Within hours, she found herself in New Orleans for a screen test. She ended up staying in the city as she quickly landed the role, and the film began shooting a week later. Although she’s appeared in films like “Slow West” and “The Light Between Oceans,” “Unhinged” marks her first feature film leading role.
And now there’s another twist for Pistorius. Her movie is one of the first to make its way back into American theaters as they begin to open across the country this week In the film, directed by Derrick Borte, Pistorius’ single mother Rachel finds herself and her son terrorized by Crowe’s mentally unstable Tom after she honks at him and refuses to apologize.
Currently, Pistorius is far away from such a fraught world, back home in New Zealand, where her family emigrated from South Africa when she was 12. “I’m in a safe place in the middle of nowhere surrounded by ocean, trees, mountains, cows, dogs and nature,” she reveals. “So I’m very lucky.” How does it feel to be one of the first movies back in American theaters since the pandemic? Or do you even think about that?
I probably wouldn’t have, if I hadn’t been told that by so many people. I’d probably forget and move on. But so much of this is new, even if you took the pandemic out of the situation – it’s a new experience being involved in a studio film, playing one of the leads. Add the world we’re in on top of all that and it’s very surreal. It’s sometimes hard to find the relevance in what you’re doing, but I think films and the movie theater to me have always been such an important place.
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