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Diario Las Americas
  • 18/7/2024
En DIARIO LAS AMÉRICAS conversamos con Jonathan Rosenthal, protagonista y productor de The Abandon. En la entrevista nos contó su experiencia dentro del set, las peripecias que tuvo que realizar al no tener un doble de riesgo y todo su proceso creativo para encarnar a su personaje
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00:00Amigos de Diario de las Américas, me encuentro con Jonathan Rosenthal, protagonista y productor
00:09de The Abandon, lo nuevo que nos trae Lionsgate a las salas de cine.
00:20The Abandon is a very minimalistic movie, one character, one location, we have some
00:26dialogues but more than 50% of the movie is about you struggling alone doing a lot of
00:33physical stunts.
00:35As an actor it was as much a testament to my resolve I think as it was a learning experience,
00:47never done a movie like this where I was forced to find so much within the material and within
00:54myself versus relying on other actors or props or sets and this and that.
01:01And just with the limited shooting time that we had it was a hustle, I think we were doing
01:07about seven pages a day for those of you at home, typically you shoot one to two pages
01:13a day so there was just zero room for error.
01:16And then on top of it, like you said, it's a very physical movie so it was taxing, it
01:20was tiresome and at any given moment there was something that could have gone wrong
01:25that badly didn't.
01:33How much time did you have to make the rehearsals and how much time was like the whole shooting
01:40of the movie?
01:42So we rehearsed for about three months, we rehearsed it much like a play so that it was
01:47just it was embedded in all of us, with the director Justin Sutherland and my co-star
01:52Tamara Perry that we kind of knew it like clockwork that way when we came time to actually
01:57shoot it was more just interacting with the sets and figuring out how to place what we
02:03had already done in that.
02:05We had 15 days of shooting with one day of pickups on another location which is the shortest
02:12amount of time.
02:13As a producer I looked at this and was like I don't know how we do this and as an actor
02:17I was like I don't know how I can do this but we did it.
02:29Also as a producer you're facing many challenges.
02:34I don't want to spoil anything but something is going on with the room that makes the
02:40dynamic of that specific space very complex.
02:45Can you give me some highlights of the process of creating this ominous space?
02:52Yeah, so I mean we had a really amazing crew up in Spokane, Washington, a lot of them
02:58were coming off the show Z Nation.
03:00We built four different sets that all could do four very different things and when you
03:07kind of piece them together it gives a more cohesive fluid effect that you see on screen
03:14each of which was terrifying in their own right as an actor who was doing his own stunts.
03:20There were days where I was like you want me to do what now?
03:23Okay, and I'm going to have that little pad to crash on?
03:28Okay, great, yeah, let's do it.
03:32It's like they're testing us and our bodies and our minds.
03:37The Abandoned is like this mix of sci-fi, psychological thriller but beneath that we
03:45have a very powerful drama about facing the past or fears.
03:49What made you fall in love with the script and make you want to participate in this film?
03:58Great question.
04:01I'm a huge tried and true sci-fi nerd.
04:04I always have been, always will be.
04:07I had the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS and watched them until they all literally broke.
04:14And I'm equally a horror buff and I think because of that I've developed a certain degree
04:19of pickiness, for lack of a better word, when it comes to films and certain stereotypes
04:28or tropes.
04:29I can't stand in a movie when a character does something simply because the story needs
04:34them to do it.
04:35Whether it be, oh, the front door has to open so the bad guys can come in, therefore
04:40we'll have the eight-year-old character come and open the front door.
04:45All of those tropes are just such a cop-out for me and I think what drew me to this script
04:49was that it seemed very much devoid of all of those things.
04:53And in films that you could try to draw a parallel to, but personally I don't think
04:59there really is a parallel beyond the obvious.
05:02Films like The Cube, where sure, it's both a cube, but they're totally different films.
05:07Where you have these characters that, and no offense to the writer that wrote The Cube,
05:13but you have these characters that are very two-dimensional, they are the quirky person
05:21that loses their mind, the edgy guy that turns into the villain, and none of them really
05:26have a three-dimensional existence or life.
05:29And the character Miles, for me, off the first read of this script, was totally opposite
05:35of that.
05:36You have a guy that, sure, is a soldier and is in this immediate space that has to navigate
05:43that, but the layers of life that he's forced to face, just as any of us would.
05:50As soon as we're isolated, what's the expression?
05:53When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back.
05:56Needs to, right?
05:58Yeah, yeah, exactly.
06:00This is very much a story and saga of that, of this guy that is, when he's forced to face
06:07with himself, has to look within, and suddenly these things that he's been masking by just
06:14moving through life come up, and he has to face them.
06:18And I think that, the first time I read the script, I was like, I get it, I love this
06:22genre, I love this new take on the genre and story, and what a challenge to try to bring
06:28all of those elements together.
06:30Hold on, what are you trying to figure out?
06:32Trying to get info out of me?
06:34We gotta be together on this.
06:36We gotta find a way out.
06:37Please come watch The Abandoned.
06:39It is unlike any film you think you've watched.
06:42It's unlike what you think it is.
06:45And it's a wild ride.
06:47Keep you on the edge of your seat, and it won't disappoint.

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