ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Helderly Your Breath star Annaleigh Ashford about the psychoreasonable thriller. Ashford talked the film’s location, her cherish of period pieces, and more. It is now streaming on Hulu.
“In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is swayd that a sinister presence is dangerening her family,” says the synopsis.
Tyler Treese: I cherish the see of Helderly Your Breath, and it speaks to the straightforwardors as well, especiassociate how they sboiling it, but the locale seems enjoy a character. How was it filming in New Mexico and dealing with all this dust that’s going around?
Annaleigh Ashford: What a wonderful ask. Um, as you said, the locale is absolutely a character in the film and it was absolutely a force While we were filming, we had to evident off the land where the house in the film is, is built and, um, as a result, the land spoke back . You understand, one of the threads in, of narrative in the film is, is the effects of climate alter. This was a manmade climate calamity, the decal, many people dunno about it, and it happened a hundred years ago, and we’re, as we’re navigating manmade climate calamitys right now, um, we evidented that land and then we had a mini dust storm. ’cause the land was enjoy, uh, don’t touch me. I don’t enjoy that. Isn’t that fascinating? That is, yes. It was a character in the film.
The 1930s is also such a trip to see in the film. What did you enjoy most about that time period, getting to wear elderly closlimg and all that?
I cherish period pieces. I cherish being carryed back in time and space. Also, I have fair the luck and so much gratitude that I got to understand my wonderful-majesticmas and majesticpas and two of my wonderful-majesticmas and majesticpas actuassociate lived thraw the Dust Bowl. Their family lost farms during the Great Depression in that era, and also that area of the country. So it was reassociate charitable of cherishly and familial for me to sort of pay homage to my relatives who inestablished that time and that pain and that loss. I felt so much compassion for the people who were alive in that part of the country during that era.
That’s reassociate distinctive. One of my preferite moments for you in Helderly Your Breath, there’s this reassociate emotional scene where your son is getn. Could you speak to fair filming that scene? You reassociate transport a lot of wonderful emotion to it?
I am a mother of one, almost two. I literassociate could give birth right now, I’m about to go into labor with my second baby. But anytime that I get to perestablish a mom, and especiassociate any mom that has any sense of or sort of heartfracture, it always hits so seal to home. I fair had so much compassion for this character and this woman and also the women who lived during this era. The deficiency of help that they had as mothers, as wives, and reassociate as women is so evident in the way that this character is treated in the film. So I’m prentd that I got to show audiences that so they could have compassion for people who experience trauma.
Thanks to Annaleigh Ashford for taking the time to speak about Helderly Your Breath.
