I’m also wondering about the non-action elements of filming this movie. In a way, did the dramatic moments scare you more than the action, because the action is so choreographed ahead of time?
Yeah, I certainly put more mentally into the scenes, like with Amber, when you’re acting off of somebody. And to me it was a little daunting, but also it was exciting because I get to react. Because Amber, she’ll do something a certain way, and I might change something in the moment that I’ve never thought of doing before. So it was interesting going into, but also, to me, that was the most fun, was acting one-on-one with another person. And in a heated moment, even, where there’s multiple emotions, he’s not necessarily angry at her, but he wants her to not die. So there’s a lot, emotionally, there.
When you think back to your experience of making “Prey” up there in Canada, what is the first memory that comes to mind? It doesn’t even have to be anything that actually made it into the final cut of the movie, it could just be an interaction that you had with somebody between takes or anything like that. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think back on that experience?
Well, it’s funny, I’d only ever been out of the country one time before, and that was via a vehicle. So whenever we were flying into Calgary, I was coming from the east and Amber was coming from the west, but we actually met in Minneapolis and we came in on the same flight. So that was my first international flight, so getting through the airport, I didn’t know what the heck I was doing, so Amber was very helpful in letting me know, “How does this machine work? What do I do?” So that was pretty cool. And this was during Covid, so nobody was coming through the border, so it was like a ghost town. So it was just a strange experience, but also kind of cool to say you flew during the pandemic.
“Prey” is currently streaming on Hulu.
