Comes off a roaring premiere at SundanceThe Alex Russell celebrated the premiere of Los Angeles of its directorial debut “Lurker” On Wednesday, August 20, just release a few days before the whirlwind’s thriller in theaters. The film Look carefully at the twisted and often deteriorated celebrity nature in Los Angeles. Théodore Pellerin Plays Matthew, a socially obsessed videograph that gets confused with a rising pop star, Oliver (Archie waste).
Russell, who comes from the TV world as a writer and producer at “The Bear”, as well as a producer at “Beef”, says he had a lot to learn to come to the film page. “Well, the indie film is like the wild west,” he told Indieview.
“Year goes by, you don’t know if it will be done, it falls apart, comes back together, you have a different role, you have a different crew, you have a different script and you go to a festival raw – it’s a huge game. Everyone spent all this money. You don’t know if someone cares about this movie or if it is horrible and then you will leave.” Badly ended by buying the movie from the festival In a reported center of digit business.
The film has original music, produced with the help of such as Kenny Beats, Dijon and Rex Orange County. Although the latter was rumored to be an inspiration for the film’s chart toppare, Russell prefers to keep some direct real inspiration mysterious. “It’s anyone you think it would be on the playlist.”
“Dominic Fike was an inspiration, (but) not like a person, really, just like a figure,” Russell continued. “We really had to beat the accusations that this was about a person in particular, because it should have, I think, really shrunk the reach for everything. The more we worked with it with Archie, the more it was just disguised, as a merger of all these different artists. It also made it unique.
Pellerin and Makekwe reunited here after they both show up in Ari Aster “Beau is scared” in 2023. But they never met when they filmed that project. “We didn’t, I’m there for a second,” joking Pellerin. Both actors jumped on the chance to work with Russell and praised the joy of being able to work with a first director. “The way he led us was very, very surprising, especially for the first time director,” Pellerin said.
“I was very, very surprised at him,” he continued. “I loved how he led us. He never made us feel that we had to achieve one thing in particular. I know it is a trop, a little, for actors to talk about freedom in acting, but it is really true that he directed us in a way that felt like” try it now and now try it. “I think it was proof of how big a writer he is, because I think he wrote about the scenes as new elements (developed), which is the reality in fiction that was recorded, and I just loved it.”
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned from Alex is that you really have to go into something that trusts your filmmaker and trusts your director,” recalled Madekwe. “Alex had never made a movie before and this movie could have been so many different things. It couldn’t have worked in so many different ways, but I only had full faith in Alex as a filmmaker, as a person, as a man, as an artist, and I knew what he wanted to do. It paid off.”
Zack foxLong Time Friend of Russell, plays Swett, a close friend in Oliver’s Entourage who often makes fun of Matthew. While the director wrote the film under the pandemic, he lost Fox to see if he was interested in playing a role in the function. “How he brought me into it was just like ‘Hello, I write this movie about the last ten years of my life, in and around music and entertainment people, and I have this character that I think you would be perfect to play.’ When he originally sent me the script, I felt attacked, because I was like, “Swett is a bullying. And he was just like, “No, but I trust you as an actor to bring this up, because I had seen some of the real references.”
Earlier this year, Fox made a como in Doechii’s music video for “Denial is a river” as “the old guy from 2019.”
“I have to give credit where credit is due,” he said he was drawn into it. “It was 100% possible by Cam Hicks and Justin Grant, Alias Sushiboy Mexico, they brought me into the fold. My job as an actor is just to pull up and shoot the ball where you say I should shoot it, so hopefully I knocked it out of the park.”
Mubi releases “Lurker” in theaters August 22. Check out the trailer here.
