but there, and there's heart, but
05:11there's also a little bit of humor, again, that's born out of this awkwardness.
05:15Can you talk about the importance of that in these characters?
05:19Because they take it so seriously, and yet we can see the irony in everything.
05:24It was very much already in the script, which I find that that's where especially find Marcus to be a
05:31very good writer also, because immediately when I read the script for the first time, I understood this is, this
05:42is also a kind of a comedic film, even if it's like tech, technically not.
05:48But, so, so, so I was very, very happy with kind of, I felt like we were given the opportunity
05:58already from the start to, to explore the humor and explore the, like nuances, because we knew what kind of
06:08humor there, there is going to be.
06:10And, and then, and then, once again, I have to mention Miro Lopperik, because he's also like the funniest co
06:19-star you can have.
06:20So, so every time where, when we made these scenes together, it was, we, we really had to not laugh.
06:29But it's so hard when you have, he's, he's brilliant at that, also the small, small things that you only,
06:38you only like, see when you're standing really, really close to him.
06:44Does he do that long stare in real life?
06:47He's very, he's very, he can do that too.
06:50And I was like, I, I, I can't be the one ruining your take, ruining your take, because this is
06:57beautiful.
06:58Now I just have to, now I just have to, to concentrate.
07:03But there too, I was, I was, I was lucky enough to have the kind of the same, same sense
07:10of humor than, than Marcus and, and the, the film.
07:13So we didn't, from the beginning, it felt like we have, we have the same, we felt, or I felt
07:21that we feel like the humor comes from the same things and the small, small things.
07:28And, and, and then, well, we had fun on set, and we made different, different choices on set.
07:36You, so, so that's also the thing, when you send the, the material to, to the editors, I know there's
07:43going to be fun stuff, but, but I don't know how it's going to play, because I don't know what
07:49takes they're going to choose.
07:51But I was very happy with the, with the kind of funny results also, that they, they, they decided to,
08:00to get to, to, or, or cut, cut into the film, because obviously we have, we have as many possibilities
08:09as we have good takes.
08:11So, so, so I, I think that they found, or for me, it felt like the, that the humor is,
08:19is consistent throughout the movie, and the same kind of, there's no, like surprising, or it, it feels like it's
08:29coherent, like, it goes well.
08:36So, so, so.
09:06And then, obviously, there's, for example, Pirjo Heikkilä, who's playing Emilia's boss, she's, she, she's such, she, she's, like, the
09:18funniest person in, in Finland, she's the, she's a, such a comedian, it's, it's also sitting with her, in the,
09:29in the self-driving car train, yeah.
09:34exactly the same thing i i know it's a long take the cameras go and and and marcus just says
09:40like
09:40just go for it you can improvise and i'm just sitting there
09:45holding on trying to not ruin her take when she's blasting about the
09:55we have to kill the rodents and there's gonna be a pandemic and i she's just
10:00brilliant so i mean i had so much fun and i think i also i i felt like i had
10:07i had front row seats
10:08to to learn from uh hope who's playing jimmy there many of the actors that we have are mostly known
10:16for comedic roles and they still are playing very
10:23in a different way in the in the we're doing this full-on drama way and it's still so funny
10:29so so i think i had i i got front row seats to to to learn from like the best
10:37in the country
10:38it was it was a good choice to get those like comedians comedic actors there because
10:46if there would be only like drama actors i think the comedy would have been a bit different it
10:53wouldn't have been would have have been as funny as it was
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