Ahead of the film’s Canadian release – and coming just off a Sundance Film Festival world premiere that left audiences both impressed and nauseous – Cronenberg talked with The Globe and Mail about vacations and ratings
Well, it was only slightly quicker because I actually wrote the script for this before we even shot, I didn’t have anything in development at all because I didn’t have a career, and had to start over from scratch. But I realized at a certain point that you have to have a bunch of projects going at the same time because so much stuff doesn’t go anywhere, or can take a decade to go anywhere.
I wouldn’t say that he’s a stand-in for me in general, but certainly there is a thread of self-mockery in that character.One of the things that stood out here, aside from the film’s more intense moments, are the cultural-appropriation gags that the resort staff put on: the Chinese restaurant, the Bollywood Indian dancing.
The film that premiered in Sundance was the unrated or NC-17 version, featuring full-frontal nudity during a scene between Skarsgard and Mia Goth, among other things. But the one I watched during my Toronto screening seemed to be different, the R-rated cut perhaps …
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