‘Possessor’ Stars Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott

Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott are usually not on display screen collectively a lot in Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller “Possessor,” however they every needed to undertake the opposite’s mannerisms and act as in the event that they had been one individual.

In “Possessor,” Riseborough performs a world-class killer who makes use of a complicated mind implant expertise to take over the thoughts of an unsuspecting host performed by Abbott and commit the right crime. So, in a method, Riseborough and Abbott are every enjoying themselves and their co-star.

“She’s malleable and stealthy and spends her life really shape-shifting, occupying the psyche of people one after another in order to commit these crimes,” Riseborough advised TheWrap’s Brian Welk at Sundance. “She is a person not really tethered to her own identity any longer when you come to meet her at the beginning of the film.”

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Riseborough’s character begins off the movie spying on Abbott’s, repeating again his phrases in order that she will nail the inflections of his voice and his mannerisms as soon as she takes management of his thoughts. But when the film shifts to Abbott’s perspective, he needed to be cautious to behave as if he was being possessed by Riseborough and particularly how she would do it.

“There’s a lot of conversations that we had together, a lot of talking about it, a lot of fun actor-y stuff of, little gestures that we can mimic, or I would ask Andrea, ‘How did you do this?’ Fun, little weird exercises like this that slowly but surely evolved into a strange duality.”

“And the really interesting and complex thing is that not just that she’s then occupying this character Colin, who Chris plays, but somebody is occupying this character Colin who really has no sense of self and really has so many identities and has occupied the brain of perhaps, I don’t know how many people, 100 or more,” Riseborough added.

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Cronenberg, who’s the son of filmmaker David Cronenberg, explains that the sci-fi trappings of “Possessor” are actually only a metaphor for the way individuals can really feel as if they’re shedding management over their very own lives.

“It’s a movie that’s sort of designed to leave some space for discussion,” Cronenberg mentioned. “But the sci-fi elements are essentially a metaphor for in some ways the way we construct our identities and maintain them and how acting and building character and narrative are fundamental to how we operate as people.”

Check out the interview with the staff from “Possessor” above.