IR Interview: Stuart Gatt & Erin Moriarty For "Catching Dust" [Vertical] - Part II - video Dailymotion

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Writer/Director Stuart Gatt & Actress Erin Moriarty talk to The Inside Reel about challenges, environment and connection in regards to their new thriller from Vertical Entertainment: "Catching Dust".

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00:00I told you something was wrong.

00:13You mother...

00:14This has gone too far.

00:18Say something!

00:21You don't need to do this.

00:22It's a different world, because the one where you were talking, the one movie that came

00:39to my mind, and I'm not sure if you've seen it, Stuart, or you have, Aaron, is a movie

00:42called The Hotspot, with Don Johnson, Dennis Hopper, Hopper directed it, but it uses a

00:48very small area, an environment, that basically you feel the heat, you can feel the fear,

00:55you can feel the passion, the desire, you can feel all that in a small space, and you

01:01talk about...

01:02Intimacy.

01:03Yes, and intimacy, almost a brutality, even inside that trailer.

01:06They feel like plays to me, almost.

01:11I think it was, you know, part of the challenge with this is when you're four people in effectively

01:15one location, is how do you keep it constantly interesting?

01:18And I think you are leaning into those, you're trying to capture those moments of the environment,

01:24capture the quiet moments with the characters, to try and layer the storytelling, because

01:28it's...

01:29You know, when you're cut into a different location, it's easy, the audience is refreshed,

01:32they kind of have a moment to take a breath, and they start absorbing everything, but when

01:35you're looking at the same thing very regularly, it's easy to switch off.

01:38So we had to find those moments where it's a macro of Aaron's eye, it's her paint drops

01:44dropping into the water, it's those moments that help layer the story and can create...

01:48As you were talking about with the other film, it's like trying to create that kind of...

01:54That pressure chamber that's closing in and closing in and closing in.

01:57You're trying to use every tool to do that, it's not easy, but again, with what these

02:01guys were able to bring to the table, it made it a lot easier.

02:04When I was 12 and a half years old, my mama put $10 in my hand and told me to look after

02:18myself.

02:19I did as I was told, I looked after myself, the only way I knew how.

02:26And she's an artist, that expressionism, it becomes almost an abstract, you know, because

02:31as an actor, you can prep, but then you have to let yourself go.

02:34Aaron, can you talk about finding sort of that spontaneity within that?

02:39Because the thing is, with actors like, especially like I've talked to Jade so many times, there's

02:46a spontaneous and you know this, you can't do it as much probably on The Boys because

02:51of the effects, but can you talk about finding spontaneity in the moment?

02:55I always try and find it, I always try and find it and I try and do things differently

02:59to evoke it from someone else that I'm in a scene with, even if it's their coverage,

03:04because nothing mimics it, right?

03:06Even if it's the way you change, the way you deliver a line, it's just gonna, to me, a

03:11lot of my job is like, we're going to do many takes.

03:15And so therefore I need to find that every take, I'm not even reinventing it, I'm just

03:20remaining present with it, right?

03:22But the spontaneity in this, and it leading back to her artistry in this, I could totally

03:28relate to because it's intuition, right?

03:30It's abstract, but it's abstract because it's so intuitive.

03:34And that's what she's encouraged to follow.

03:36And it's the first time she's been enabled to follow that.

03:39And so there's something, again, with so much more meaning to that than anyone could realize

03:45except for her, which is like, this is something that means something to her, but it also implies

03:50trust your intuition and just go with, which has been a fear of hers because she's been

03:54conditioned to not trust her intuition.

03:57So I think the cool thing about acting is like, when I think about some of the moments

04:02where I felt most connected in the moment with the other actor, it's almost like I blacked

04:06out, it's like I wasn't present because it felt like, and yet I was.

04:16What business you got here?

04:18We wanted to get out of the city for a while.

04:20My gut tells me no good can come from those two.

04:23They about as much of a threat as a toothless dog.

04:26Say no game, Gina, I don't want you messing with them.

04:29But it's it's it's all intuitive.

04:31And it's just this like this dance between you and the other person or you and the, you

04:37know, whatever painting you're trying to create.

04:39But you really that is why the spontaneity for me specifically comes from the prep, because

04:47then I feel like I know who she is and how she would be here in that moment.

04:50And I think it's very, very easy to play characters and play them brilliantly.

04:55But ultimately make decisions that kind of come from ourselves more so than the

04:59characters. So that's why I do the work, the story leading up to the story that we

05:05observe her in so that I feel like I'm looking at things from her perspective.

05:10But it's all intuition and it's cool.

05:12There's a huge parallel and it's cathartic as well.

05:15It's very cathartic.

05:17And, you know, it's also heartbreaking because like I'm someone I grew up in New York

05:23City. Right. So I did this film.

05:25And the ironic thing was we had these two people playing New Yorkers and I'm such a

05:30New Yorker. So I love that I got to play a Texan and someone so different from that.

05:35But I grew up, you know, with an artist dad and a mom who, too, has very artistic

05:41tendencies. And I was I mean, in New York City, when you're growing up there, you're

05:47weird if you're not in therapy.

05:48Right. So to play someone suppressed who finds her her her soul just like spit out

05:57onto this painting and then have it be encouraged is like the first time someone does

06:03that for her. So no wonder she makes the wrong choice.

06:07But I think that's what it's all about.

06:09What's wrong, what's right when you're in these situations.

06:13My mama was right.

06:15Always stretching for things I can't reach.

06:19I was alone. I was really scared.

06:25If you hurt somebody and you don't stop him, then that's on you forever.

06:31All we got to do is play cool.

06:37You think I'm blind, don't you?

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