The Mill director Sean King O'Grady chats with Screen Rant about collaborating with Lil Rel Howery and the mechanics behind the grist mill.
Summary Currently available to stream on Hulu, The Mill opens on a disoriented businessman who wakes up in an outdoor prison. Joe is greeted by a daunting computer system, courtesy of his employer, that informs him of a change in his job description. Unsure of how he arrived at the mysterious location, Joe finds himself forced to push the massive grist mill located in the middle of his prison cell in order to ensure the survival of himself and his family.
Sean King O'Grady: It was just an incredible script. It's funny—I was specifically looking for something that took place in one location, that was a dystopian science fiction thriller, and that had all of these elements. Josh Feldman, my producing partner, dropped this script in my lap that he had read years earlier, and Jeff's script was just crazy good.
Sean King O'Grady: I love working in these kinds of confined spaces as long as all the elements that you're working with are good. There's really no room for any weak links. First and foremost, you're really relying on your actors to be great. In this case, we have one actor on screen for the majority of the movie, and this movie really would have sunk if it weren't for how great Rel was.
The set has to be great when you're working in one space. The set, which we actually built, was 18 feet tall and 15,000 pounds of concrete. I asked Rel if he wanted to see the set before we started shooting. He took a minute, thought about it, and said, "No, I don't want to. Actually, I want to be blindfolded, and I want to wake up and see it for the first time the way that Joe wakes up and sees it for the first time.
Sean King O'Grady: The team that has built the sets for my last two films, and built this one as well, they don't come from a traditional art department background. Our production designer, Amy Williams does, but Colin, who does the art direction, and his team, build all sorts of real structures. When they build things, they really build them. It makes it all feel real. I think it feels real for the actors. I think it feels real for the crew who's in there.
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