00:26This is Tim Wasper from Fast Track on CERC TV.
00:32The hardest thing obviously a lot of times is shooting at night but then trying to create
00:38sort of a sense of mystery beyond that. Could you sort of talk about that because the way
00:44you play your character versus your rock is completely different in terms of how they
00:53have to fit together as a puzzle. I really am not sure why I went with an all-nighter film
00:58because it's really complex to shoot a film at night because you have to do it on real
01:04locations and that means we need long nights and that also means we have to shoot in winter
01:11because the long nights are in winter. And that meant that we filmed for 20 consecutive days which
01:20breaks of course at night for 12 hours in winter. Which helped us accidentally I suppose that we got
01:30this zombified tone of acting in the film. But of course it took us a while to get on the
01:42same page
01:43for the tone of the film because Slovenian films are absolutely nothing like it or films from
01:54neighboring countries. And I just had this concept in my head and I needed to push it somehow into their
02:04heads and all the other actors and also the whole production team. So we needed to be on the same
02:10page.
02:12And we also did that by shooting the film twice the first time with a photo camera and we did
02:20it in 12
02:20days just me the actors and the director of photography. We shot on locations and we practiced
02:30the tone of the film and the compositions and the style of acting because at first it didn't work.
02:39It was hard to do it to explain also. I mean we had references with films like
02:48my major reference was Art of Self-Defense
02:55which I saw late in pre-production and I really got scared because I was like oh no a film
03:04like this
03:05already exists. But still it was it was quite different in a way that I just used it as a
03:12reference to show it around to my to my team. But yeah in the meantime we filmed this practicing
03:19film which I still have at home a version of the film which is a total lo-fi version of
03:27the film where we
03:28didn't do we didn't have any props or and we filmed like in daylight and nights and we didn't care
03:37for anything except we just practiced how to how to do it.
03:55Was it like when you were taking these photos was it about the way that Rock stands?
04:00You could tell that he's a complete admiration of the girl and yet it's all about you know trust
04:07versus betrayal in many ways without giving too much away but how both of you stand like the
04:15the strength of her she seems bigger than he is and did that come through on the photos and then
04:23beyond that basically did you said it had to be flipped a little bit. Just because it's it's such a
04:30toned
04:30down style of acting it's not something we're used to and we're we both come from uh theater uh which
04:38obviously is you know it's
04:42and project exactly you have to project to the final row and um so we had to do a lot
04:48of practicing and a
04:49lot of rehearsing to get it just right because um i think that lucas vision was i mean i think
04:58we did
04:58a good job uh like realizing his vision but just to get on the same page was was a long
05:04process that's
05:06why he he presented us with all the references like art of self-defense or uh on body and soul
05:12the
05:12hungarian movie and napoleon dynamite and stuff like that just just to get um the tone right
05:20and when it comes to when it comes to our uh bodies body expressions like like you mentioned
05:28she looks uh stronger than i do and taller than i do and all that stuff i think that that
05:33was all very
05:34intentional um but uh that it was intentional but on some sort it just naturally happened during the
05:43rehearsal process and uh i i don't know how it came to be but we just clicked immediately i think
05:50it
05:51did it does show like like i was watching that the movie yesterday all again and i was surprised not
05:58not to brag but i do think that i do think that we have an amazing chemistry yes she does
06:15which is a
06:16beautiful thing you know and it's it's her eyes it's all in the eyes yes yes could you talk about
06:27that finding her psychologically because she does what she wants she seems uh yes sorry she seems
06:34fearless actually because she has i think nothing to lose actually um but uh building a character yes i
06:42sticked to um awkwardness being awkward and um dangerous and yes the eyes were here very helpful
06:50because as you said there was almost not expression at all no expression at all so yes um it was
07:00quite
07:00challenging at first um like urban said uh because we are both from theater and used to acting very
07:07expressive uh but i find it interesting uh immediately and then we just trusted luca and um yeah he said
07:18he was
07:18always saying saying don't blink don't blink with your eyes and you know like okay how to not blink it's
07:244 a.m in the morning we are tired you know there were times because the because of the height
07:30difference between
07:30them whenever she looked at him upwards she she had this puppy eyes look which was not what we wanted
07:40and then we realized that it takes only an inch of just raising her head up or down where you
07:47get a
07:48puppy eyes look or a dangerous look it's a very thin line between the cubits there yes yes yes because
07:54he's so
07:55tall that it happens naturally if you if a small person looks at the bigger one you're like so yeah
08:03there were micro movements involved to to look to look like she looked in the film
08:13okay
08:23build it slowly and it creates stakes because now there's an awkwardness between the store you know
08:30or just like when she leaves there's a there's a definite pacing and an energy i really like silence
08:36in films uh i really like stare downs and it's it comes uh it's intense by default but especially
08:46because of uh how how she looks like and how she looked at rock and uh whenever she looked at
08:54him in
08:55silence i i was just watching the the screen and i just wanted it to to to to last forever
09:02basically
09:02because the intensity was raising by the second uh and then we in the editing process we we could just
09:12you know cut it all out and just do it quickly but the we lose our all the intensity but
09:20also the humor
09:21of the film uh and i find also silence incredibly uh funny and fun and uh when someone says something
09:31and
09:31then the silence comes next to it it's it suddenly becomes funny and this was a comedy at heart um
09:42and i always try to do comedy by default you know for this film uh and i also see it
09:49as an absurdist
09:50comedy of although it's a hybrid of different genres
09:58you
10:05you
