You are under heavy prosthetic makeup in the film. Did you find it constrictive are was it freeing as an actress?
TR: Not in the least. I found it unsettling to pass by certain reflective surfaces and see someone else’s face. In theatre I have done a lot of mask work and I love creating strange characters in my burlesque, so this was kind of a wet dream for me to play something so extreme. I think at this point it may be more of a challenge to do a film with my own face since there would be so much more to be aware of. On a strangely narcissistic note, while I know everyone will adore Beatrice, it’s a little daunting to wonder if when faced with my own features if I can still win people over in my next project... (full interview)
I feel you are the moral center of the film, representing the road that leads to ruin. What can you tell me about Ruby Realgirl’s motivation for her decision?
PL: I think Ruby feels her decisions are a natural creative extension of herself. Do I think there’s a deeper reason she wants to desexualize herself? Some sort of past trauma? Yes. Maybe it’s her own convoluted way of taking her power back, like Mary does in the film. (full interview)
On to American Mary – how did you find each other to make this film? Katharine, what drew you to it?
KI: They…
JS: I wrote it for her! That’s a big rule as a director: never write for an actor because you don’t know if you’ll end up being disappointed… Maybe they’re not available, or when you meet them maybe they’re not the people that you were hoping they were… but Katie was WAY worse than what we’d imagined.
KI: Huge letdown!
JS: No, she’s like the Fassbender to our Steve McQueen. Katie’s our special one.
SS: We were such big fans from Ginger and we watched everything and when you see the movie this is going to sound cruel, but this is something I’ve always wanted to see Katie do. I was so lucky that not only was she what I hoped she would be from watching all her movies, but she was even better. She only had three takes to do anything – we had 15 days, a lesser actress would have fucked this movie up so bad but she was just brilliant in it! I can’t say enough good things about her.
KI: I like those answers. (full interview)
Sylvia Soska: At the time we were trying to sell our first film, Dead Hooker in a Trunk and nothing was happening, we were incredibly broke from that experience, we were going down to LA being very green and had no idea really what we were doing and we were meeting some real industry monsters.
Jen Soska: That hasn’t changed much.
Sylvia Soska: No not too much.
Then we had ailing family members who were in the hospital all the time and I was talking to a friend and he was like ‘You should focus on your next project, what other scripts do you have?’ and I had nothing!
So I thought ‘Nope, I’m going to lie’ and I made up a sentence for every movie that I thought I could write in two weeks.
Jen Soska: It’s really a life lesson, when in doubt, lie. (full interview)
SS: They saw how much of a fan-girl I was and I carry a modification hook in my purse…
(Sylvia produces a hook from her bag)
SS: When my balls drop – not Superman style, because I’m too much of a pussy! – I want to do the shoulder suspension, not only because I want to know what that transcendence is like, but if I did it then a lot of people will be like “Well, if that little chick can do it…”
JS: Street cred!
SS: Stop pretending it’s a big freakish thing, it’s kind of cool.
KI: I don’t know. I’d get 3D implants. I don’t know enough about it to know where you could do it though. I would want some shoulder/arm ones.
SS: You could do that. (full interview)
FLASH BANG's interview with Katie & the Twins
Brutal As Hell: (trying and failing to casually get notes out) I’ve got notes.
(Laughter)
Jen Soska: “Ladies, why are you such cunting fucks?”
BAH: Wha- when did you see this sheet?
(More laughter. Go me.)
BAH: Hello Katharine Isabelle, hello… (attempts to guess – Sylvia whispers her name) Sylvia Soska! Okay, right, I wouldn’t have known that at all, obviously – I mean, I would have known. Ahem.
(More laughs. I’m on a roll.)
BAH: And Jen Soska. Hello.
JS: Hello Ben.
BAH: So first of all, how is life on the road treating you?
Sylvia Soska: We’re like a band. It’s a good thing we like each other, because we could have killed each other by now.
JS: We’re pretty much Led Zeppelin right now.
Katharine Isabelle: Yeah, we’re pretty much Led Zeppelin. (full interview)
FLICKS AND THE CITY interview Katie & the Twins
Katharine, do you feel you play a feminist heroine in the film?
Katharine: I absolutely do. I’ve done a few horror movies and it’s absolutely refreshing. The character of Mary on paper has no redeemable qualities. She’s not that pleasant, she’s not that kind, she has no friends, she has no family. She’s very narcissistic and self-absorbed, and that was refreshing in itself. I tried my best to make the character likeable without sweetening anything, without dumping any radical rigid feminist plotlines and themes! (laughs) I think it was the most true-to-life character that I’ve ever had the opportunity to portray because all the time in film women are, like Sylvia said earlier, those sort of easy bake kind of cookie images, like the slut, the tease, the good girl next door. And to have a character that was so multi-dimensional, that didn’t have any particular redeeming qualities, but was still likeable, was still strong, was still interesting and stood up for herself and gave not one fuck about anyone else, or what anyone else thought, or what anyone else expected of her, is something that I think we need to see more of in film and in society in general. (full interview)
Sylvie is more categorical: “We’re undatable, and after this movie, we’re even more undatable.” When American Mary showed at the market in Cannes, she recalls, “a gentleman started hitting on me. He said, ‘What are you doing here?’ I said, ‘I’m here for the movie, which I made with my sister.’ He said, ‘I hope it’s good.’ The movie plays, he looks at me, grabs his coat and speed-walks out. There you go.” (full interview)
SayWhatNews: In the horror film, ‘American Mary’ you played Billy Barker - a weathered and detached entrepreneur in the adult entertainment business. How did you prepare for this role?
Antonio: I showed up. Haha…. no seriously, Billy Barker was an idea I had of someone who is trying to hold on.. disgruntled, unsatisfied and a soft souled hard-ass. We all have many personalities that we don’t always tap into. I had to dig up some stuff that I didn’t know was available deep down but in the end Billy’s attributes are a part of who I am in some way. But all that gets locked in some character storage locker of your soul and you move on. (full interview)
- Sylv
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