![]() They save themselves because their fellow band members will bring them back. ![]() You see somebody at a club they’re going to fuck up sometime during that two hours at some point. ![]() “ That’s because when you’re on stage for an hour and a half or two hours doing a play, you cannot be perfect the whole time. I asked my producing partner, Marco De Molina, ‘Who are you getting for this other part?’ What was so important, not because for the usual reasons of ‘I hope they’re very good,’ or’ I hope they compliment me well,’ or ‘I hope they have a name.’ The reason I asked him was for a generally very unusual reason, which is that person also needs to know theater. One thing that I insisted on but was already there when I read the script was that the guy who plays opposite me for most of the movie is also on camera for nearly as long as me without a break. All three were there, and I was very excited to have them all. It was like being back and doing a play again. Raimi continues, “There are different kinds of muscle strengths. It might be challenging, and it doesn’t mean you’re a bad actor for not being able to do it, but it’s very much like the difference between doing sustained pushups and sustained walking.” I felt very blessed and lucky, and I knew that I was capable of things that some actors trained exclusively in film, who may be fantastic actors, would tire out after 10 or 20 minutes of nonstop acting. So that was nice knowing that I was capable of that kind of stamina in front of the camera. I started doing theater when I was 16, so from about the age of 16 through about 22, I was doing almost exclusively theater. And I felt capable of doing such a thing because I got my training in theater first. He explains, “The scenario was very enticing because there are no cuts it’s an hour and a half and no cuts. When asked what would happen if a take was ruined, Raimi succinctly answers, “Start over from page one.” He adds, “And it was quite a challenge, but it turned out great.”įor Raimi, it wasn’t just the single-take concept that appealed to him, but the character and the film’s violence as well. But then they brought me on as a producer as well, so my duties increased to producorial as well as theatrical.” It was a great deal of work to prepare for that one. Because learning 30 pages in a week is a lot, and then you’re having me learn 90 pages in three weeks. I went, ‘ Are you guys out of your doggone minds?’ I said to them. They were going to shoot it in three weeks. “That’s how I approached the doggone thing,” Raimi explained the daunting task ahead of him as an actor. Raimi’s comparison emphasizes the ambitious scope of the film’s concept, shot in one continual take rather than a series of long takes connected through deceptive, clever editing. Ted Raimi and Director Alex Kahuam behind the scenes It is essentially a three-act play with no intermission.“ Yeah, isn’t that bananas? One shot, that’s the idea. But then the director of that short wrote a script, and he gave it to Marco, and Marco passed it along to me, and he said, ‘You’d be good in this.’ I read it, and it was pretty radical. We couldn’t raise the money, unfortunately. By doing so, we would have a short that we would then be able to take to investors and see if we could raise money. He wanted to start getting into the feature world and decided to start with a short from a director that he knew named Alex Kahuam, and it was called ‘Red Light.’ It was a traditional slasher, and he wanted me to do it. And Marco was nominated for a Grammy for one of his videos last year. “My producing partner, Marco De Molina, is best known for producing multitudinous amounts of huge budget music videos for big stars. The producer/actor shares how Failure! came together. Ted Raimi exclusively spoke with Bloody Disgusting about Failure!, detailing the challenges of making a single-take feature-length thriller. That’s burying the lede, however, as Raimi’s latest takes on the daunting task of capturing this moral conundrum through one single take. In Failure!, Ted Raimi produces and stars as a man forced to choose between financial ruin and murder with little time to process, resulting in a crime thriller that delivers on violence. Up next for the horror stalwart is Failure!, an ambitious, violent thriller premiering this Sunday under the Fantastic Pavilion at this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film. Actor Ted Raimi loves horror so much that he’s dedicated much of his career to it, providing fans with an endless array of memorable characters from Evil Dead II’s Henrietta to last year’s morally complex Travis Hackett in video game The Quarry. ![]()
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