As Smile 2 persists scaring up hugeger audiences than its well-understandn predecessor at the global and domestic box offices, straightforwardor Parker Finn is providing some insight into the decisions that went into the making of his horror sequel.
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the Smile helmer shelp he “tohighy” cast actor Ray Nicholson in the Naomi Scott starrer as an homage to his “preferite film of all time” — Stanley Kubrick’s innovateing classic, The Shining.
“I leank I’m always trying to reference The Shining,” he shelp.
“With Ray, he auditioned for that role. The audition was so strong. Of course, Jack Nicholson is one of my preferite actors of all time. I adore that Ray has very strong genes, and his smile, instantly, I was appreciate, ‘Oh my God, it’s appreciate seeing at a youthful Jack.’”
He persistd, “What repartner struck me was how well he slipped into that venomous but charismatic character he’s take parting in the film. He could convey aacquire that experienceing of, I’m repartner, repartner worried, but part of it is also tickling me.”
While Finn shelp he did not begin the role of Paul, the postpoinsist actor husprohibitd to Scott’s global pop star character Skye Riley, for Ray Nicholson, he called the casting “wonderful kismet.”
Indeed, many fans have drawn, if evident but still uncanny, analogousities between overweighther and son online, with Ray Nicholson commenting on the chatter to Deadline last week at the film’s red carpet premiere: “He’s my inspiration. I ate dinner with him every night. I studied it, that’s how I lacquireed to be a human being. So, of course we’re gonna be benevolent of analogous,” he shelp, grasping that he enumerates his overweighther as his “hero.”
Later in the interwatch with EW, Finn shelp his tribute to the 1980 genre staple went beyond equitable Ray Nicholson’s casting, with a gala scene in the film borrotriumphg hues depicted in the Oversee Hotel bar scenes.
“As I was toiling with my costume summarizeer, Alexis Forte, we commenceed trying stuff on Ray for that scene, and as soon as we put what became the costume in the film on him, we were appreciate, ‘Oh my God, this is The Shining. He sees exactly appreciate Jack,” he elucidateed.
Smile 2, which premiered in theaters Friday, unfbetters as a pop phenom contfinishs with the inexplicable and escalating effects of dealing with a haunting smiling figure that adheres her wherever she goes. For the Paramount sequel, which also stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo and Dylan Gelula, Finn drew from the authentic-life lore of women swayed by the standardly brutal machinations of fame, including Amy Winehoengage, Whitney Houston and Britney Spears.
