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Ashley Greene proud of his new horror movie, It feeds – But shooting his first film after giving birth was not always easy.
“This (movie) was difficult for me because it was my first movie job having my little girl, and I think we were six months in, and so I had been on a set for the longest I had ever been on a set,” I was told, ”Greene, 38, Weekly US. “I was breastfeeding, so I was pumping on a set and your hormones go everywhere. And then I, like, had to go home to this little angel and try to separate these two things. It was really challenging for me.”
In the supernatural thriller, Greene portrays Cynthia, the mother of Clairvoyant who is on a mission with her daughter, Jordan (Ellie o’brien), to save a girl named Riley (Shayelin Martin) of demonic entity. By having to balance new maternity – Greene brought to girl Kingsley, which he shares with a husband Paul KhouryIn September 2022 – with such a heavy role admitting it was “hard” for Greene, he used the character’s strengths to help him.
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find things you can use to the advantage of you too against letting it work against you,” explained Greene. “And so I said, ‘This is very difficult for me, but I’m going to find a way through it and I’m going to use this, these moments when I’m on a set.’ It’s one of the most proud of coming out of this project.
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find things you can use to the advantage of you too against letting it work against you,” explained Greene. “And so I said, ‘This is very difficult for me, but I’m going to find a way through it and I’m going to use this, these moments when I’m on a set.’ It’s one of the most proud of coming out of this project.
One of the general themes of the film focuses on the fight against someone’s deepest trauma, as a director and writer Chad Archibald Created the story after both parents have been diagnosed with cancer. Greene, who has been open about her battle with anxiety and panic attacks over the years, said she immediately understood the layered representation and believed she could do something “powerful” with her performance.
“When you’re ready, I think you have to look inside yourself and you have to face your demons and you have to be able to allow yourself to have the strength to overcome things that have happened to you, not because of you,” he explained. “I loved that throughout the film.”
In a juxtaposition to the empathy cynthia was Costar Greene Shawn Ashmore Like Randall, the Riley’s father in his possession who has a more extreme (and violent) approach to rescuing his daughter. Like Greene, Ashmore used his own experience as a parent to place human spin and empathy on the motives of his character. (Ashmore and his wife Dana Renee Welcome their son, Oliver, in 2017.)
“I never looked at Randall as a villain. If we were to watch this film through Randall’s perspective, he would be the hero,” explained Ashmore, 45, Us. “He makes horrific choices, but I understood the bad choices he was making, because he was in an impossible position. He has just watched his wife wither away from a circumstance that he cannot understand as he began to comprehend that he is now in danger of losing his daughter. I looked at him as a loving father who does anything he can.”
Ashmore said he had to find out how to “reconcile” how his character could make the decisions he makes without being a “bad” person, and that’s where being a father himself became vital to his process.
“When I really started thinking about his circumstance, and if I were in that circumstance, what would I do? I would do anything to protect my son,” he explained. “And he doesn’t do the right thing, but he does the only thing he knows how to do it in this impossible situation it is put into.”
Ashmore hopes when people see the movie they are pressing into the “great thrill ride” It feeds Provides while also recognizing the complexity – and intelligence – the characters on screen.
“In genre movies, it’s so frustrated when you can (you can) say that the characters make the decision to promote the story or to put a character in a bad or dangerous situation. And I never felt, so when I read (this script),” he explained. “And then when I watched it feed (and then) characters make bad decisions…. I really understood why.”
He added, “I think that is specific in horror films, where, if a character makes the decision just to promote the plot or put themselves at risk, that is a poor writing option rather than, ‘We understand who this character is and the choice they make is true to who they are.’ And I think this film is full of decisions and actions like that.
Greene, for her part, wants It feeds To provide enough supernatural fun while also holding a mirror for viewers.
“What I loved for Cynthia and Jordan is once we see Cynthia tackling past trauma and things that happened to her – (but) when you realize that she has to overcome those things to help her daughter, she does not make any questions asked and can do it for someone else,” she said to someone else, “she said Us. “And I think that’s what we are as a society, right? When you improve yourself, you have the ability to improve others too.”
It feeds Premieres in theaters and on demand on Friday, April 18.
