ComingSoon spoke with Dead Mail directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy as well as stars Sterling Macer Jr. and John Fleck about the thriller.
“In Dead Mail, On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him,” reads the movie’s synopsis. “The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled dead letter investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender.
Sterling, this is such a great role for you, and you’re put in some vulnerable positions. What was the most interesting detail of being a kidnapping victim and showing the desperate side of the character here?I think the most interesting aspect to me … is I didn’t expect the scenario that I’m put in to have as much of an emotional effect — a psychological effect on me and affect how I actually feel.
Kyle, I wanted to ask about working with Tomas Boykin because he’s great as Jasper in the film, and he’s like the third pillar of the narrative. What stood out about working with him?Tomas is an amazing actor, so great to work with. He really brought so much to Jasper and kind of an originality that we couldn’t have really thought of, Joe and I ourselves.
John, what stood out to both of you as scene partners while working so closely together on these scenes? These are very intense scenarios and I assume that requires a lot of trust with your fellow actor when you’re chaining them up to a toilet and having these intense moments.I think Sterling talked about this a couple days ago, but we shoot the scene and it’s very intense.
I think, too, maybe it’s something about the indie filmmaking process too, but It’s just so quick and you almost don’t have enough time to overthink things. So if someone has an instinct to go one direction, it almost like, “Hey, if I don’t feel strongly about it and they do, let’s just move. Go that way and keep the train moving.
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