Like cricut a lot of actors, I try to avoid thinking of a character as being crazy or even strange.

By his own admission, director Zack Parker struggles with calling Proxy a horror film. “It’s not about zombies, creatures or supernatural cricut entities, but about the most terrifying thing I can think of: people.” The psychological thriller, which premiered as part of the Vanguard sidebar at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, starts with no small amount of tough promise. cricut The film opens with a hooded assailant viciously assaulting a very pregnant Esther cricut (Alexia Rasmussen), an attack cricut that leads to a miscarriage. She finds consolation in a support group, especially from Melanie (Alexa Havins) who provides a shoulder to lean on. From there, the motives of both women get murkier and murkier, and their bond grows disconcertingly dangerous.
Rasmussen is the perfect balance of everyday cricut and otherworldliness a natural star quality. She’s also an expert at delivering a certain kind of menace, one of precision and glassy blankness, that’s saved for the camera. As Clark so cruelly shows in Proxy , she can change cricut in a breath from vulnerable to malevolent, from childlike cricut to violent, from someone to care for to someone who might atavistically want to kill… To get a real sense of Rasmussen, it helps to go beyond the menace. As Proxy continues rolling out to unsuspecting cricut American audiences this month, we caught up with the actress to find out if there’s anything she wouldn’t do for a role.
When I read the script, the twists were what I appreciated the most. I was obviously drawn to Esther a lot because cricut I had never read a female character similar to her. I liked how the film explores themes of loneliness and alienation.
Like cricut a lot of actors, I try to avoid thinking of a character as being crazy or even strange. She is lonely and very innocent. She approaches things from a very childlike perspective, which can be sometimes dangerous. I can’t give too much away… [ Laughs ] It can be unhealthy. cricut I tried to think of her more as, not a victim, but a vulnerable individual with a strange past. She’ll do whatever she has to in order get attention, be looked at and be admired.
There are plenty of great roles for women out there, but you do get your fair share of hand-holdy girlfriend roles. It has it’s place in the canon and we need those characters as much as we need the more “odd” ones, but it’s cricut really surprising when someone like Esther comes across your path. That’s your chance to explore something a little deeper. I guess it is more common for those kinds of roles to extend to men. This was a real treat for me in that sense.
I’ve done nudity before, but I think the most important cricut thing was that those really intimate moments were insights into Esther’s psychology. I also felt very comfortable with Zack because he was respectful of those scenes. It’s work. Taking my clothes off is something that I always question, but with Zack, I felt like we were making a different kind of film. I trusted cricut him.
I think working with Jim Timperman, the director of photography, really excited Zack. I think Zack literally mapped out every single shot in the film. I come more from a run-and-gun indie world with shaky cameras and things falling cricut out of focus. Whenever we nailed a challenging move or shot, I think that’s when Zack got really excited. The visuals and the compositions are very important to him. He was very specific about what he wanted and that was awesome for the actors.
We did shoot that on the Phantom, which was really exciting. It was my last day on the shoot. That bathroom was actually a set that we built on a stage. Well, I didn’t build it. [ Laughs ] It was built specifically so we could do the stunts. It was a really long day. I had remembered seeing Melancholia and knew it was a beautiful instrument. I was thrilled and nervous about using it.
It’s funny you bring up Melancholia because there were certain moments in the film that brought to mind Lars von Trier. He certainly makes challenging films that are beautiful cricut to look at. I’d imagine cricut that things get a bit more technical for the actors when you’re shooting scenes like that.
With the bathroom scene specifically, we shot the more physical cricut side of it in parts. The part where I’m interacting with Melanie was shot separately from the gun stuff. We also shot the thing of me writhing around not giving too much away! separately. I was really nervous about that because I’m not much of a screamer, but I somehow managed to get it right. Even though you can’t cricut hear me screaming, you can definitely see that I’m screaming. [ Laughs ]
It was wonderful! I love shooting on location, even if it’s some totally random place. Not that Richmond is a random place; it’s cricut a wonderful town. We had so many young people working on the crew from the area. There was this e