Freaky taleswhich premiered in 2024 in the Sundance Film FestivalFinally, it is outside, and one thing that people has been waiting for is the feature film of Normani with the project. She stars in the opposite Pedro Pascal, Jay EllisBen Mendelsohn, Dominique Thorne, the missing Cloud Angus and much more.
According to director Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the singer did not approach the LionsGate movie, but a hearing was made as countless others for paper.
“He came to hearing like many other people, and only had this great presence,” Fleck said in a recent interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “The camera loves her and is a performer. So she had never acted before, but she was very comfortable acting, obviously. And therefore it was great to have -comfortable on stage with a microphone. He could deal with all this with grace and presence. But beyond that, the current things, only quiet moments where he looked in a mirror or only an anxiety about his life. Beautiful that has. “
“It has so much depth and is really found,” Boden said. “And I hope her fans will see a new side of her. She shows in this movie that can do much more than being a musician and interpreting. I mean it can carry it in terms of performance. And I just want to say that we have a Dream Distribution for this and we feel so lucky.”
What is the “Freaky stories” about?
The film, which has an anthology format, establishes in 1987 Oakland where “ a mixtape of colored characters (a NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, a teenager punks, neo -Nazis and a debt collector) (are) in a collision course in a conflict and battles fever dream. ”
How did the counselors approach an indie movie with great ambitions?
Boden explained: “We must remind the financiers when we were getting the money to make it (this),” We come from the realization of indie cinema. We know that making a dollar goes far away. Trust us. This is in our wheel house. We know what expectations for making an indie movie. We know how to be scrillo. We know how to do things quickly. “And it was certainly a very ambitious indie movie, the most ambitious indie movie we had ever made. Captain Marvel In terms of having more experience with action, having more experience with visual effects, not only Captain Marvelbut also the (Apple TV+series) Air masters He prepared us to do it. And then our experience working with indie movies like Half Nelson and Sugar A kind of preparation for the nature of the guns. “”
Fleck explained how they resisted turning the movie into episodic television, adding: “There were some people who read the script and urged us to turn it into a television series (and said) that it could make more money. Creepshwas Pulp fictionas Mystery train. This will be a movie. And we hooked. “
How do Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis fit the story of the movie?
Apart from Normani, Boden and Fleck talked about the other stars, such as Pascal and Ellis, the first of which played their interconnected role throughout the film. His character, Clint, is a fictional character and not a story rooted in real life events like most of the film.
“Pedro’s character, as we were writing, was a completely fictional character who was more based on our love of films in the archetypal characters of the 1980 movie B movie from that time on,” said Boden. “It was created to make it a tie that began to tie those other chapters. And, honestly, as we wrote, we only loved this character that we began to grow in his own chapter. That’s why subculture.”
Which gender turn brings the segment of Jay Ellis?
As for Ellis, for his section of the film, the film becomes a Blaxploitation-Esque, fun.
“It was impressive,” said Fleck. “ It was fun to write, first of all. And Jay was so committed.He was the first person we went and he was from the beginning. And he committed to the training, to do it impressive.And we worked with an acrobatics coordinator, his name is Ron Yuan. And basically we had ideas and that he would share ideas with us, and he was really collaborative and we were just thinking about fun and we could only think of fun.
Freaky tales It is now in theaters.
