An Elderly Woman Showed Up at Walton Goggins and Nadia Conners’ Home. Her Visit Inspired Their New Film, ‘The Uninvited’
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor One night, not so very long ago, Walton Goggins and Nadia Conners were getting ready to host a cocktail party for about 150 people when an elderly woman showed up outside their Los Angeles home.
She was confused and disoriented, asking Conners to help open the garage door because her clicker wasn’t working. “She thought she was home,” remembers Conners. “I looked through her phonebook, trying to find someone who knew her and who could help, but most of the people in it were dead.
She had outlived her circle of friends.” Later, after the police had arrived to help the woman, Conners returned to the party and shared what had happened with her guests. “I was telling this story and trying to explain to people why it had impacted me so deeply.
The reaction was sort of like, ‘Great, you got her back home.'” “People thought it was a cute anecdote as opposed to a sign of what’s coming for all of us,” says Goggins. “You can’t be impervious to mortality.” That incident would ultimately inspire “The Uninvited,” a new film that Conners wrote and directed, which just premiered at SXSW.
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