Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King focus on what feelings are on the heart of their characters’ motivations within the I Know What You Did Last Summer time movie.
The forged spoke with Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum in regards to the movie and the way they approached their characters’ emotional states and driving forces. Pidgeon, who performs Stevie Ward, mentioned her character’s “deep ties” to Southport clarify a lot of her actions.
“The truth that she was the one who couldn’t get out and has had kind of this enduring time there…I feel her ties and the sensation of being trapped in Southport have motivated numerous her actions all through the movie,” she mentioned. “I imply, she’s completely heartbroken and exacting revenge.”
Exploring disgrace, heartbreak, and parental stress
Wonders mentioned her character, Ava Brucks, has points with how she sees herself.
“I feel Ava’s motivation lies in a deep sense of disgrace. I feel she’s somebody who’s seen herself as sort of this morally pure and good individual with this type of problemless upbringing, after which this [thing] occurs.”
“I feel there’s numerous self-hate and numerous disgrace that drives her ahead,” she continued. “And additionally this sense of affection in the direction of this good friend group and in the direction of these individuals tied to this place that’s so nostalgic for her, like attempting to get that again, attempting to retrieve that sense of affection is one thing she’s chasing after.”
Withers, who performs Teddy Spencer, mentioned what drew him to the movie had been the characters’ deep feelings.
“I all the time say as people we’re mosaics. We’re an accumulation of our experiences,” he mentioned. “We’re a product of the character and nurturing that we’ve witnessed. And I feel Teddy is a product of his father. I feel he fears his tackle issues and he simply desires to make his dad proud.”
“His total life, he has simply been letting him down, and I feel that drives numerous the best way he responds to traumatic conditions,” he continued. “He’s witnessed his father react to issues, and when you’re taught a sure method to hold the good friend group alive and the enterprise going, he simply put issues below the rug. He’s not a foul individual. You can decide Teddy, however he’s simply reacting [as] he was taught.”
Attempting to manage when all the pieces unravels
Hauer-King’s character Milo Griffin thinks of himself as “fairly upstanding and fairly a superb individual.” However, Hauer-King continued, when the film’s huge occasion occurs, “I feel it’s going to be very painful for him and he doesn’t actually know how you can take care of it. And so I feel he tries to be a pragmatist and he tries to be rational.”
“I feel he sees the scenario for what it’s. He sees the guilt as being fairly…sinister and kind of consuming individuals from the within out,” he added. “Like, he’s seeing this individual that he actually likes and the disgrace and what it’s doing and consuming away at her. So I feel he tries to set himself this different mentality. I feel he’s somebody that tries to kind of write his narrative himself and tries to be sort of optimistic about it and pragmatic, however finally it’s nonetheless there and the ache continues to be there and it’s not leaving him. So I feel it’s a relentless push and pull with these two.”
Watch the total interview with the whole forged above. I Know What You Did Last Summer time is now in theaters.
