A lifeless body with gängtatuering in the neck was found at a dried-up river bed of cement somewhere in Los Angeles. Tattoo river up unhealed wounds for Nicole Kidmans constantly bakfulla detective and singelmamma to a close to the beach 16-year-old daughter.
In just over two decades, Erin Bell been of traumatic memories from a disastrous attempt to infiltrate a rånarliga together with her male partner Chris (played by Sebastian Stan). Over the years she has gradually turned into a hard-boiled, hyenaliknande zombie with sun-damaged skin and tangled häxfrisyr.
” We wanted to tell a story that seemed to be a thing, but then turned out to be something completely different. The idea was to force the viewer in Erin Bell’s injured psyche to review her on the basis of new points of view. The whole idea was to create a more female, circular and reflective story – in contrast to today’s often fast, linear stories that rarely looks backwards. We had never done the movie with a male character – the story has already been told, ” says the director in a hotel room in central London.
her husband Phil Hay, who wrote the script along with his skrivarpartner Matt Manfredi.
” We wanted to make a drama about a detective who investigates himself, both in a literal, metaphorical and spiritual sense. Erin Bell is a very complicated woman who lives between the past and the present, ” says Phil Hay, who together with Manfredi also wrote the script to Kusama’s ”Aeon Flux” (2005) and “The invitation” (2015).
Shortly after the turn of the millennium was Karyn Kusama their breakthrough with the adrenaline-fueled Brooklyn-drama ”Girlfight” where Michelle Rodriguez plays a problemtyngd young woman who uses boxing as självterapi. Ever since then Kusama has been obsessed with the feminist stories of strong women who are forced to deal with grief, personal loss and trauma.
” We need to explore these women that are specific and do not fit into the normal template of how women should be. If I had not been able to relate to Erin Bell, I had probably not done ”Destroyer”, says Karyn Kusama.
Karyn Kusama. Photo: Katie Jones/Variety/REX
also carries Karyn Kusama on traumas from the past. In his early 20s killed two of her closest of heroin – brother Kevin and her closest skrivarpartner at the film school at New York University. In addition, she experienced how the people in the vicinity succumbed to drugs or became victims of the AIDS epidemic.
as several of Kusama’s previous films operated ”the Destroyer” by a female anger. With equal parts self-loathing and desire for revenge gives Erin Bell on the lookout for ligaledaren. In the pursuit of truth using the livströtta Erin Bell, unconventional methods. In one of the scenes she is even willing to give a dying robber a last handjobb in exchange for information.
”Destroyer” is most related to my first film, ”Girlfight”. Both films have a strong woman at the centre of which the audience may not really sympathize with. For me, it is both a drama about women in different ways, fighting to reconcile with themselves. In ”Girlfight,” for Diana Guzman himself through the body, and finds to end that life still is worth living. Erin Bell is a more both physically and mentally damaged character that has more difficult to accept life, ” says Kusama.
”Destroyer” is an LA noir that for the most part takes place in the corrosive natural light and move in the city’s rawest environments beyond the beaten track and tourist destinations; endless highways, dull betongviadukter, dry riverbeds, tented camp with homeless people, dirty bars. The recording was preceded by a meticulous search of suitable filming locations, which was partially hidden or difficult to access. During the 33-day shoot, filmed the team in nearly 40 different locations.
Los Angeles in all its glory, but it is Nicole Kidman who carries the entire film on his shoulders: ”A very good Nicole Kidman is playing a very bad woman”, was the naivistiska summary when the New York Times reviewed ”the Destroyer”. Nicole Kidman Golden Globe-nominated for her performance, but from the beginning it was Kusama not entirely convinced that she was absolutely right for this role.
Nicole Kidman as Erin Bell. Photo: Everett Collection/IBL
, had Kusama really expected a younger actor to match the script right. At the same time she was afraid to miss a historic chance to be working with of the world’s most celebrated hollywood stars. In addition to Kidman gave Erin Bell ten extra years of life experience, was impressed by Kusama to be convinced of her open-uncertainty in the face of the character: ”I really don’t know how I’m going to make Erin Bell, and the feeling has made me obsessed with”.
to create credibility around the wan, the character is required the förvandlingsnummer. For the recording showed Kusama video clips with strutting hyenas to push Kidman in the right direction.
” I was also very aware that Nicole is tall, has perfect skin and one of the world’s most famous faces. I was prepared for tough övertalningskampanjer but she was the first to realize that Erin Bell would not look like Nicole Kidman, smiles, Karyn Kusama.
Together with a make-up artist began to experiment to create a woman with the right kind of solskadade skin, the haggard expression and lifeless eyes.
– Nicole wanted to take it a step further and became obsessed with the idea to create a face that tells a story of självförsummelse, ” says Karyn Kusama.
I was prepared for tough övertalningskampanjer but she was the first to realize that Erin Bell would not look like Nicole Kidman.
It still surprised her the most was Kidmans analysis of Erin Bell.
” I thought that Nicole – just as I – would like to talk about things like the fury and female anger. But she said the essence of Erin was that she was driven by so much guilt and shame that had poisoned her whole being. It was a much more nuanced reading of the character than what I first had seen, “she says and makes a short pause:
” But we were both agreed that the film’s emotional heart is Erins relationship with his 16-year-old daughter that she all the time have neglected.
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