[Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen “Freaky.”]
In Christopher Landon’s “Freaky,” 6-foot-5-inch-tall actor Vince Vaughn, who plays a serial killer, body swaps with 5-foot-5-inch-tall Kathryn Newton — and as it turns out, Vaughn had some tricks up his sleeve to help Newton embody that physicality.
“Vince is so great — it was such a collaborative experience and he gave me so many great ideas and I got so inspired from him,” Newton told TheWrap. “We talked a lot about the physicality of both characters. Millie is all over the place, and her center of gravity is like the top of her head, and she’s hunched over and insecure and talks with her hands way too much. And I was like, ‘well, I do that, so I think Millie should do that and have these nervous tics.’ I was like, ‘we need to change me. I can’t be like Millie at all and the butcher.
In Christopher Landon’s “Freaky,” 6-foot-5-inch-tall actor Vince Vaughn, who plays a serial killer, body swaps with 5-foot-5-inch-tall Kathryn Newton — and as it turns out, Vaughn had some tricks up his sleeve to help Newton embody that physicality.
“Vince is so great — it was such a collaborative experience and he gave me so many great ideas and I got so inspired from him,” Newton told TheWrap. “We talked a lot about the physicality of both characters. Millie is all over the place, and her center of gravity is like the top of her head, and she’s hunched over and insecure and talks with her hands way too much. And I was like, ‘well, I do that, so I think Millie should do that and have these nervous tics.’ I was like, ‘we need to change me. I can’t be like Millie at all and the butcher.
- 12/4/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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