Summary
Samara Weavings firmly cemented herself as a genre icon.
Her latest,Borderline, is an outrageous and twisted delight.
Its her father, a film professor.
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I was 13, and I just said, Hey, how do you do that?
Because I want to do that.If someone can pay me to do that, what are we doing?
Let’s get going!
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He was just so supportive.
I mean, my whole family was.
And he’ll send me notes.He definitely had a pivotal role in how I got here.
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Because she was 18.
Weaving laughed and explained:
At 18, you just know everything.
You’re the smartest, I think, at 18.
Do you know what I mean?
I would just go to LA, and it would just all work out because why wouldn’t it?
It was Weavings work on the hugely popular Australian soap opera,Home and Away.
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So they were all lined up already and ready to go.
One particularly impactful early lesson learned?
The importance of having a good leader at the top of the call sheet.
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Fortunately, Weaving had some of the best of the best to show her the way in this respect.
Seeing Frances and how she would just greet everyone every day, and shed pal around with the crew.
She wouldn’t necessarily run off to the green room and hang out.
Borderline is a thriller released on March 14, 2025, featuring a romantic sociopath who escapes a mental institution to invade the home of a ’90s pop superstar. As he seeks affection, she must fight to survive in this tension-filled narrative exploring obsession and survival.
Weaving would get her chance to have that same influence on a film set.
In fact, shed get that chance many times over.
But it all began with the 2017 Netflix release,The Babysitter.
BecauseI still have a certain amount of imposter syndromeand sort of, Who let me in?
I think that’s kind of a moment where you go, Oh, okay.
This is like a real thing.
The success ofThe Babysitterand how that film sent Weavings star soaring was a very real thing indeed.
It was so much fun because it didn’t feel like work at all.
Jerry Lewis’s character is the one who gets kidnapped, and he’s calm about it.
There’s still fear.
What do we call a straight man now?
Voice of reason, I guess?
Surely theres a newer version of that word.
I’m playing the fear in a much sort of bigger way.
To further define her character and how she operated, Weaving turned to beloved 90s pop stars.
The sequel to the 2019 horror flick is on the way with Radio Silence returning as directors.
Ray, you just meet him and you go, All of this is just fantastic.
He just would go for it.
Jimmy would just be telling the camera operator, Just follow him around, becausehe was so free.
Weaving’s description of that moment in the film is spot-on.
This particular sequence features some downright wild and incredibly well-executed tonal shifts.
Did You Catch Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholsons Secret Song in Borderline?
“That’s Ray and I singing.
She continued:
Celine Dion?
We have to get someone else to sing.
But I think it’s the montage of us in the church, and Jimmy wrote this song.
I can’t remember the lyrics, but theyre something like, Sweet baby Jesus, we love you.
Looking for even more from Weaving onBorderlineand her journey in film and television thus far?
As he seeks affection, she must fight to survive in this tension-filled narrative exploring obsession and survival.
Borderlineis now playing in theaters.
