The Girl in the Pool Interview: Stars Freddie Prinze Jr. & Monica Potter By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to The Girl in the Pool stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter about the dark thriller.
The duo discussed reuniting after Head Over Heels, working with director Dakota Gorman, and more. Quiver Distribution will release in theaters and on digital on July 26. “On his birthday, Tom’s life collapses when his mistress is found dead in his pool.
Terrified of the consequences, and desperate to protect his family, he conceals the truth, triggering a chaotic night that threatens to unravel his perfect life,” reads the synopsis. : Look, it’s one of the things in her contract. She won’t work with me unless there’s a dead human being or perceived dead human being.
It’s a difficult [stipulation], that’s why it took 23 years to find another movie for us to do together. : You know what? You’re right. has clearly seen better days.
What did you like most about getting to show a very different dynamic opposite somebody that you have worked with before? it felt the same, though, in a weird way. It felt like a level of trust and honesty with him, that it was like just getting back on the bike, you know, and walking in and not being worried or afraid or in my head, um, which I never am usually anyway, but, um, I just wanted to do right by him. Like I wanted to be there and do whatever he needed.
And because the, he carried the, the, the load for sure. handled that core mystery and the situation that your character finds himself in? : That’s all Dakota, the director, and our wonderful editor, who really kind of helped maintain that tension through those flashbacks and make the Hannah character feel much, much bigger than it actually was in the script. Those flashbacks weren’t scripted that way.
That was all sort of her eye, her vision, and how she was wanting to break these scenes up and place those things in there. So that tension is solely because of the two of them. They were the ones that implemented all of that.
I got to see a screening of it, and it’s such a nice surprise when you’re seeing things that aren’t from the script. She had kind of told me they played with it, so I wanted to see what they’d done, and I just loved it. So that’s all credit to her.
r: Fred said this earlier, she trusted us implicitly. We were able to do what we felt. We stood by the writing, obviously.
Freddie and Dakota actually wrote a lot of this, I thought. : We did a pass. Yeah, we did a little pass.
: Which made it, I think, really good. Not that it wasn’t before. I’ve been really lucky working with certain directors.
She’s phenomenal. I think she thinks differently, but she also feels differently. I think that informs her thinking too, on how to do something or not, and trusting.
I loved working with her. She would walk up to me, and before she would say anything, I would just look at her, and she’d go, “Okay, yep. Mm-hmm.
Yep. Yeah.” We wouldn’t even talk, and then she go, “Yep, got it.
You got it. Yep.” That’s how we communicated.
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An experienced entertainment journalist, his work can be seen at Sherdog, Fanbyte, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more. When not watching the latest movies, Treese enjoys mixed martial arts and playing with his Shiba Inu, Kota. Share article.
