- 18/06/2025
Interview with Brec Bassinger, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, and Rya Kihlstedt
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00:00I just had never been part of something so huge,
00:02so I didn't know how we were going to film it at all.
00:04And then hearing they wanted to do as much practical,
00:06I was like, but how?
00:08There's like people on fire.
00:09They're like, yeah, we're going to set them on fire.
00:10I was like, OK.
00:19I've done a lot of CGI, visual effects stuff,
00:22having played a superhero.
00:23Like, I've talked to a tennis ball in a lot of scenes.
00:25And it's just hard.
00:27And while you can do it, like, this
00:28makes it so much more genuine, and I feel like easier.
00:33Because when you're standing next to someone who's actually
00:35on fire, there's not much acting to be had.
00:38You kind of know instinctually how to react.
00:40Yeah, scream, run, great.
00:42One thing that myself and so many friends
00:44of this franchise love is the fact that it really just
00:47ruins everyday, like, activities.
00:49And that's the goal.
00:50That's the goal.
00:50That's what we're trying to do.
00:51Exactly.
00:52I imagine most things I do probably could lead, you know.
00:55But you're OK with it.
00:56You seem like you have a comfort in that.
00:57I'm wildly optimistic about how things
01:00are going to turn out for me.
01:02Things just keep on going my way.
01:06So you're like, you're the Mr. Magoo.
01:07You just keep walking through disaster after disaster.
01:10Yeah.
01:10That was such a beautiful comparison.
01:13Richard is just like me.
01:15And that's what you call me.
01:17You know, I'm Mr. Magoo.
01:18When you call on the set, people are like,
01:19here's Mr. Magoo.
01:20Here's Magoo again.
01:21Here he is.
01:22Mr. Magoo, I'm Magoo.
01:24All of mine have already been used.
01:25I feel like I don't do anything unique enough
01:27to not have been used already.
01:28I, I, for a while I was doing like aerial silks
01:32and I feel like that has a pretty hot thing.
01:34Yeah, that would be a pretty high.
01:35I can't believe you've never told us
01:37that you were doing aerial silks.
01:39I can't believe you didn't know just by looking at me.
01:41Yeah, kind of doing my hair with like hot tools scares me.
01:44Yeah.
01:45It's, I mean, it's hot, like the heat.
01:47I don't know why it scares me.
01:48I mean, I know why it scares me.
01:49Anything plugged in, anything electrical,
01:50and it's hot, that scares me.
01:52And in the bathroom and, you know, water running.
01:54Yeah, bathroom, water, that's what I'm saying.
01:56See, I've been saying this.
01:57Water next to electrical cords is mortifying for me.
02:00That's fair.
02:01Mm-hmm.
02:02I haven't thought about this until you said that just now,
02:03but I'm a jump roper, and suddenly you asked that question,
02:06and I was like, my jumping rope is questionable, maybe.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Maybe stay away from staircases also, yeah, like, yeah.
02:15I'm not really good on staircases anyway, so that's fine.
02:19I'm a rock climber, and recently I actually had a near death,
02:23not near death, but a final destination experience.
02:26You did?
02:27So I screwed up my arm.
02:29That's why I wasn't going to go to the bowl.
02:30Oh, that's the injury?
02:31That was the injury.
02:31You were supposed to go bowling, and he couldn't.
02:33I fell from the top of a bouldering wall, and I hurt my elbow.
02:38So now I'm a little bit worried about that now.
02:41Sure, yeah.
02:41No, that's going to permanently be in the back of your head.
02:43You should maybe have been worried about that anyway.
02:45Right.
02:46I'm just going to say that's slightly on the extreme, but.
02:48Yeah.
02:49But I actually had to go get an MRI while we were filming,
02:54and I was, like, not kidding, like, full on panicking the entire time.
02:57It was a three-hour MRI, and, like, the doctor kept coming up.
03:01He's like, you're really freaking out.
03:02You're moving too much.
03:03Am I going to have to take you out?
03:04And I was like, I don't think I'm going to be able to do this.
03:06So now I have a deathly fear, no pun intended, of MRIs.
03:12Revolving doors.
03:13I live in New York, so that's, like, an everyday occurrence for me.
03:16And now I'm like, is there a normal door I can walk through, please?
03:20We call that, what can we ruin for people?
03:22Right, there you go, yeah.
03:23Which is basically very relatable things, like you said.
03:26Everyday things, a penny, a cup.
