Actress Lily Sullivan broke out in the 2012 film “Mental,” costarring Toni Colette, Liev Schreiber, and Anthony LaPaglia, which she booked off an open casting call within two weeks of her drama school program.
, “Monolith” and “Evil Dead Rise.” In the first she is the sole actor onscreen, and in the second, which is the fifth film in the “Evil Dead” franchise and which is out on April 21, she plays the lead role.
“I really didn’t get put through the ringer until I arrived on set, and then I was tortured and traumatized,” she says of “Evil Dead.” “Spending three months in an energy space where you are in fight or flight and your character’s fighting for survival…there’s no cute coffee break in the morning when the character wakes up. It’s this relentless ‘Evil Dead’ film.
“And when I got back home, it was always magnesium, lavender bath oil, just bath, bath, bath. And exercise to just be able to maintain the three-month shoot, and tell the body that it’s not about to die. It’s not, actually, about to die.”“It was almost like a palette cleanse of ‘Evil Dead.’ We just wanted to clean the slate. It was dialogue heavy, a one-woman show, a total challenge of a lifetime. We shot the movie in 15 days, so it was intense.”“Auditioning, meeting with directors.
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