Passenger, Lou Llobell interview

Maddy. This movie is about a couple who decides to leave their lives and live on the road in a van and they get marked by a demon and chased and they have to fight to survive. When we first meet Maddy, she is packing up her life in Brooklyn, New York, packing up her memories, her, you know, belongings, and kind of reminiscing on that. 

Which is really, you know, it's a, it's, it's a great way to start the film because it kind of shows a little touch on like how they were living before and you kind of dive straight into van life, which is really great. It's so easy with Jacob. He's like, I trust him so much. We've not known each other long and he's like become one of my closest friends and it's really really wonderful to work with him. He's so talented and doing the building of the characters and the building of that relationship was really easy with him cause we got along instantly and that was really wonderful. Joseph is amazing and he's so talented and so committed. He'll be like between takes kind of like whisper at me and be like, Maddy, Maddy, I'm coming for you. And I'm like, I can't. It's too much. 

And it's really like, and I know it's his place of like getting there, but it's actually really creepy and he does a very good job being the scary guy in this movie. A lot of my screams are genuine when he pops up. It's eerie, it's scary. There's a mystery behind him. You don't know whether he's real or not and he has this ability of like shifting your reality as well as murdering you, but, yeah, it's, he's eerie. You don't know where he's come from. He's kind of someone from like that, is he a real person? Is he like just a, you know, ethereal being that is in a body? You don't know where, yeah, so it's like I don't know, you don't know much about him, and I think that makes it scarier. Working with Melissa is great. She's very supportive. 

She's brilliant at what she does and has this kind of like grace and, and presence. You know, it's always really exciting and I always feel really lucky working with seasoned actors because you learn a lot and when you can kind of feel comfortable and do feel like you're on par with them, it, you know, it makes you, it makes me feel anyway like I'm doing what I love and I'm where I'm supposed to be. It is incredible how many different kinds of terrains there are here. It's beautiful. Like the mountains, the desert, like all the little towns we've kind of been to. Seattle itself was also like an amazing thing to be able to, to visit and be there. I feel really lucky. It, we've spoken about this quite a bit with the crew. It's kind of special to be on location for pretty much the entire tree of this movie. You don't get that often and creatively like being in the situation that the characters in are in, you know, like we're kind of on the road too and, and we're kind of living what they're living in parallel and that's makes it easier to kind of draw from that too, you know, cuz you want to draw from your reality as well. 

So, yeah, it's been an experience and I've loved every minute of it. It's like a small space. You don't have, it's like your safe space is, is not very big, you know, and it's not that safe. I mean, anyone can, you can, you're out there in, on the road, like you're parking in parking lots and, you know, sleeping in, in parking lots or like campsites and you're meeting new people all the time. You just never know who you're going to come across. You never know what you're going to find, and I think that in itself is scary.