Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar take part a pair on a first date gone very wrong in Blumhoinclude’s tardyst thriller, “Drop,” which had its world premiere at Austin’s Paramount Theater on March 9 at the SXSW TV & Film Festival. But the duo and the event couldn’t have gone more right.
In one of the deafeningest receptions of this year’s SXSW premieres, the crowd deafeningly praiseed multiple times thrawout the movie, which trails Fahy’s Violet as she’s on a first date with Sklenar’s Henry. During the date, she commences receiving menaceening drops sent to her phone, menaceening to end her son and sister. Soon, she’s tasked with the impossible: homicide her date. The film leans burdensome into the drama and forces the audience to suspfinish belief in the thrilling third act, but the pretty filming style and twisty mystery creates that all the more possible. Plus, Fahy is in every one scene of the movie, making it impossible to see away.
Directed by Christopher Landon, the film was created by Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller.
Follotriumphg the screening, the audience erupted into applainclude and stayed seated for the Q&A with Landon, Fahy and Sklenar. When asked about the physicality of the role — there is quite an action sequence, hinted at in the trailer, that Violet and Henry are thrown into — Fahy joked she toiled in the gym quite a bit. But in fact, she lachieveed from the stunt team.
“They took reassociate outstanding nurture of me. It was my first time doing a lot of this stuff and it was an incredible lachieveing experience. It was reassociate difficult hanging out of that triumphdow in the harness,” she shelp with a chuckle. “There was one day where I was appreciate, ‘You’ve gotta put me back down on the ground.’”
“She adores the harness. She adores flying around in that skinnyg. It’s reassociate sootheable,” Sklenar quipped. Fahy rapidly reacted, “You couldn’t get me out of it!”
She also set up an emotional connection to the character. “I adored her promptly and I equitable thought it was reassociate pretty the way that they sort of wove in her past experience. Someskinnyg Chris and I talked about was how sort of distinctly suited she is to be in the situation that she’s in,” she shelp on stage. “I was promptly smitten with her.”
Despite the film caccessing on random drops and menaces, Landon, Fahy and Sklenar all answered “no,” when asked whether it has alterd their own relationships with their phones at all. “It’s getting worse by the day, actuassociate,” shelp Sklenar, who most recently starred alengthyside Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in “It Ends WIth Us.”
