Join WhatsApp Channel
Join Telegram Channel“This isn't just another robot movie: it's not the AI that's gone wrong, it's the AI that's doing what's right…”
Drew Hancock (My Dead Ex And Suburgatory) presents this week the trailer for his first feature, Companion. The team of producers behind BarbarousRaphael Margules, JD Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee, was won over by his story of a robot like no other. As you can see in the video, Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, Heretic), plays an android who is not even aware of being an AI. When she realizes that her boyfriend “Perfect” (Jack Quaid of The Boys) wants him harm, she takes back her “life” in his hands… and turns violently against him.
Lukas Gage (Smile 2), Megan Suri (My first times), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) and Rupert Friend (Asteroid City) complete the cast of this horrific production to be discovered in French theaters via New Line/Warner Bros. from January 29. The team deciphers its challenges just below the video:
Doesn't the trailer show too much? “Absolutely not, responds Jack Quaid to Entertainment Weekly. Personally, I didn't see any of the twists and turns coming when reading the script, which is one of the best I've ever read, in fact. Note that this is not necessarily a film that relies on a big reveal, but rather on several small twists, which are always refreshing.”
The director, for his part, insists on the innovative aspect of his concept, ensuring that he does not copy the recent successes of M3GANFor example :
“We wanted to show the public that it was a film about a robot, while finding a way to make it clear that it was not about 'from another robot movie'you see? It would be so easy to say: 'it looks like M3GAN' Or 'it's like the Megan Fox movie (Subservience)'. This isn't just another robot movie: it's not the AI that's gone wrong, it's the AI that's doing what's right. We wanted to show straight away that it would be different. Our film only really begins with this revelation. It's a reflection on self-discovery and it's also a break-up film, which talks about a woman finding autonomy by discovering herself.”
The two main actors quickly adhered to the concept of Companionthey explain to the American media. Jack Quaid refers to his character, Josh, as “real knothead”and he says he can't wait to see the public hate him:
“A lesser film would probably have made my character the protagonist and Iris the antagonist who goes crazy, something like that, where Josh would have had to save the day… Whereas here, I like that this film is a slightly more realistic version where Josh is doing all of this for very selfish reasons I love that the most human character ends up being the robot in this story – it's a very cool twist within. these kinds of films.”
“This is clearly a very codependent and toxic relationship, and she doesn't know it, explains Sophie Thatcher about her character. Iris really lost herself in this relationship, she doesn't really know who she is. Plus, she wants to please so much that she doesn't even know what she wants. I think it's a very human feeling. In a relationship, you can be blinded by reality because you are so in love with the person. I mean she was programmed to be like that, it’s stronger than her.”
The actress finally talks about her “craziest day” on the board:
“It's in the trailer, it's the one where I get dragged through the mud… there were so many crazy days on this film, I could have chosen others, but this one- It was still complicated to shoot, being covered in mud can be a little degrading, but also very strong, and strangely, I'm starting to get used to it (laughs) – she just shot this kind of sequence for Hereticwith Hugh Grant, editor’s note. I believe that almost all of my projects are blood and mud films, and I must say that in this respect, this one is even stronger than the others. The amount of blood I had on me exceeded all previous ones. I don't think we can go much further than that…”
“I am privileged!” Jack Quaid admits to being a “nepo baby”