Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman Discuss Difficult Themes of 'Killing of a Sacred Deer' | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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"There's a certain twisted logic in the script that defies your need to work it out in the kind of measured way you might usually approach a script. You just kind of trust in the mystery of it," Farrell told THR.

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00:00this one started with a with a young boy who wanted to seek justice for the

00:04death of his father from a much older man and the dynamic is a much older man

00:10relax now relax on the much older well in the end the boy became older

00:23I'm really sorry about pot something serious no it is

00:29human race human race where did you go I just played them like you know you go

00:36into these characters and you you shouldn't judge your characters you just

00:39played them as you know everything that they're doing is right so I mean I just

00:45went in on that's what I don't I turned out to be one of the creepiest roles I've

00:49ever played creepy man he's responsible not me like oh you're playing a very nice

00:56don't shoot the best way in a very creepy yeah now there's a certain twisted

01:01logic in the script that defies your need to work it out in the kind of you know

01:07measured way you might usually approach a script and you kind of just trust in the

01:10mystery of us you know and having seen York's work as all of us did before I

01:14certainly did before I worked on the lobster and Nicole and and Barry how

01:18before they both worked on this so you just have an enormous amount of trust for

01:22director of of his kind of ability you know his his vision is there anything

01:27intimidating or a new challenge that the overall theme was pretty bleak stuff yeah

01:34well I don't know if it I mean I think you you were describing it well you know guys

01:40it's funny how we it's funny how we we're positioned aren't we as you say poking the

01:48finger into places that that sometimes I mean that are experiences that they that

01:55they used to in terms of years ago it was far more explored a lot of the themes

02:00that are in this movie and other other movies that your ghost makes but a lot of

02:06times now those areas are not sort of poked into because they're considered oh

02:11people don't want to go there come on help me out there's a facade okay we'll

02:26eliminate that work but um but there is a sort of yeah I think that the themes of

02:33this movie he's he's exploring and and people come out thinking and and asking

02:40a lot of questions actually I've had so many people when they see it ask me

02:44questions and and want to understand it and then have their own ideas and

02:51evaluations of what it is which is fantastic I love that I love that response

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Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman Discuss Difficult Themes of 'Killing of a Sacred Deer' | TIFF 2017

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