03:28How can we ruin it so that you can never look at that thing again?
03:31Basically like the second movie did for Logs.
03:34Sure, yeah.
03:35You can never look at a truck again the same way after seeing, if you see someone parking
03:39behind a logging truck on a highway, you know they haven't seen Final Destination.
03:43And so we wanted to kind of take that approach to everything that we could in the movie.
03:47If you could trade a death sequence with one of your co-stars, who would it be?
03:51I will just say that there is a person who dies very, towards the end of the film, with
03:59almost no rigmarole or special effects.
04:03And just for simplicity, just because of all of the technical stuff I did have to do, I
04:08would trade with that one.
04:09Just have an easier day.
04:11Candle snuffed out.
04:12Yeah, exactly.
04:13Just have an easier day.
04:14I would go with the, I think that the last death in this movie is so satisfying and beautiful.
04:22It's almost like poetry.
04:23Indeed.
04:24I'm picking that one.
04:25Indeed.
04:26Good stuff.
04:27I think I would take without saying anyone or who it is.
04:30No, talk about it.
04:31I don't think I'm allowed to.
04:32Go and check.
04:33Go and check.
04:34I would switch with someone who is blonde and is sitting in this room so you can figure
04:41that out for yourself.
04:42Sure.
04:43There you go.
04:44They're not even in front of the camera.
04:45They're actually over there.
04:46Well, none of us die in it.
04:47Yeah, we don't know.
04:48No one dies?
04:49I don't know.
04:50It was so different in the movie then.
04:51Yeah.
04:52We did.
04:53We did actually, if we could, we tried to show up for each other's death scenes.
04:56Yeah.
04:57Because they're fun as hell to watch.
04:58It felt like a birthday.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Literally.
05:01And they're intense.
05:02I mean, it was really, they were good days on set.
05:04I would love to be a part of the opening sequence.
05:07That would be, that would be cool of the movie.
05:09Yeah.
05:10When I signed onto the role, I had no idea what my role was.
05:13Oh, nice.
05:14Truly.
05:15I didn't know anything out of the context of like my three pages of audition scenes.
05:18When I got cast in the film that night, I went back.
05:21Actually, it was my first time ever fully watching a Final Destination movie.
05:24Because I'm a scaredy cat.
05:26With my whole family, they came over.
05:27We watched the first movie and they're like, well, what's your part in?
05:30And I was like, I don't know.
05:31So when I got the script and when I saw I was going to be part of that like big opening
05:35premonition disaster, I was like, heck freaking yeah.
05:38I was just so excited to get started.
05:40When we got started, I think there was a different disaster in the opening.
05:43But the team, you know, the producers and the writers were so eager to brainstorm and
05:48come up with new stuff.
05:49And the thing that we started with really was what is a visceral fear that we can tap into
05:55that can really freak people out.
05:57And we came up with this fear of heights, which is something that I suffer from.
06:01And so it was really fun to be able to exploit that and make the audience feel it on a big
06:07IMAX screen that they're 400 feet in the air and in danger.
06:11Sure.
06:12Richard is actually, he plays a background character in that.
06:16He's an Easter egg.
06:17Oh nice.
06:18He showed up in like a little bellhop outfit.
06:20Yeah.
06:21That's great.
06:22You could see him maybe.
06:23I don't know if you could see him.
06:24I don't think he made the cuts.
06:25I don't think he made the cuts either, but we all tried.
06:27He was there for support.
06:29There you go.
06:30Speaking with the trio in the other room, they actually mentioned something interesting
06:33about you, which is that you apparently have a little cameo beyond your role in the
06:38main film.
06:39They said that?
06:40I wasn't supposed to be there.
06:41That's why I was like, I was like, guys, I don't think you're allowed to say that.
06:45Richard is playing me in my...
06:47There you go.
06:48And now the cat's out of the bag.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Can you tell me about it?
06:52Yeah, I'm in the 60s.
06:57I'm in the guy's face.
06:59You never see my face.
07:00I just walked through.
07:01Yeah.
07:02And when they first get to the sky view, I just like, I ran out of the place.
07:07And he pitched himself for every scene in the movie.
07:09He was trying to get into every single one.
07:11In the middle of our scenes.
07:12And they were like, finally, they were like, okay, you can have one other one.
07:15I'm playing all three of us right now.
07:17Sure.
07:18Mission Impossible style.
07:19Some people might say this is unprofessional, but I felt like it made sense for my character.
