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Yeah, in my hometown of face huggers when you're like making
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out with like a bigger sweaty person and if 000,
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we're lying. I'm so sorry.
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Hi guys, my name is Liam and I'm Joel.
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And today we get to talk to the director of Alien Romulus
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FDI Alvarez. Be we're big,
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big fans. We're horror movie lovers.
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So they put us scoops here to talk to you because we
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we we can talk to talk.
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and I wanted to ask.
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So while you were preparing for Alien Romulus,
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was there any non alien movies that you were kind of watching
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in preparation for production?
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A good question, horror in general and suspense is,
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is what works best for Alien,
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right? So I have any specifics,
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I'm watching movies all the time.
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So, so it's probably,
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you know, anything that works for the movie,
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sometimes even movies that have,
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that are not even the genre are the ones that inspire you
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the most. A lot of times you might watch a science
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fiction film that no horror in it and end up being the
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perfect inspiration for it.
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Wonderful. I wanted to ask like in your opinion what Latin
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American country has the best horror movies and then also,
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like, do you have any favorites that we should watch?
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Uruguay has definitely a few really good horror movies.
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there's one movie that was called the,
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the, the La Casa Mua,
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which was kind of a classic in Uruguay that got remade into
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an American movie. That was really,
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really good suspenseful movie where,
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but just one long shot of horror,
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that was pretty good.
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I'm sure they'll do it.
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I be honest, I haven't seen all the Latin American horror
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in the last few years.
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You need to give me a recommendation.
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We have to check that I love,
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I love the suspense and like I wanted to ask you creating
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tension and suspense is one of my favorite parts about the alien
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movies. How did you go about that?
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And what kind of like was inspiring you and guiding your directions
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Well, there's a few things you gotta make sure you do
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Like one is make sure you create characters that,
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that you, that people can invest on and,
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and, and that you get to know and you can,
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the characters hopes and dreams,
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the harder it is to watch them die.
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So when they're, you know,
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they're running for that door and the creature is behind them.
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you want them to make it to the doors to be characters
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that you, that you care for,
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that you really don't want them to die.
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That that's a massive part of it.
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Then the other part is make sure to have antagonist monster like
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we do here that is super capable and it's very hard to
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survive an encounter with.
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So that really sets the rule for you that it's,
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if they come to close to it,
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And it's all about playing with your sense of hope versus fear
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What, what do you hope for and what you fear
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for. So speaking of,
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you know, characters and talent,
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you know, you feature a lot of young,
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talented and we know that you love all your actors equally.
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if they're put in this situation,
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who do you think actually make it to the third act as
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actors and not as characters?
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I'll tell you this is,
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this is true stories like they,
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I cast them and some of that I have met before some
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of them have I just,
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I knew their work and I saw them all together,
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you know, going to little rehearsals and going to stunt rehearsals
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and I saw the way they all move and behave and,
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and it was incredible how close they were to their characters.
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Like they, you know,
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the one that's the leader was the leader among the group.
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The one that was the funny one was the funny one in
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the group. So I would say that whoever,
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if anybody survives the movie would probably be the same person really
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We have to find out.
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I know that we just read something that LA make up 50%
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of box office sales for horror movies.
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Why do you think we show up for horror movies like that
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It's a good question.
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I don't know. I think in my case,
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I think it's, it's more the Christian,
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you know, upbringing,
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like just to go to Catholic school mix horror movies,
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particularly the ones that deal with the devil,
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like particularly terrifying. But it's just,
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I think it's just on our,
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you know, and the culture in general,
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just the idea of sin and punishment,
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right? A lot of horror is built around the idea.
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I mean, you see it in our trailer,
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even kids decide to break into a place and,
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and, and Rob and now good,
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There's a sin there and there will be a punishment for it
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So that that concept kind of comes,
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feels very religious in a way.
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And obviously, you know,
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Latinos tend to be more likely or not that you,
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you are more religious person.
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Well, thank you again for coming and thank you so much
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Very excited for the movie and it,
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it looks wonderful. Thank you so much.
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it's very true. I'm so excited for this the way that
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he murders people on camera.
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my goal as a filmmaker is to like murder over 500 people
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on camera. Fictionally,
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fiction, fiction, fiction.
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but Alien rhyming, this comes out August 16th.
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I'll be there. I'll see you in IMAX experience.
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Take your mom a hug with you.
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