Gore Verbsinski’s Anti-AI Movie Let Its Cast Have Fun With Stunts [INTERVIEW]
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hits theaters this weekend. The Mary Sue’s Rachel Leishman sat down to chat with Gore Verbinski and the rest of the cast.
In their interview, the director shared that he felt empowered to really let these actors explore the depths of their characters. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die features a mercurial bunch of survivors. Fan-favorites like Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz, Juno Temple and more are all just trying to make sure a terrible future doesn’t come to pass. It’s a wicked good time. And, the fun these performers were having shows up on-screen. Here’s what the filmmaker had to say!
“I think it’s important, you have an actress like this, that you don’t box them in. And, I think when you’re making a movie, you want a tremendous amount of intention. Because otherwise, it’ll be boring If you don’t kind of try to invent and reinvent and come to the day with a very strict plan,” Verbinski explained. “I think you can end up with something sort of ordinary, but you also don’t want to have so much intention that you can’t liberate yourself from it. When you have such a great cast and you want, it’s almost that intention to discover…”
The director argued that putting all of that talent on-screen together sort of felt like “colliding particles together and seeing what happens.” Sometimes that chaos can be counterproductive, but that’s not the case here!
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s cast talks about letting loose for the film
So many different personalities worked on this film. For Beetz especially, getting to inhabit the role of Janet meant pushing the boat out on a character very different from who she is. Talking to us, she explained that the distance between action, comedy, and drama isn’t quite as wide as we may expect. For the actress Comm choosing these roles means finding a script and characters that speak to something deep inside of you. It just so happens that Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is darkly funny and resonant in other ways.
“I mean, I love that s*** because it’s funny. I feel like I am getting action stuff or I’ve been in action things, but personally, I’m not a fighter. I’m not very athletic. I’m not, or I don’t consider myself to be like that, and so I’ve loved the slapstick stuff. I think that’s naturally what my body is doing anyway. I’m not a precision kind of person, so I loved, I dunno, I think with Janet especially, she was like, ‘I had a lot of fun with that.’”
Hysterically, everyone’s distinct running became a gag on-set. Beetz shared, “No. It was actually funny though. We were doing a lot of running in this movie and every single person had a very specific run and we were all copying each other’s runs. We all developed our own thing.” That individuality might be a huge reason you like Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
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