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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Oddity" Actors Carolyn Bracken & Gwilym Lee

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

"Oddity" had its world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section of the festival. Actors Carolyn Bracken & Gwilym Lee were kind enough to spend a few minutes with us talking about their characters, the jump scares, interpretations of the film's ending, and more, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from IFC Films and will be made available to stream on Shudder at a later date. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the stars from the film Oddity, Willem Lee, and Carolyn Bracken.

0:10.0

Could you open the door?

0:12.1

What do you want?

0:14.2

You're in trouble.

0:16.0

What?

0:17.1

Would you just open the door?

0:19.6

I am telling you that there is someone in there with you.

0:23.6

Why do you want to?

0:36.6

He took my sister's life.

0:39.3

I want to see what was going through his mind.

0:42.3

I watched this and I had a great time, some of the better jump scares I've had in a while.

0:47.3

So great little experience there.

0:51.3

Carolyn, I'll start with you. This can't have been easy playing two very distinct

0:59.4

characters. So tell me a little bit about kind of establishing the background and building out people

1:07.6

who are supposed to be twins, but clearly personality-wise are very, very different.

1:13.6

Yeah, I think I realized fairly early on that I was not going to be able to do it or build it on my own.

1:22.6

I knew that I'd need a little bit of help.

1:31.1

And, you know, just the script itself was brilliant.

1:36.7

I loved reading it and really, really wanted the parts and just the challenge of being able to see if I could, you know, rise to it.

1:40.9

But I did find out very quickly that, you know, you can't do it alone. You can't loan

1:45.3

wolf it. So just the other departments involved that helped me build Darcy and Danny where I couldn't

1:55.7

have done it without them. In particular, Damien, of course, with his amazing direction and just his knowledge of the genre

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