Why Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell Teamed Up to’Downhill’
“We’re actually hoping they would encourage us to be here. We believed it was a good way for the movie to start,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus stated, reflecting on the reason why she had been excited for her most recent movie,”Downhill,” to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival — although the setting of this movie (a ski resort) and the assumption (a few is forced to reevaluate their connection after confronting a near-avalanche) could hit a bit too close to home to the cinephiles at Park City, Utah.
“We had been hoping to get a larger dump of snow so that there were several avalanche warnings and a few severe dangers simply to elevate the movie,” the movie’s co-director Nat Faxon joked, before Will Ferrell quipped,”I did hear the noises of avalanche cannons this morning, from my hotel room. It was reassuring.”
The team assembled Variety’s Sundance Studio, introduced by AT&T, remembering the strangest stories of this American adaptation of this 2014 Hindi movie”Force Majeure.”
“I was a huge fan, naturally, of’Force Majeure’ and Ruben Östlund, that had been the manager, was very excited, very enthused about the notion of an American variation,” Louis-Dreyfus clarified. “And there are basic elements of this story which I thought could be really interestingly told from an American perspective, since the movie is quintessentially Swedish at the best way. However, I thought it’d be interesting to kind of riff about what that movie is all about, and that’s what we do, actually.”
She continued:”The nature of the film is about a fact changing, a fact at which a lens is facing it. The lens is removed and the fact is rather different then actuality. And I believed that was a very fascinating notion.”
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Louis-Dreyfus functioned for five years to get the movie off the floor, making her first feature together with her”Enough Said” collaborator Anthony Bregman and Searchlight Pictures.
Louis-Dreyfus also helped build an on-camera outfit that included Zach Woods, Zoe Chao and Ferrell — that, to some surprise to many, not just never worked together before, but never fulfilled.
“It was fantastic and we could not think that if we got together… we actually had not met before,” Louis-Dreyfus said of working with Ferrell. “And when we did meet it was about this job to talk about the script and we instantly kind of were simpatico. We work really well together”
Of his motives for registering, Ferrell said,”It is an wonderful job… just such a meaty husband-and-wife narrative, that is so exceptional and you understand, constructed around this assumption, this external set of situation — what is likely to be only a pleasant run-of-the-mill excursion and [the avalanche] totally turns it upside down”
With the two comedians at precisely the exact same movie also introduced a special challenge.
“It was very important for us to be in a position to form straddle the play and humor in precisely the exact same time, in how life does and keep it accurate and got and honest,” Louis-Dreyfus clarified.
And when it came time to get the huge confrontation scene, the celebrities handled the struggle, filming single takes more than three times.
“It was really private. It had been really romantic. It was just like doing theatre, since we did it without quitting. We’d go through and proceed,” Louis-Dreyfus remembered. “It was quite tough, however, it was totally thrilling all at precisely the exact same moment. It was really enjoyable. It felt as though we were only working on all cylinders as celebrities.”
Ferrell added:”And all of a sudden you would find another small, you know, way to play with it, yet another reservoir to draw , you had no idea was there.”
