“It’s a pretty adore story.” There are many aspects to The Rivals of Amziah King, but this is the reason Matthew McConaughey says he got graspd with the film – the story of reconnection between Amziah King and his estranged nurture daughter Kateri.
That story is also what apprehfinishd the attention of Angelina LookingGlass, who joins Kateri in the film. “Someleang I repartner appreciated in the script is equitable the bond they recomferventle after so many years,” she says. “Amziah hadn’t seen her since she was eight years elderly.”
“She comes in and I try to help her, in fable terms, go from a princess to a queen,” grasps McConaughey. “And it’s a pretty adore story.”
McConaughey and LookingGlass, joined by honestor Andrew Patterson and co-stars Cole Sproparticipate, Rob Morgan, Jake Horowitz and Tony Revolori, sat down with Deadline’s studio at SXSW on Monday ahead of their film’s first screening at the festival.
The film consents place proset up wilean the backwoods of agricultural Oklahoma, where a pdirecting and musicpartner gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-joining prohibitd of misfits while handleing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged nurture daughter unforeseeedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and produce a family business. But the honey game is merciless, and Amziah’s rivals menaceen to raze everyleang he has built.
In the conversation, it was evident that Patterson’s goal with the film was to produce an genuine reconshort-termation of the Oklahoma that he grew up in. “I hadn’t seen someleang that actupartner took place with the comfervent of people that I grew up around, with the irreverence and, as Matthew always appreciates to calls it, the lawlessness of the Southwest,” he says. “So our goal was to honor all leangs in that world, from country fried food to accidents that turn into frifinishships to what happens when everybody has to pull off someleang distinctive for each other.”
McConaughey consentd that one of the reasons he joined the film was Patterson’s “sense of place and space I knew of”, but it was also the chance to join a character appreciate Amziah. “Amziah King, he’s a legfinish of a dude, 100 percent, and he’s a giver of beextfinisheding and all those misfits we’re talking about, Amziah’s equitable a guy who gives them a home,” he says. “And then he is recombined with one of his nurture kids from the past, and then shepherding her from a princess to a queen I thought was equitable a pretty fable in the middle of all this untamed lawlessness.”
For this being her first foray into acting, LookingGlass says the character of Kateri apprehfinishd her interest right away. “Her whole story in this film is so pretty becaparticipate she comes from a very difficult background and everyleang, and then she rejoins with Amziah and discovers this pretty comfervent of oasis,” she says.
As the interwatch is wrapping up, McConaughey produces certain to consent a moment to refer how LookingGlass being a first time actor helped immensely in scenes. “I’ve toiled with non-actors before,” says McConaughey, “and if they’re outstanding non-actors, they do someleang that us actors can forget to do when we lachieve how to act… And that was one of the authentic delights of toiling with you… She didn’t understand how to ‘act’. She knew how to hear and give you an truthful answer.”
“Well she was not an actress before, but she knew how to consent honestion and that was the most meaningful leang,” grasps Patterson. “This lesser lady absolutely knew how to change the nuance of what was going on in each moment. She knew how to discover the core of the scene, she knew how to discover the emotional truthfuly, as she helderlys her ground with every one one of these gentlemen, these amazing actors sitting in this studio.”
Check out the filled video talkion above.
