Bridget Savage Cole y Danielle Krudy invitan al terror de "House of Spoils"
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00:00Amigos de Diario de las Américas, me encuentro con Daniel Crudy y Richard Savage-Cole,
00:10director y guionista de House of Spoil, película que abre esta semana en Prime Video.
00:14Beautiful sight upstate. All yours, baby.
00:21House of Spoil is a movie about contrast.
00:24We have the top chef, modern cuisine and the old spooky house,
00:29the fear of failure and the terror of the monster inside our heads.
00:34And what is real, what is not.
00:37As a screenwriter, which motivation or themes drive you to create this story?
00:43Well, first of all, just like amazing summary of just like everything crazy that's in there.
00:50Very like hit it nail on the head.
00:52You know, we kept coming back to like the theme of prove yourself versus like lose yourself in a lot of ways.
01:00And this like sort of like seesaw between like trying hard to fight and to improve in like a really forwardly aggressive and way and in a way where you could have a sort of then on the other side, like, like, whatever is that without ego, you know, just to lose yourself and allow sort of things to flow and things to come more naturally.
01:26So that was like really center, like whenever we were sort of like lost in the mix of all the elements.
01:32I love how you said it, though, just the monster in our in your head and the self-doubt is sort of this corrosive thing that sort of leads to the psychosis in the movie.
01:42And we really hope people can connect with that and sort of the battles you have to fight within your own head to rise into a position of power and confidence and authority.
01:53What was that all about? Look, there is something very wrong with this place. You are the chef.
01:57Oh, my God. This is on you. You continue to have anxiety. This is your second feature film, right?
02:03How is your dynamic working together as directors? What do you think one brings to the other working as a team?
02:12You go ahead, Cri.
02:15We are both so immersed in the material by the time we get to set because writing it is part of the journey to prepare to direct it.
02:25So, you know, we spent so much time with the ideas and cultivating the ideas that by the time we get to set, we're like equally steeped.
02:34And actually, it's just amazing to have a partner who's in the trenches with you on the day you as a director fight so many fights.
02:41Actually, you really you like push for things and you have to like decide where to put energy towards.
02:46So actually having someone to share that load with you to like take a battle towards like, you know, pushing for for the right location or pushing for, you know, to prioritize one thing over another.
02:59It's amazing to share that with someone who is invested on the ground level to the same ideas and like the creative commitment and devotion.
03:06So I would say that Bridget, what do you think?
03:10Yes, and it's great. We keep each other sane to when something crazy happens on set and you say, is it me?
03:16And then you say, no, no, no, wait, this is really crazy because sets are crazy and stuff happens all the time that you cannot expect.
03:22And, you know, I think what Cruddy said, we have to we get to help, you know, double the passion.
03:29And that's that's what that's what we want to bring to our films as much as possible.
03:33We have a squid ink risotto.
03:43It was hot.
03:44What does Arianna DeVos add to her character that wasn't in the screenplay in first time?
03:52Oh, that's great. Great question. I want to think of a good answer.
03:57I think she found her own way to make Chef even when she's really pissed, but like find her own sort of like way to make Chef.
04:11But like find your own sort of like wit and like that's her very own special brand of like Arianna humor.
04:19And, you know, Chef had some like funny lines on the page, but Arianna kind of like, I feel like she really found the way that Chef could be funny, but still powerful and still like.
04:33Yes, sharp as a knife.
04:36You know, it's really hard to be serious and funny at the same time.
04:42Not that many actors, you know, not many actors are really fun to watch when they're angry.
04:48And she really is. I feel like it's like, you know, it's a special gift.
04:52And we love that she brought also a levity and a fun and a swagger to this role that that really made it come alive.
05:00We think of her as another author and we really feel like she brought her whole self in there.
05:06The house is like another protagonist in the movie. How did you find it?
05:14We went to Budapest, we saw pictures of of houses and then when we went there, there were the houses we went for weren't available.
05:24And we had a local location scout working together with our production designer, Alexander Schaller.
05:32And actually she gets all the credit for seeing the House of Spoils house in a house that we were convinced that could work.
05:42Because actually it was painted yellow. It didn't have a kitchen. It was utterly, totally different.
05:48And she said, I can make this the House of Spoils house.
05:52And so she built the kitchen, she aged the house, she put vines all over the house.
05:58She custom made the wallpaper and she really created that house from almost nothing.
06:04Yeah, she had this vision for it that was incredible. I mean, that kitchen was a bedroom.
06:10Like that's crazy, right?
06:12That's crazy.
06:14That's crazy.