07:23I actually didn't read the entire script because I felt like my character wouldn't know.
07:30Outside of like, I read up until the part where like I come back and I stop the disaster.
07:35But I didn't know what was going on with them because I didn't think it was essential for my character to know.
07:39And I actually haven't even seen the entire movie yet.
07:41I'm seeing it on Monday and I like can't wait.
07:43I've heard them like say little stories from their part and I'm like, that happens? That's crazy.
07:49Maybe that's not actually coming for our family.
07:52Because that would be crazy.
07:58One thing that's never just been addressed is the origin of the psychic visions and why these people are having these previews.
08:04In your mind, do you have an answer for why that is?
08:07No, and I'll tell you exactly why.
08:09If we answer how they happen, that means that you, as an audience member, may never have it.
08:15You might not have that moment.
08:17I would much rather have it be a mystery so that you never know whether you are capable or whether it may happen to you.
08:23It's sort of like midi-chlorians in Star Wars.
08:25Oh, I can't be a Jedi now.
08:27Why would you not want to be a Jedi?
08:28So we want everyone to leave the theater thinking, what if I have a premonition tomorrow and I'm perfectly capable of it because you never know when and you never know where.
08:36Do you almost project a personality on death to a certain degree?
08:39Oh, yeah.
08:40Like, I mean, can you describe that?
08:41Well, death is so damn clever and has a great sense of humor.
08:45I think that's why The Final Destination is also very funny.
08:49You know, it's gory, it's intense, it's scary, but it's also kind of hilarious.
08:53And that's because death is so clever and funny.
08:56Has a sense of irony, likes to plant things and then pay them off later.
09:01And for us, that was such a joy because in a way, you know, there's no antagonist besides the shots that make up death's presence.
09:11So in a way, we as the filmmakers are death.
09:15You know, we get to create that personality through the way we're building the shot design.
09:20Sure.
09:21So, yeah, that was a lot of fun to play with.
09:24And how do you think time has almost affected the audience's relationship with the franchise as well?
09:29Wow, Eric, that's a great question because I think the distance between the release of the last one and now, social media has taken off.
09:36And since everyone has a phone in their pocket that can both film video and take pictures, Final Destination moments become their own meme.
09:44Like everyone can have a close call and take a picture of it and post it.
09:47So we became a hashtag.
09:49We became like Xerox and it became a shorthand for people having a moment of deja vu or a close call.
09:54And every day people are generating memes that are personal to them.
09:57So we never quite left the popular lexicon.
10:00We were always there.
10:01And over time, it made us realize that there was not just a big opportunity, but our audience has sort of grown from the people that are your or my age who remember going early on.
10:10And now there are younger kids who just know it necessarily as, oh, Final Destination, that's like close calls and like a log truck and things.
10:16But now they can either explore the franchise up to this point or they can just go see Final Destination Bloodlines on its own because the movie exists as just a story.
10:26Now, there's lots of fun Easter eggs for the people who are fans, but you don't have to have the experience of watching the previous five to thoroughly enjoy Final Destination Bloodlines.
10:35I'm curious if you guys have realized the 25th anniversary that is coming up this week.
10:40Yeah, May 13th.
10:41May 16th.
10:42Or, yeah, the 25th anniversary of Flight 180.
10:44Yeah, that's right.
10:45I got this feeling.
10:46I saw death's plan.
10:48Was there any purposefulness in the release date by any chance or is that just complete coincidence?
10:53There was some talk of it.
10:54I mean, it ended up being just fate delivering this movie at the right time.
10:59But you can also see May 13th within the film itself in several different places.
11:03Yeah.
11:04Those numbers, you know, are an omen of things.
11:06Kind of like the 180.
11:07Yeah.
11:08Very cool.
11:09It was a huge opportunity and, you know, kind of challenge with this movie to make a movie for fans like the three of us.
11:18That would really be satisfying, but also for a new generation that has never seen a Final Destination movie.
11:23You know, the last one came out 14 years ago.
11:25So a four year old at the time is now 18 and they might be going to see their first Final Destination movie next weekend.
11:33So it was something we wanted to really explore for the fans.
11:38Fill the movie with lots of answers and Easter eggs.
11:41Every license plate in the movie.
11:43Every little note written in the margins of a book.
11:46Every thing on the walls of the tattoo parlor.
11:49All Easter eggs that we've put in for the fans.
11:52But if you don't get those things, you still can enjoy the movie just the same.
11:58Good luck.
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