Ti West Filmed Mia Goth’s Big ‘Pearl’ Monologue Like a Stunt: ‘She Just Nailed It’
thewrap.comis gushing.Can you talk about the timetable of shooting “X” alongside “Pearl?”Well, “X” was written and was sort of green-lit and we were going off to New Zealand to make it, and it was during the peak of the pandemic and New Zealand was a safe place to make a movie.
And we had spent a lot of time and effort to set up an environment down there with a crew and to get visas and to get everyone in through quarantine and to build an infrastructure a) to make a movie and b) this specific movie that was “X,” meaning building a barn and turning New Zealand into America.
And it was very uncertain if we would make that movie, I suppose, because it was a strange time and it was even more uncertain that we would maybe even make a movie ever again after that.
It occurred to me that we’re putting all this effort to go to a place and to be one of the fortunate people that could actually do this when nobody else could do it – what if we just used this stuff and made two movies instead of tearing it down and going home?
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