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‘I Don't Have A Backup Plan’: How 'MaXXXine’s' Director Pulled Off A Shoot At One Of Cinema’s Most Iconic Locations
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21/01/2025
Interview with Moses Sumney, Ti West, Giancarlo Espositio
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It's not just an ode to horror cinema of the 20th century,
00:04
but just all cinema.
00:05
You have so many different references from
00:07
Giallo to Chinatown to Blade Runner.
00:10
I'm curious just kind of how much of that was first draft design
00:13
versus like how much kind of came organically as the film came together.
00:16
Most of it was probably in the scripts.
00:18
I mean, I think to set the third movie in Hollywood
00:20
and to take it as far as we took it in scope-wise,
00:24
you know, this trilogy is sort of about cinema in a way.
00:26
It's about a lot of things, but one thing is about,
00:29
you know, if in X they're trying to make a movie
00:31
and it's what it's like to make a low-budget movie
00:32
and be outside of the system and outside of Hollywood,
00:35
but still be able to try to carve your own path via movies.
00:38
And then Pearl is someone who's sort of looking to the screen
00:41
as a hopeful thing and how her life could be different
00:43
if only she had a life like in the movies and the glamour.
00:46
And then now in Maxine, she's actually here.
00:48
She's in the belly of the beast.
00:50
And, you know, I just wanted to embrace that to its fullest.
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Were there any ideas that you had that you weren't able to kind of use?
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I mean, you get to use, like, the Bates Hotel, the Psycho House.
01:01
We were very fortunate that, even today, I still think about that
01:05
because we had to get Universal to say okay, which they did,
01:07
and then we had to get the Hitchcock Estate to say okay.
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And it was in the script.
01:10
So I remember it was the first thing, Jacob Jaffe, the producer,
01:13
that was the first task because I was like,
01:15
I don't have a backup plan.
01:16
There's not a better location that we could go to and talk about.
01:20
And because we referenced that in X,
01:22
it was such a payoff to come all the way back around and be there.
01:25
And, you know, credit to both of them.
01:28
And it was very surreal to shoot there and to photograph it
01:30
and to not be making Psycho but to be photographing it.
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It was very surreal.
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