Between rocking the Cannes film festival with her surreal, ultraviolent serial-killer thriller and picking up the Palme d’Or, director Julia Ducournau and cast members Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Landon found time to speak to Deadline about the genre mash-up that divided critics but united Spike Lee’s jury.
After that, she said, “it’s really a patchwork of thoughts. There was really nothing super-clear like, ‘Oh yeah, I got it, I got my film.’ Not at all. [For example] I thought about a nightmare that was recurring. I don’t have it anymore, but that I used to have, of me giving birth to car engine pieces. It was incredibly distressing, but I always thought, ‘That’s a nice image. I like that.
Recruited via Instagram for her androgynous looks, Rousselle explained that she’d worked hard for the role, which required a lot of punishing physicality. “I prepared both physically and, let’s say, mentally with Julia,” she said. “We rehearsed a lot with monologues from. We worked on that just because my character doesn’t speak at all. And so we would just work on a range of emotions like that.
Just as surprising as Ducournau’s storytelling is the appearance of Vincent Lindon, an actor usually seen in more sober French dramas. He said, “Julia told me, ‘I’m writing a script right now—I started it two years ago, but I want you. It’s for you, you have to do it. If you don’t do it, I will still do the movie. But I hope you will say yes.’ It’s the first time in a long, long time that a director has given me such a gift.
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