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Alright everybody, welcome to The Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense, joined by Jonathan Watkins. Hello, hello.

And today we have a very special guest, it's the director and co-writer of a movie called Every Last One of Them.

Christian Sesma, the movie comes out in theaters on demand and digital on October 22nd. Christian, welcome.

Thank you, thank you. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. So what was the inspiration for your story?

Well, I mean, was this script came across to me from my producing partner Mike Hatton and the sales guys over and the producers over at 101 Films in the UK.

And when I got the script, it was a very different, it was a different title, different a lot of things.

And, but I felt it had like the really great bones to be something special if I was allowed to kind of go off on this daughter storyline and really just rework it.

And they were totally, they were totally supportive and really creatively allowed me to do what I wanted to do.

And, you know, I was like, look, I'm a giant Taylor Sheridan fan with River, the other side tried to kind of take this standard, you know, Rambo first blood, shoot him up and kind of use this really deeper layered storyline about really failed fatherhood, which is what I think is the core of this movie, you know.

Yeah, you know, you have a variety of characters here who are all kind of, you know, they're kind of bad guys, but even your hero doesn't kind of doesn't come out of this completely clean. Is that sort of what you were going for?

Yeah, 100%. I mean, I think this what we are trying to ground it and really just make it that, you know, there's really, I think it's in life, it's very, you know, the heroes and the villains and those lines get pretty blurred most of the time and it's really interesting to kind of explore that.

And like I've said before, you know, Paul Sloan's character Jake and he and Paul did an amazing job on this and that was the idea to kind of give him some to shine here that I knew he would, but really just give his character something to really deal with, but really it's this whole movie is of is of Jake, Jake's own making.

And it's some of those things, those things that we go through life and we go, man, I wouldn't know that these decisions would have these consequences, but they do.

Yeah, he is, yeah, you mentioned the failed fatherhood and everything and many times throughout this movie, especially the Richard Drifest character talks about how this guy goes out and he is the guy who protects other people.

But he has somehow failed with his daughter. Could you give some background on your main character who is Jake Hunter?

Yeah, so I mean, Jake is that. I mean, I think it's, he's an every man. I mean, he's a, he's a, you know, the typical special forces character in these kind of movies, but what I wanted to kind of really dig deeper storyline wise is, you know, I'm a father and, you know, I have two girls and, you know, my cinematographer who was like, he's a father.

We always talk about what it is to, to be in this business as, as, as, as parents. And I think it's military. It's very similar. You go off, you spend time away from the family, you're trying to figure it out as you go and this kind of, these kind of things. And so with this character, Jake, we really try to mind for that and really make that his core storyline as opposed to what originally is like, you know, he's, he's out, he's doing these missions.

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