![]() It was like being in a tent together, and the world is outside and the world doesn’t matter. And that made everything a bit more enjoyable. I mean, I knew the scenes, I just didn’t know the order. He would say, ‘don’t look at the schedule,’ and I’d just turn up in the morning. I didn’t even know what we were shooting the next day. I wanted to just experience this first time with him. Because Ueno was a non-actor, and that’s wonderful. I was allowed to be in a non-actor as well. It was wonderful because, in a way, Brad didn’t put me on the spot. Juri: I felt like I was observing loads of his world and his family and his four walls. ![]() Carla, what was it like building chemistry with Ueno? It sounds like the movie was part-documentary. And what’s nice about that as a structure is that whatever he would do naturally was something we could incorporate in the film. Let me talk to the guys,’ and they were fine with it. Normally, he wouldn’t sign up for a movie and then have to go to a concert or go record an album in the middle of what he had agreed upon.īut then that’s a gift, you know, because I was like, ‘Can we film you recording an album?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, sure. When we started shooting, Ueno was like, ‘Okay, well, I have to record this album, and then I’ve got a concert on this day.’ And I was like, ‘I need you for the whole time.’ An actor wouldn’t do that. ![]() The schedule allowed us to go with the flow of what was happening and also change the schedule. And that allowed us to have time and space to do what we needed to do. And then we started pulling stuff out so that we could have that time. So, we would be like okay, well, we’re just gonna use the gaffer half the time. We got the budget for the film, and then I said I wanted 30 days, but we didn’t have enough money to shoot 30 days. The one thing that I had wanted with this film, different than our other films, was I wanted more time and more days to shoot. Nobody wants to have to start the next day, and you haven’t slept enough. Gray: Traditionally, most people try to shoot something in 12 hours. Pic credit: Sundance Film Festival/Mutressa Movies That carries through the movie and through our friendship. Or he acted the experience of loss for me, very naturally, and that got my heart and my brain right in his. Juri: Well, we talked, and Brad told me about his experience of loss, basically. I met him in a coffee shop in Los Angeles, and I wasn’t sure about the script.īradley Rust Gray: You said you didn’t like it. Monsters and Critics: Carla, what was your favorite part about playing Chloe? Did you face any challenges tapping into this character?Ĭarla Juri: It started with Brad and everything. Monsters and Critics had the opportunity to chat with Gray and Blood’s leading actor Carla Juri about their experiences on set and how the movie came together. He also produced the feature film Lovesong, created by his partner So Yong Kim, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. One of his older projects, the short movie hITCH, won an award at the festival back in 2010. He is well-established in the Sundance sphere and has celebrated many achievements with the institute. This isn’t Gray’s first dance with the Sundance Film Festival. And then we found Carla, and I think it was like the film had this new life now.” He continued, “That was a theme that we shared. The thing that we had in common was that somebody in her life had passed away, and my parents passed away when I was a kid.” He told us, “Originally, I started working on the script for this story with another actress that I was friends with. Blood is slow-paced and shows the duo’s lives through a series of snippets, adopting a whimsical “slice-of-life” format.īradley Rust Gray, writer and director of Blood, was first driven to work on this film by his personal experience with loss. The romantic drama follows a young widow Chloe (Carla Juri) as she travels to Japan and ends up rekindling her relationship with a childhood friend Toshi (Takashi Ueno). Premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Blood (stylized as ‘”blood”) tells a moving story about grief and love- the latter is shown from many different angles: familial, romantic, friendship, and with one’s self.
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