Summary
After her breakout role inThe White Lotus,Meghann Fahyis ready to experiment with other genres.
Sklenar also teases his next highly anticipated film,The Housemaid, which starsAmanda SeyfriedandSydney Sweeney.
PERRI NEMIROFF: I’m so excited to talk aboutDrop.
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Chris, I’ll follow you to any project you take, and yet again you deliver big.
Congratulations on the movie.
CHRISTOPHER LANDON: Thank you so much.
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So, this opportunity comes your way.
I really loved the script.
I loved her character’s journey.
I was jonesing for something that was a little bit darker.
My husband jokingly calls this my “grown-up movie.”
MEGHANN FAHY: That’s funny!
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LANDON: It’s true.
[Laughs] I love the idea of making a fairly straightforward thriller but with some interesting little flourishes.
What did you see in the two of them that suggested to you, they could tick both boxes?
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LANDON: I just saw two really important factors.
I saw an incredible range and honesty in their work.
There’s such presence in what they do.
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FAHY: Thats not creepy.
But more specifically, the stunts and stuff.
I was really excited about that because I also had never done that.
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[And] I guess the whole experience.
I think that’s kind of the best version of both of those things.
Also, creatively, it was interesting just being confined to these seats for the entire movie.
I spent the entire movie in a chair, having a conversation about calamari and wine.
So, yeah, it was a tightrope creatively.
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You know what I mean?
These really subtle little things, whereas the audience is like, “That seems a bit odd.”
Just finding those in the moment and sort of rolling with it.
Kept me on my toes, and I liked it.
You just brought up that you love horror movies.
When I hear that, I can’t help but ask, whats your favorite scary movie?
SKLENAR: Oh, that’s tough to say.
I’ve been talking about it nonstop.
That movie is brilliant.
The horror thriller hits theaters later this month.
Its funny you say you havent done anything in the genre, because I was thinking aboutYour Monster.
That’s in a million genres!
But yes, true.
Top-tier genre movie right there.
FAHY: Oh my god, I love that movie.
LANDON: We wanted this restaurant to be as immersive as possible.
We wanted that for the actors.
And obviously, it’s a character in the movie, and so there’s a lot of specificity.
I mean, every tiny detail was present in that restaurant.
We had a trained wait staff.
We had real food.
We had fake food thatlookedlike our real food.
We created our own menu.We had a chef who actually created the menu for the restaurant.
Like, who was just sitting down?
Who was about to get up?
What course were they on?
There was an enormous amount of work that went into bringing this whole space and this restaurant to life.
Meghann and Brandon, is there any particular little detail that you really appreciated?
FAHY: I know what you want to say.
SKLENAR: The steak?
FAHY: [Laughs] Yeah!
SKLENAR: I ate a lot of steaks in this movie.
I did actually eat all the food in these scenes.
LANDON: He would eat when we weren’t rolling.
SKLENAR: I just kept eating the steaks.
I don’t blame you.
It looked like a good steak.
SKLENAR: Yeah, they were great.
I miss them dearly.
I was blown away by how they did it.
I mean, it’s wood, and they cut it all.
FAHY: So it was all hanging at different heights.
SKLENAR: Hundreds of them.
FAHY: It was really intricate.
SKLENAR: So tedious and thoughtful.
The detail pays off big time.
FAHY: Just the lighting.
I feel like the lighting was so spectacular.
You call it practical lighting, right?
We felt like we were just in the restaurant the whole time, apart from obviously there were cameras.
So we’ve hit production design and you mentioned your cinematographer.
I also wanted to ensure to mention your costume designer, Gwen [Jeffares].
I was wondering if you remembered any and if you could share one.
It was almost like summer camp for them.
And then there were some people who hated each other.
[Laughs]
FAHY: Yeah, it was like a whole little world happening.
LANDON: There was this whole thing going on in the back.
FAHY: Somebody quit.
LANDON: Well, somebody got fired.
SKLENAR: I was a background performer for years back in the day.
Its not easy work, and its often thankless.
SKLENAR: Its thankless and the lowest rung on the totem pole.
LANDON: These were joyful people.
I was like, “Oh, everyone’s just trying to get pumped up to get excited.”
Then I looked and realized that the entire background cast had learned a dance routine.
They were literally doing a flash mob on set.
It was so fun.
It was so cool.
I had tears in my eyes because they cared so much.
SKLENAR: Yeah, they were great.
I have to let you go.
Before I let you go though, Brandon, I have one question about an upcoming project for you.
SKLENAR: We wrapped on that, like, two weeks ago.
I’m really excited about it.
It was a wild, wild experience.
Sydney’s a powerhouse.
I’m just excited for people to see it.
Can you categorize it for us?
SKLENAR: It’s definitely a huge departure for Paul.
It’s dark, and it’s sexy, and it’s suspenseful, psychological.
We did kind of bring some humor to it at times just to add some levity.
It’s going to be great.
Droparrives in theaters nationwide on April 11.
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