Going practically in “The Legend of andi” was important for director Isaiah Saxon – and it turned out that it was also true for A24.
Saxon was asked about the benefits of leaning into the puppet in her upcoming film about a girl who becomes friends with a foreign species called one and in rather than creating them through VFX. The director explained that he did not have to do anything convincing for the studio that using dolls was the right choice for history.
“No challenge,” Saxon said at Thewrap’s Sundance Studio presented by the World of Hyatt. “Everyone loved the idea of going practical. The challenge was just to make it happen and make it look convincing and real and deliver that kind of performance. “
He added the process that “It is one thing to get two actors to sync in a scene and really respond to each other and present, and it is a completely different thing to get a doll with an animatronic face run by seven people at the same That performance and having the synchronized with the best takes a child at the same time. It is the hardest thing you can imagine. When we could make them together in a two -shot, and it worked, it was just pure magic.
Emily Watson, recently star in HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy”, plays Dasha in “The Legend of and in.
“However, I think it is a will for the puppies and John Nolan, who was the creator of the physical and in, because some of these puppets are as good as an actor as we are,” added Watson. “Their understanding of subtlety and shade is just amazing.”
A24 is also a distributor who loves his project-specific merch and does not fear: When asked if there were chatting about the physical and- commodity, Saxon said quickly: “Of course.”
See the entire interview with the role “The Legend of andi” in the video above.
