In a movie without discussion whatsoever it can be difficult to get in touch with a collection of personalities– particularly if those personalities are actual bigfoots. Yet that difficulty became part of the enjoyable for Riley Keough and her co-stars, providing the chance to actually “go feral.”
“Sasquatch Sunset,” which premiered at the Sundance Movie Celebration in Park City, Utah on Saturday, adheres to a household of Bigfoot throughout a year. The movie has no discussion or narrative, depicting these animals as simply that: animals. They connect through grunts, providing a “real” representation of the day-to-day live for the family members.
Undoubtedly, Keough had not been completely certain she would certainly also be literally able to play among the animals.
“The real, biggest question I had was, could I do it?” Keough remembered at TheWrap’s Sundance Picture and Meeting Workshop provided by NFP. “Because there’s no gauge of ‘can I be a good Sasquatch?’ that I could [look to]. I ended up walking around my room in [a] Sasquatch headspace. I got into an ape position. I was like, ‘Yes, I could do that!’”
Brothers David and Nathan Zellner co-directed the movie, with Nathan starring along withKeough And, according to supervisor David Zellner, entering into that headspace and having fun in it throughout the movie became part of the tourist attraction to the tale.
“One of the things that drew us to this, initially was there’s something very fun and desirable about being able to go feral,” he claimed with a laugh. “And if someone is into that as well — if they’re not into it, then it wouldn’t work at all. But once we’re in and everyone was in a groove with these characters and very much enjoying it, we’re like, oh, this is gonna work out great!”
Once the stars identified the physicality the difficulty ended up being determining just how to inform the tale without talking.
“It was really interesting, because there were a few phases,” Keough clarified. “Because there’s the self discovery as your own Sasquatch. And then there’s the ‘How do I interact with all of these characters?’ That was what was really interesting in the rehearsal is that I’m gonna react; I have a different relationship with my child than I am with the alpha and Jesse [Eisenberg’s] character.”
She proceeded, “We had this time to improvise and see how our characters would interact with one another, which was really fun.”
In the long run, assembling everything with each other and seeing completion result astonished the actors.
“It’s such an incredible achievement to do that, to make a movie about Sasquatches and have the ridiculous things that they have in their film, but also be able to go on this real, emotional journey with these characters and feel for them in this way that feels so human,” she included. “It’s incredible.”
You can view TheWrap’s complete meeting with the actors and supervisors of “Sasquatch Sunset” in the video clip over.
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