The Secrets We Keep
The Secrets We Keep , out in theatre now before its on requirement release of October 16 , tells the fib of a woman in post - WWII America . Based on the playDeath and the Maiden , it follows Maja ( Noomi Rapace ) as she kidnaps and tortures her neighbour Thomas ( Thomas ) as vengeance for the crime she believes he committed .
Chris Messina and Amy Seimetz round out the astral cast , portraying better half who are more often than not left in the dark . The two actors spoke with Screen Rant about how they handle their theatrical role and how they viewed Yuval Adler ’s conduct mode .
This movie is killer vivid , from top to bottom . I was clenched to my bum the whole prison term , and it ’s interesting because it kind of plays out almost like a stage looseness as well . Can you talk to me about the character you play ?
Amy Seimetz : Sure , I play Rachel . She is the married woman of the man that Chris and Noomi kidnap , fiddle by Joel Kinnaman . She ’s mostly in the dark for most of the movie , and Noomi ’s character befriends her .
But you learn pretty quickly that , really , she desire to be maintain in the dark . She does n’t want to know the existent truth about her husband , and what he ’s done . And she knows that there ’s something there , but she ’s willing to keep that bottled up .
Chris , how about yourself ?
Chris Messina : I play Lewis , Noomi ’s husband in the picture . My type kind of acts as the audience , in endeavor to calculate out and understand what the Scheol ’s going on . Who ’s telling the truth ? Who ’s lie ? What is this secret , and why has it been keep from me for this long ?
I really want to mouth about that a little . Your character is in a vulnerable view because , out of the characters he interacts with the most , he ’s the one who ’s really in the dark about everything . Can you tattle to me about how you approached that characterization ?
Chris Messina : Yeah , I really loved playing him because I get shake off as - if you do something halfway seemly in Hollywood once , the mental imagery does n’t run that far . So , I was seen ab initio as a nice kind of guy wire , and I get cast a lot as that .
This is a prissy guy who loves his married woman and loves his family and he ’s a inflexible rock , but yet the fate are gaga and the stakes run high , so he ’s forced to make some monumental move and determination quick . It was fun to see a character that was so steady and so moral have to wonder all that , and be brought down kind of to his knees .
But the prep of that was really just in the script . We had rehearsals , and we dug through together and figured out the good way to step out the conniption as the stakes uprise .
Amy , I wanted to tattle to you about your director , Yuval Adler , because I really wish that he keep you guessing passably much all the way into the very end . What method did your theater director apply to heighten the sense of realism during dash ?
Amy Seimetz : As a director , I attempt to ignore what he ’s doing technically . Because otherwise my brain will start going , " Are you indisputable about that angle ? " But as an player , he really - the scenes that I have with Noomi , we had dry run before , but also on solidifying he wo n’t check until it feels real emotionally . I trust a film producer like that , where he ’s like , " I do n’t think we got it . "
specially because the scenes are so subtle and so quiet that getting that precision of a bend of a phrase , he admit time and space for us to really hit it . But my scene partner Noomi is incredible . Even though our prospect are very unruffled , she has just the motion picture of like an eye move or just a corner of her oral fissure twitching . She ’s incredibly precise . And to play off of that is great . That ’s what Chris and I sort of populate to do as worker .
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