2024-11-21
34 分钟It almost started as like a joke at the beginning because I was like, what is the most bat thing I could go in there and pitch to them.
And then the more I thought about it, I was like, I actually, I think there's real juice here.
I love the idea of exploring a character like this through the lens of horror and I can treat it as another incredibly intense character study that Smile sort of comes in and invades her world.
Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
In this episode, a pop star is haunted by increasingly terrifying visions in director Parker Finn's horror thriller Smile 2.
The film tells the story of Sky Reilly, a pop star about to embark on a world tour, when she begins to experience increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events.
Overwhelmed by escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, she is forced to face her past.
In addition to Smile 2, Finn's other directorial credits include the feature film Smile and the short films Laura Hasn't Slept and the Hide Behind.
Following a screening of the film at the DGA theater in Los Angeles, Finn spoke with director Mike Flanagan about filming Smile 2.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
I grew up in Northern Ohio, sort of in between Cleveland and Akron.
My dad was a cinephile and worked sort of in like the early era of like, home theater.
Like back before anybody was even saying those two words together, home theater.
So, like, movies were a really big thing in my house and loved movies.
And, you know, my mom had been a schoolteacher, so, like, I always had to have a book in my hand and so like, I was sort of, you know, enveloped by storytelling.
Movies were the thing, I think when I was like a little kid, I guess I wanted to be an actor because, like, that's what I saw.
I didn't really understand that, like, there were people making these.
They just sort of movies sort of seemed just like handed down from above, fully formed, you know.
And it wasn't until I sort of started to understand like, you know, the Spielbergs and the, you know, James Camerons and the Ridley Scotts.
I was like, oh, like, that's what I want to do, but you know how to do that.