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Kevin Drew on The Water and Cillian
27 June 2009 at 11:14 PM | by Melty_Girl and Pisces
[Note: The CillianSite has a new contributing editor, Pisces, writing here for the first time.]
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Filter Magazine had actor Zach Galifianakis sit down with Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew to talk about creating The Water, Drew's enigmatic short film that debuted online this April. According to the article, Drew, who met Cillian following a BSS show in London, seems to feel that our favorite actor is in danger of being typecast:
People won't break out of tradition on things and [Hollywood] film suffers because of that. I had this conversation with Cillian—who's a brilliant fucking actor—about how, of course, when he comes to America, he gets stuck doing what so many Irish actors do; he plays the villain.
Drew also addresses the ambiguous nature of The Water's plot when Galifianakis's asks, "... why such an open-ended ending?"
I would have loved it if we could have done the big-budget, Hollywood ending and seen the couple walk into the pond, but we couldn't do it. They would have frozen to death and I would have felt bad. So that was the ending that we could do, and I'm happy with it. ... I'm happy that it comes across like a poem and there's not much to it. ...
I've tried so hard to not directly tell people the story, because I believe it can be up to anyone's interpretation. In pretty much all the interviews I've done, the first question is, "So, tell us the story." And I go, "No, I can't tell you the story, because that's for you."
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