Interview by Rafy Mediavilla, w/ actors Olivia Munn & Shea Whigham from Lionsgate movie, “The Gateway”, Out Today On Selected Theaters, Digital, & VOD. #TheGateway
Criticólogos:
What is it about Dahlias and Ashley case that makes it so important to him (Parker)?
Shea Whigham:
Yeah, well, that’s a good. You know, I guess I’d say that gives him meaning. You know what I mean? Parker is floundering at the top of the piece at the top of our film. Uh, can’t take care of himself. He cares deeply about Ashley. He knows what’s going on. He has a sense he’s got his intender in the air. And I think he has a real soft spot. I know he does. I’m not saying I think I know he has a real soft spot for Dalia and probably could have a little bit more, but you know we explored a little bit of that, but and I just think he really cares about him and that’s powerful. It’s something that you can play. I can really play and dig into that, you know, and then juxtapose that with my own father who’s not there. It’s interesting that. Mikeli chose me to go into Social work, you know? I like that, I think it works really well along with the thriller aspects of the of the film and the entertaining the film.
Criticólogos:
What was said about Dahlia that that really caught your eye of the script?
OIivia Munn:
Well, I love that this this script once you know it’s a blacklist script. So we already know about it’s, you know a really special script. But getting into the character, I just loved the idea of playing a character who is dumb. Who is so fearful and has so much anxiety and really is living like at the very edge of the Cliff and and it has to suppress all of that so that she can keep up appearances and take care of her daughter. Make sure her daughter is safe and that her daughter is not taken away and I really wanted her to feel I wanted it to. Feel that she she’s been holding her breath for years and she has to hold her breath of this entire movie. And the thing that I really loved about the script was Shay’s character. Truly, I thought that that was such a complex, interesting character and that he comes in with a really complicated past. And, in a very pure present. But he comes in. He’s like he understands my Dahlias world. He understands that world so much. I mean, he’s somebody who just wants to help and I love that, you know, I understand that feeling of like and I think we all do. You’re just trying, so you can really only depend on yourself or something, or you get so afraid to depend on anybody else ’cause. Or like I just have to take care of myself and she’s been in that place for so long that she has to take care of her and her daughter that she can’t even recognize when when Parker comes in to try to help, she can’t even recognize that as a as something that she can trust or lean on.
Shea Whigham:
I mean look Olivia had to go. She did dig deep deeper than she probably had in a while in it and and and it’s hard to do that. Man was really tough, yeah. When I call on zipping unzipping and you got in she’s she. Libby is smart, she’s smart, she’s off the charts. Smart, so strong, you have to go to this place. But you can’t fake. Get you can’t fake that. You can’t play at that. You gotta go there. And when you do you get the results. I think of the film. You know it’s amazing.
Criticólogos:
Through the last act, we saw something between Dahlia and Parker, In your opinion, what there’s something going on, where are their feelings involved there in in the last act?
Olivia Munn:
I think there’s something throughout the whole movie. I think that we I think that you know, we’ve talked about this before. Like are they just friends? Are they lovers? And honestly we feel like that they went there, they’re beyond what lovers are that that you know if the movie was going to continue, I think that they would find themselves in a very happy family.
Shea Whigham:
Dahlias is crushing on Parker, I think.
Olivia Munn:
Yeah obviously, obviously crushing on Parker.
Shea Whigham:
He’s like an eighth grade school girl. Hopping around, you know?
Olivia Munn:
An eighth grade little girl running for her life. No, but I think that deals with it.
Shea Whigham:
Worked off you know what I mean? You can’t fake that brother you know what I?
Olivia Munn:
Mean it wasn’t on the page, but it’s what Shae I felt for each other. Then you bring that and it’s honestly something we talked about, which is like. No, that’s not where we’re going to go, but it has been something that we’ve been asked about a lot, which I think is just I think people are just picking up on you. Know the chemistry that Shae and I have together.
