Rain Check | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Go behind the scenes of the short film Rain Check, a genre-bending, cerebral drama that was plagued by on-set tension an | dG1fWG9qbVpscGtHZzQ

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00:00Can you check if it's raining?

00:09No.

00:10It is not raining.

00:12When Max approached me with the script,

00:14I honestly couldn't believe what I was reading.

00:16I mean, you look at the title,

00:18and you think it's going to be about rain,

00:20about a literal rain check.

00:23And then you keep reading.

00:25Man, I was thrown for a loop.

00:28I mean, leave all your preconceived notions about rain checks at the door.

00:32I remember Nico saying his line and just being like,

00:35oh, don't mess it up, don't mess it up.

00:37It's going to be perfect.

00:38And it just came out.

00:40And yeah, it was.

00:42It was perfect.

00:43Despite Alex's really shitty performance,

00:45I was able to cobble together something serviceable in post.

00:49And I think it really goes to show

00:51that you can really craft a film in the edit.

00:54because I just had to go through countless unusable takes from Alex, of course.

00:59Alex, why'd you ruin it by laughing?

01:01You're making Nico break now.

01:03That's my bad.

01:04You're jeopardizing this whole thing, okay?

01:07I think Max went with the 18th take,

01:10which, you know, you really could have used any of them,

01:13and I think they all would have yielded the same results.

01:16But, you know, he's the genius.

01:18Really, the whole film hinged on Alex's line.

01:21Like, that was the climax.

01:22That's what everything was building up to.

01:23But really, I mean, Nico carried this thing.

01:26I have to say, like, working with Nico,

01:27it was like working with a true artist,

01:29like, in every sense of the word.

01:30You're a genius!

01:31When you get into a character like that,

01:33someone with so much hurt and want,

01:40it's hard to let go.

01:42And that was hard for me

01:44every time the camera's cut.

01:46He really embodied that character.

01:49And, you know, there was so much pathos to that character.

01:51And I know it was a little hard for him

01:53to get out of character afterwards.

01:55Can you check if it's raining?

01:56I just think the character really affected him.

01:57Yeah.

01:58Yeah, me too.

01:59Well, you didn't really have much of a character.

02:01Hey, can you check if it's raining?

02:02It's a shame that Alex couldn't quite match his energy,

02:04but, you know, when you're working with an indie film,

02:06you're gonna have restraints.

02:08Like, you can't always cast the people that you want.

02:10You know, we had to shoot it in one day,

02:12and, like, on a shoestring budget of, like, 5K.

02:14We had quite the bond on set.

02:16I couldn't have asked for a better environment.

02:18Damn it, Alex!

02:19He gave you gold!

02:21He gave you gold!

02:23That was a gold intake!

02:25That's my bag again.

02:27I was just so honored to work with both of these people,

02:31and, you know, I couldn't have asked for a better product

02:33to be a part of.

02:34But, yeah, it was an honor to work with Nico,

02:38and I hope that I get to work with him again.

02:41You get out of it, and you know it's worth it.

02:43You're making something that really speaks to people,

02:46because we're all checking for rain.

02:51And, uh, I really hope people enjoy watching it

02:55as much as we enjoyed making it.

02:56And, uh, I really hope people enjoy watching it

02:58as much as we enjoyed making it.

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