Interviews With "Went Up The Hill" Star Vicky Krieps & Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"Went Up The Hill" is a thriller drama film directed by Samuel Van Grinsven starring Dacre Montgomery as Jack, a man returning to his native New Zealand to attend the funeral of his birth mother, from whom he was taken away and placed into foster care; he meets his mother's widow Jill (Vicky Krieps) for the first time, only for his mother to return in spirit form and inhabit both Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other. Van Grinsven and Krieps were kind enough to speak with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Greenwich Entertainment. 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 these are Nadia Dalamonte's interviews
0:05.5	with the writer and director for the film Went Up the Hill, Samuel Van Grinsfen,
0:10.8	and the film star Vicky Creeps.
0:13.8	It is somewhat of a quiet comfort to be able to be here together.
0:19.5	Elizabeth survived by her two greatest loves,
0:23.3	her work and you, her wife, Jill.
0:30.5	How did you know her?
0:32.9	I didn't know.
0:35.7	Or my son.
0:42.3	You should stay here.
0:43.3	There's a room down the hallway.
0:46.3	You sleep in here?
0:48.3	Yes.
0:52.3	You okay?
0:53.3	She is okay.
0:56.0	Who is?
0:57.8	Jill.
1:00.0	Who are you?
1:03.2	Your mother.
1:04.4	Well, Samuel, thank you so, so much for your time here.
1:07.6	It's really lovely to meet you, and I'm very excited to talk about this film with you
1:11.6	because it has such a unique concept. It's a ghost story told mainly from the perspective of
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