The actors, and the director of their horror romance, Mimi Cave, talk about the terrors of dating and the fallacy of romcoms.
It’s grisly enough to put most people off romance for life – especially the ones who vomit – but not its cast, Stan says, with a big cheesy grin: “We both want love!” “The victim is often a woman. But this film definitely is speaking more to the women’s experience.” Indeed, the issue of women’s safety becomes a pertinent topic in the film. Then she meets Steve (Stan) the old-fashioned way – in the flesh – in the fruit and veg aisle of a supermarket. “A lot of times we get that from other movies,” he says. For her part, Cave says she has endured “strange experiences” with online dating – usually with people pretending to be something they’re not. “I’m not on them but I have a lot of friends who are. And that’s a little scary to me.” “I had a producer from another film approach me and tell me that they had vomited in the middle of the movie. Edgar-Jones plays Noa, a twenty-something who is looking for love, but reduced to finding it in the horrifying world of dating apps. At first, she’s with her latest hook-up, Chad, who seems nice enough online but when they date, he turns out to another major-league disappointment, from insisting that they split the bill to marking down the way she dresses – “The women in our parents’ generation just cared more about how they looked,” he says.
A wickedly smart screenplay and electrifying performances from Edgar-Jones and Stan.
Noa is drugged by her new beau, wakes to find she is being held captive and is further distressed when she learns of Steve’s real motivations. Noa (Edgar-Jones) has had just about enough of matching with all the wrong men on her dating apps. Produced by American screenwriter, director and comedian Adam McKay (The Big Short, Don’t Look Up), Fresh features exquisite turns from Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones and Marvel star Sebastian Stan (recently in Pam & Tommy), in this story of a young woman who discovers her new boyfriend has a rather alarming secret.
Sebastian Stan and Daisey Edgar-Jones share some fun stories about the making of Fresh and how what is depicted in the film could really be happening.
STAN: Yeah. That was in the script and it was something that kind of intrigued me about the character because I saw that as an opportunity in a way for us to sort of see something different than what we've been seeing about him to that point in the movie. I mean, and that was one of the things that I was sort of dead set on is I wanted to go back and kind of look at every serial killer in the last three decades. I was like, "Okay." The eye, yeah. It's terrifying because like you realize how many of these people, how many of these serial killers hunted women for the last three, four decades, all going back to the sixties. EDGAR-JONES: I love it when films do that because you find yourself laughing or you find yourself enjoying something and then it's almost like you feel guilty about it because you realize what you are watching. And just him and these private moments kind of dancing by himself were so, they were funny, but they were weird and also kind of revealing about who he was or he might have been in a way. I remember we had both been so worried about kind of keeping the movie and the characters as grounded as possible, it's like, how could we get to that moment? STAN: The one with, because that was all kind of improvised and it was sort of us looking at each other being like, what's your move? Something that also is really cool about the film is you have these really upbeat 80s songs playing against really, really dark stuff. EDGAR-JONES: And that was nice because it was a bit more choreographed. I've just sort of been saying, I guess it's sort of a girl meets boy thriller is kind of one way of going about it. And then I'm kind of like, okay, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Mimi Cave opens up about her first feature-length film, and explains why she finds it confusing when people call Fresh 'gruesome'. Comments. Fresh.
In terms of the dancing with the two of them, it's definitely a bookending of sorts of their romance, where the second allows you to reconnect with them in the end the way that you did in the beginning. Each of them goes to pretty extreme places within the movie, and so I needed actors that were going to really go for it. So I felt like the only way it was going to work is if I could nail the tone and that was going to be a challenge, which was also why I was interested in it. Did you expect people to talk about that, and why was that the perfect place for them? We were rewriting a lot and we were revising a lot, and pulling out a lot of stuff. We play the sounds of the eating up so high that it's sometimes the only thing that's happening in the scene, and that can get lost when you're watching it on TV just because certain levels aren't able to be picked up. and I think what they realize is that the food is the goriest part – and I did that intentionally. You have to show a tiny bit in order to really commit to commit to the concept. Cave: I've had a few people say that in interviews, and I've sort of replied, "Well, what parts do you think were gruesome?" But I felt like there was just something there that really grabbed on to me and made me feel like, 'If this was done in the way that I want to do it, it could be really interesting'. So, I came onto it in that way and got really lucky, and worked with people and producers who allowed me to kind of take charge and do what I felt was necessary for the film. I feel like there's enough violence towards women in the world that I don't need to continue to show those images. I read it and had a big reaction to it, in terms of like, not being sure if I wanted to put myself up for it or not.
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A lot of documentaries, you know, on Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer and kind of every single serial killer in the last three decades, I think I looked up." "She had interviewed a lot of these people, and I sent her the script," he explained. "I remember we were shooting in Canada in January/February, really cold weather. And then we were getting together on the weekends. we were working five days a week. Why and ultimately what was he looking for?' Just all those things.
Fresh is now out on Disney+ in the UK and director Mimi Cave has talked us through the big moments of the movie's ending.
"Her delivery was great on that and that was a really hard scene to nail, just because you're trying to wrap up the film and there's a lot of shit going on. People who do horrible things, and have a lot of wealth and ability to move in the world in a way that they don't get caught. "Mollie says, 'He's probably married' and that line wasn't in the script. "When they start fighting in the kitchen, I took out all the music in the first half of that scene. We were constantly trying to get the right balance of that." It's a finale where you're never quite sure if Fresh is going to go down the cathartic route of having the good guys win or end on a bleaker twist. We went through a lot of food auditions and iterations of different dishes to make it happen." After not hearing from her, Mollie investigates and goes to Steve's actual home where she realises he's a) married and b) actually called Brendan. She pretends that she wants to sleep with Steve, but bites into his crown jewels instead. We get flashes of who they are and see them tucking into their messed-up dishes (especially in one striking credits scene), yet their identities and motives are left unexplored. Aware that Steve does still fancy her, she decides to seduce him instead and make him think she's into the cannibalism. He's not doing it totally for his own consumption, as he also sells it to wealthy clients who want to eat it too.
The film begins like your average romance drama. Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Noa, a young woman who is fed up with dating apps and has just had a ...
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Mimi Cave opens up about her first feature-length film, and explains why she finds it confusing when people call Fresh 'gruesome'. Comments. Fresh.
In terms of the dancing with the two of them, it's definitely a bookending of sorts of their romance, where the second allows you to reconnect with them in the end the way that you did in the beginning. Each of them goes to pretty extreme places within the movie, and so I needed actors that were going to really go for it. So I felt like the only way it was going to work is if I could nail the tone and that was going to be a challenge, which was also why I was interested in it. Did you expect people to talk about that, and why was that the perfect place for them? We were rewriting a lot and we were revising a lot, and pulling out a lot of stuff. We play the sounds of the eating up so high that it's sometimes the only thing that's happening in the scene, and that can get lost when you're watching it on TV just because certain levels aren't able to be picked up. and I think what they realize is that the food is the goriest part – and I did that intentionally. You have to show a tiny bit in order to really commit to commit to the concept. Cave: I've had a few people say that in interviews, and I've sort of replied, "Well, what parts do you think were gruesome?" But I felt like there was just something there that really grabbed on to me and made me feel like, 'If this was done in the way that I want to do it, it could be really interesting'. So, I came onto it in that way and got really lucky, and worked with people and producers who allowed me to kind of take charge and do what I felt was necessary for the film. I feel like there's enough violence towards women in the world that I don't need to continue to show those images. I read it and had a big reaction to it, in terms of like, not being sure if I wanted to put myself up for it or not.