OBSESSION Stars And Director On Pressure And The Most Disgusting Day On Set transcript

Because though after it was on the second take, cuz we're trying to figure out the tape, and so our lovely um makeup artist actually held it there with her own hand um rather than tape cuz it just kept It was lovely, it's all good. >> [music] >> Curry, you have made a bunch of short films with no budget. You made a feature Milk and Cereal with your friends for like less than a thousand dollars. Working with a bigger budget, a bigger crew, just everything on a bigger scale for Obsession, what were the biggest differences you noticed in the way that you worked?

And what are some of the things that translated pretty directly? There was a lot riding on this for me. I knew from the get that this was kind of my chance to uh tell show the world that I could be a filmmaker. But you know, we also didn't know like how far this movie could go. We we I knew what I wanted and and I knew and I could only dream of what it has become. Um that was my goal from the get was like a huge wide theatrical release like obviously, but you just you don't know that that's going to happen, but I treated it as if um this was my chance.

Uh but also um it didn't feel that different than what I've done before, you know, you have it just especially cuz we were working with a lot of young young people our age, you know. Um if the energy felt really young on set and everybody um there was there because they um wanted to be. And it was a very passionate um group of people. It wasn't uh people that were tired and have been doing this for 50 years and like didn't You know what I mean?

Oh, we were definitely tired. We [laughter] were tired. Speak for yourself. Uh yeah. I get what you mean though, they're like fresh and excited to be there and yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not to say that people that have been doing it for 50 years aren't No, but it was just new. Yeah, exactly. It was like the youngest set I've ever been on. It was it was really fun. Amazing. How do you remove the pressure element of that though?

Because the way you just described it is like this could be the shot, like the thing, but you have to also just be you and approach it as you. >> Well, it's the same pressure that I've had for a while. I have this pressure now with Texas Chainsaw. I've got the I have this pressure with Anything but Ghost. You know, now I've got to live up to this, right? So, each film is is a new pressure and uh you just have to push it away and forget about it.

You really have cuz pressure is the killer of creativity. I really believe that and so I kind of got to put myself in a box when I'm writing this thing and um and just try to go back to the days when cuz when I made those short films I was I was untouchable, right? Like I could fly. Like I could just I it could it could suck, but it wouldn't matter. I had no one to answer to, right? Like Yeah. I'm just whatever. I wrote a movie about chair and I put it on YouTube and like there's no pressure for it to be good.

Now there's like, "Okay, Curry, this better be good. This is your next movie and this is your next movie." And but you just have to forget about It sounds like you have the right attitude and the right approach to it and clearly from your guys' rapport like you're leading the set in a way that is fun for everybody. >> [laughter] >> So, we've got body horror, we've got bodily functions, we've got head smashing, and this is for all of you.

What was the most disgusting day on set and did you find it delightful or were you actually disgusted by it? Why don't you say? What was the most disgusting time for you? I know you had you had some pretty >> lunch. Okay. >> I'm going to get this out of my mouth. So. >> [laughter] >> There was a moment where I throw up and obviously not obviously we there's two different ways to do it. You can put things in your mouth and just kind of them out or they wanted kind of like a projectile.

So, we had a homes we had a hose >> [laughter] >> and it was taped but the thing is the tape came off and it Somebody else mind telling us right now. shot in my mouth and so I'm over Michael and so Michael's just like Okay, well Oh my god, like is this really Is she really going to throw up right now? I'm like just trying. There was a So I mean it maybe spoiler, but the puke is going onto my face and you know, I was actually really enjoying it until [laughter] until that moment where >> like Michael, I might actually >> actually throw up because it just like the the the feeling of it's not fun. >> there was a gag there was a gag and I was like I might be about to get Yeah, and he's just like right I would have done I would have accepted it because But [laughter] it was a Home Depot bucket to the left of me that one of our producers Haley Johnson just immediately would run in afterwards and I'd be like Okay, I'm fine.

She's like you good? And then we'd go straight into another take, but it was It was an actual puke bucket like you're actually just like >> bucket cuz so after it was on the second take cuz we're trying to figure out the tape and so our lovely makeup artist actually held it there with her own hand rather than tape cuz it just kept It was lovely it's all It was absolutely Taste okay though aside from like shooting into I blocked out the memory so much.

It was banana and sugar and chocolate but [laughter] she It was not. It was like dry milk but >> tasted it. It was It was It was neutral which is kind of creepy. >> No, ma'am. Did you get any actual puke on you? I No puke. Super professional. Perfect. I did a great job. >> I was very lady-like in this whole movie. I don't know what you're talking about. A gentlewoman. Yes. [laughter] Plenty of blood though. Lots of blood.

Did you get blood in your mouth? Probably. >> Yes. Yes. What did that taste like? It's very sweet. It was meaty meaty. It's weird. >> [laughter] >> Better than the barf. Tastes better than the barf. Yeah, I would Yep. I got it in my eyes actually. >> You did. So did I. Anyways, it's a great thing you can be tired and everything, but you know what all looks good. Yeah, well that wakes you up a little bit I would imagine like the barf shooting in and blood in the eyes.

Yeah, all of it. Yeah, if it's 4:00 a.m. which it sometimes [clears throat] was. happens. None. You do some very interesting physicality things in this and with your face as well. And you're terrifying but you're not terrifying cuz she's a prisoner and we feel bad for her. But how did you what were the conversations like of like nailing those movements and those facial expressions? I would love for you to talk because there was so many inspirations that you had but it was like taking inspiration without mimicking I it was kind of like let's take the emotion and the creepiness of this with it.

We watched a lot of references. We watched we watched entire movies together. We also just watched certain clips from certain movies. We watched we even watched things where I told her this is what I this is what this movie is not. Like we would watch references of things just so I could show her what this isn't because we were going for something so specific. And um like yeah I I guess I lost my train of thought there but what was the question?

Uh the faces and the specificness with the he did a really good job with like kind of showing me as well and like he would like like a little muñeca like he would like move my face and like move the eyes and like hold it for this long like I was I felt very much like a little marionette. I'm your freaky Nikki. We would literally test out different voices and stuff like there was like we would test out voices and do things with our go up and down and like test out different we would try watching.

We would try different smiles. We would try different frowns. We would do takes where I'm like this time smile this way this time squint your eyes this time do that like just because you kind of find out later what you want but also like it just in even the rehearsal of it. Experimenting and seeing what works. >> They didn't show me until the until the day until the until we started the lot of the time. Yeah. That's probably preferred cuz it's a very real reaction that y'all have.

I know that's our time guys thank you so much. I came to ask if I can get a refund for this season. I'm sorry. >> [music]