Elizabeth Banks about the upcoming thriller Skincare and her character Hope Goldman being ripped from the headlines.
ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Skincare star Elizabeth Banks about the upcoming thriller directed by Austin Peters. IFC Films will release the movie exclusively in theaters on August 16, 2024.
Tyler Treese: Congrats on Skincare. What I liked about the film is that it is really fun, but it’s also a very great character study of who you play, Hope Goldman. I read that you didn’t find out that it was based on true events until later on in production. I feel like that helps the movie because you can really just focus on the character and not feel beholden to anything. So I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
Look, I love that. I think it’s a great connection for the audience to feel. Sometimes I feel like Hollywood, every story’s been done. The ripped from the headlines helps us tell people we can’t make this stuff up. You know? It’s like if we told you that we wrote this, you might think that we made it up. It was fake. That’s too much. But actually, things like this are happening in the world around us all the time.
I love that you noticed that. Yeah, I felt the same way. I felt like it was a vicious cycle, right? Every time she would get back a little sense of control by over-controlling something, it would just like get worse and then she would have to work harder at it. I just felt, again, like that ramping up of all of that was one of the most fun things about playing this role and about the trajectory of the movie.
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