'Borderline' Director Jimmy Warden On Getting Special Permission To Use THAT Puzzle

Dread Central

'Borderline' is out now on VOD. Read our review here: https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/525365/borderline-review-ray-nicholson-carries-new-horror-comedy/  Dread Central https://www.dreadcentral.com/  Check Out Our Podcast Network- https://www.dreadcentral.com/dread-podcast-network/  Grab your Dread merchandise, movies, and more- https://store.dreadcentral.com/  Follow Dread Central on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/DreadCentral Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/dreadcentral/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/DreadCentral TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@dreadcentral

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm Mary Beth McAndrews from Dread Central. How are y'all?

00:03Good, how are you?

00:04Doing very well.

00:05So good. First question, are all of you puzzle freaks or is it just Jimmy who is a puzzle freak?

00:11Hell yeah.

00:12It's her. It's actually her.

00:13It's just Sam.

00:14Jimmy's not great at it.

00:16I'm okay at it.

00:17You're a puzzle freak?

00:18You're getting better, actually. Can I just say?

00:20I need a task. If she's like, find the blue ones, I can go find the blue ones.

00:25You have to be the one to find out the corner pieces.

00:27I'm the sorter, I think.

00:29Sam uses puzzle as a verb. Like, I'm like, hey, what are you doing? She's like, I'm puzzling.

00:34Yeah.

00:35And I'm like, whoa. I puzzle.

00:38Did you add it to the story or was it just a coincidence that you were also a puzzler?

00:43Well, Jimmy and I are married, so he was inspired by me puzzling.

00:48Yeah, it started by me just stealing little pieces.

00:52She would finish a puzzle and then I would just take one out.

00:55That was you.

00:56I would say something about it and then I would put it back in later.

00:59And she's like, how did that get back in there?

01:01That, gaslighting. That is gaslighting behavior.

01:04Yeah.

01:05That's actually, there's a movie called Gaslighting that's literally like that.

01:08I was going to say, that's modern day gaslighting.

01:10Incredible.

01:11Incredible. Okay, I'm a huge puzzle freak, so I had to ask about, especially the junior puzzle, how did you find that?

01:17That is the most incredible gag I've ever heard.

01:23That was, we had to clear that and both of them, Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger said yes, that we could use their likenesses.

01:33No way, that's so good.

01:34That was in there from, I think the first draft.

01:37Gosh.

01:38Which is like, they would have a junior puzzle.

01:40So good.

01:41That is incredible because I thought that it was a fever dream that my mom made up.

01:44So thank you for confirming that that movie is an actual real movie that does exist.

01:49It's real.

01:50I feel like I've never heard anyone else talk about it.

01:52But Ray, I think one of my favorite parts of this movie is the giggle that you let out throughout this film.

01:59So I wanted to hear more about how you kind of shaped Paul's character and his mannerisms because you really nail them.

02:06The giggle, well, I mean, a lot of it, when you're working, to me, the only difference between any spiritual practice and art is deadlines, like the day that you shoot.

02:19So you're constantly building and doing it until you let it go.

02:24And I think a lot of that was just the movies that we talked about.

02:30We talked about King of Comedy.

02:32I'm a huge Jim Carrey fan as well.

02:35I think that Ace Ventura 1 and 2 are on the same scale as The Godfather 1 and 2.

02:42They're both perfect movies.

02:44I like that. It's a hot take, but I really like it.

02:46They're both perfect sequels.

02:48They should be regarded in the same breadth in cinematic history.

02:52So that was definitely part of it.

02:54And just like, you know, the big obstacle with this character was I felt that he needed to be really likable.

03:02And somehow the first time that you see this guy, he fully stabs someone.

03:09And it's like, how do I create a character that's so soft and fanciful and giggly and sweet?

03:18It's like, oh wow, maybe I want to...

03:20Maybe this guy is a good guy.

03:22Maybe they should be together.

03:24I know! Parts of me were like, why am I thinking this?

03:26I don't usually think this in movies, what is going on?

03:29So good job.

03:31I just wanted to give him a hug a little bit.

03:33A little scary, but...

03:35A little scary, but you know, kind of...

03:37Dangerous, but nice.

03:39Which makes him so creepy as well.

03:43What? What do you mean?

03:47And then on the other side, I want to hear about making Sophia a pop star.

03:52And both Jimmy and Samara, how you worked together to craft this kind of...

03:56I mean, the lore of her with all of the baseball uniform from her costume and all the posters.

04:02What was that like crafting a background for a fictional pop star?

04:07I mean, that was all Jimmy.

04:09We had fun with that though.

04:11What is there? There's lose on first.

04:13We had a photo shoot and all the...

04:16Lose on first, yeah.

04:18Joan of Arc, I think she did.

04:20Medusa.

04:22It's kind of like the movies that maybe they would make that shouldn't be 100 million dollar movies in the 90s.

04:28But someone spent the money on it.

04:30Yeah.

04:32And they probably tanked.

04:34Yeah, we tanked.

04:36They didn't do that well.

04:38There was a day where we had a photo shoot that was all the album covers and movie covers.

04:43And that was so fun.

04:45We literally had a dress up box and we would just keep putting on 90s.

04:49We had her entire Wikipedia in the future planned out.

04:55What were all of her album titles.

04:59What movies was she in.

05:01Her IMDB almost.

05:03That's so fun.

05:06I want to read that just because it sounds so fun.

05:08Yeah.

05:10Well thank you all so much and congrats on Borderline.

05:12I had an absolute blast with this movie.

05:14So thank you so much.

05:18Have a good one.

Category

Transcript

Recommended