(25 Jan 2025)
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Park City, Utah – 25 January 2025
1. Callum Turner posing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Callum Turner, actor – on doing "Masters of the Air" before this:
(Reporter: "So is there like something interesting to you about maybe military projects or is that just kind of a coincidence?")
"It’s just a coincidence because I’m, it’s all about a director and Alia sent me a message. And I got this cool idea with my friend and I watched their short film that they made, ‘Shako Mako’. And immediately I thought, I got to do this. If it was about going to the moon, I would have done it too."
(Reporter: "Did you know about these towns?")
Callum Turner: "No, not at all. They are fascinating. And I’m bombastic and ridiculous in a sense. And I was making a comedy in that world is really, really special."
3. Alia Shawkat giving interview
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alia Shawkat, actor – on choosing roles:
"You know, I think any person, especially in the time we’re living in, it’s easy to feel a little helpless. So as an artist, you hope that you’re at least doing the job, which is like commenting on these things that are happening. And therefore art is getting a little crazier because the world is getting pretty wacky. So in that way, I just hope to be reflecting what’s happening internally and what I see. Yeah, but you know, I do my best."
5. Hailey Gates posing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hailey Gates, director/writer:
"Well, I come from the doc world, so and the experimental theater world, so I like kind of a weird melange. But I initially was trying to make a doc, and then I thought the world was ripe for satire and decided to make a military industrial complex, romantic comedy."
(Reporter: "Did you talk to anybody from the military? Like, was there any pushback?")
Hailey Gates: "Is there pushback about the movie? I don’t know. I don’t know if they know if I made it, But it’s, you know, in some ways it is, I mean, there is so much, they have such a dark sense of humor, and I tried to capture that. So I hope it makes them laugh."
7. Shawkat, Gates and Turner posing
STORYLINE:
Callum Turner and Alia Shawkat premiered "Atropia" at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday.
It’s a film that the producers would rather audiences experience blind, but the brief synopsis is that Shawkat plays an aspiring actor in a military role-playing facility, who falls for a soldier playing an insurgent.
Turner, who also stars in WWII mini series "Masters of the Air," said he was excited to work with writer-director Hailey Gates, and her star Alia Shawkat.
"It’s all about a director and Alia sent me a message. And I got this cool idea with my friend and I watched their short film that they made, ‘Shako Mako’. And immediately I thought, I got to do this. If it was about going to the moon, I would have done it too."
Filmmaker Gates explains that she had set out to explore her idea in a very different way.
"I initially was trying to make a doc, and then I thought the the world was ripe for satire and decided to make a military industrial complex, romantic comedy," Gates smiled.
Asked whether she has heard any reaction to the film from the military, she noted, "I don’t know if they know if I made it," adding, "they have such a dark sense of humor, and I tried to capture that. So I hope it makes them laugh."
Produced by Luca Guadagnino, "Atropia" also stars comedian Tim Heidecker and Chloë Sevigny.
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