Inside Midsommar and Sword of Trust, Two of the Summers Most Compelling Indie Alternatives

Youre asked, I mean, you and Florence both, but in some senses you more, are asked to do a lot of hard things in terms of nudity and all this kind of stuff. Do you find that that implicit trust with the director, is that really hard to come by? I mean, is that a rare experience with a director like Ari Aster? Or do you find that you can arrive there with, you know, most people you work with?

By and large I can trust people as long as Im clear that they are committed to their vision, they know what they want to get and they have a plan for how theyre going to get it. And Ari ticks all those boxes, you know? The really complicated thing that was going on and set was that we were shooting in a valley in incredible heat in the middle of summer.

It looks hot.

it was so hot, dude. In the middle of summer, like direct sunlight all day. And you had a Hungarian portion of cast and crew, Swedish part of that, and an English-speaking part of that. So there were three languages on set and there was, I think, two people who spoke all three languages. So the conditions were difficult. It was a hard set, it was a hard place to shoot and everything had to be translated back and forth, like Chinese whisperers.

And when everything is being executed in such a precise way, from the cinematography to the blocking of the actors. Youve got these huge scenes, like these dinner scenes and these rituals and all this kind of stuff. And so to coordinate all that was so incredibly tricky. And I think that was tough at times for Ari. It meant that sometimes we as a cost could get a little bit frustrated because we were standing around going like, Hey, whats going on? When are we going to shoot this? Weve been standing here forever. You know what I mean? And he was trying to get his vision across the line to everybody in all these different languages. So, I mean, it was profoundly difficult in that sense, but I think we pulled it off. Im like, I do feel like, the product, its sound.

So you did all that work and you know, youd had these conversations before you shot and you had this sort of intuitive sense while you were in process of what the film was going to be. So you sat down to watch it. The day were recording, I think you just watched the movie for the first time two days ago. What surprised you? I mean, what didnt you expect from the final product?

As I said to you, I always knew that there was going to be a comedic tone, that there was going to be a lot of black humor in it. What really surprised me was that the final 40 minutes of the film, we, the cast, at least, we all stopped laughing and itRead More – Source

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