Sean Baker might have scooped up Oscar trophies in each filmmaker’s dream classes this yr, however let’s not neglect the enduring Alejandro G. Iñárritu received Greatest Director two years in a row for Birdman after which The Revenant. It is onerous to consider the latter movie was launched 10 years in the past at this level, the only real movie that has earned Leonardo DiCaprio an Academy Award for Greatest Lead Actor. Alongside him in The Revenant was a proficient ensemble that included longtime performer Lukas Haas, whose newest movie, Excessive Rollers, is now accessible on demand and digital. MovieWeb lately caught up with Haas whereas he was selling the film, and the actor took time to share about his expertise working with Iñárritu — particularly because the director’s star-studded subsequent movie is taking form.
“We keep in contact right here and there. I’ve not heard a lot about his new movie, however it sounds actually cool. What I’ve heard might be nothing that you have not.” Haas informed us. “However with The Revenant, , he is only a good man. And it was a very, actually troublesome shoot, is the reality. However that was his intention, ? He even laid all of it out for us to start with. We had a gathering — all of the actors and him — and he was like, ‘Alright, pay attention. So, that is going to be very, very onerous, and that is the entire level,’ ?” Haas continued about The Revenant:
He is like, “It is all about ache and struggling. That is what this film is about. So, you’re going to be in ache, you are going to be struggling, and I will be in ache, I will be struggling. We’re all going to undergo this collectively.”
“It wasn’t actually sugar-coated,” defined Haas. “We weren’t in, like, trendy garments that have been made to seem like outdated garments. We have been in these outdated bear skins and stuff. So it was fairly the expertise, and it was an extended highway. You already know, we have been there for a lot of months, I feel one thing like six, seven months in Calgary. So it was fairly remoted. And it was, it was a kind of issues the place, , you nearly begin to really feel despondent since you’re so remoted.” He added:
“However it was undoubtedly value it… You’re getting to essentially type of watch these good filmmakers at work and watch them transfer, [Emmanuel Lubezki, aka] Chivo and his unimaginable cinematography… And all these unimaginable individuals, Leo and all people working collectively. It was an actual deal with.”
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Lukas Haas on Capturing within the “Vegas of the South”
Excessive Rollers
- Launch Date
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March 14, 2025
- Ranking
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R
- Genres
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Thriller, Motion, Crime
- Runtime
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101 minutes
- Solid
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Abigail Spear, Demi Castro, Religion Stowers, Natali Yura, Daniel Louis Rivas, Quavo, Derrick Goodman Jr., Danny Pardo, Leslee Emmett, Kelly Greyson, Swen Temmel, Gina Gershon, Lukas Haas, John Travolta
- Writers
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Chris Sivertson
- Producers
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Cecil Chambers, Randall Emmett
A decade later, Haas is in additional snug productions, together with a pair of caper flicks alongside John Travolta. First there was Money Out, launched final yr, centered on a modern-day financial institution heist gone mistaken. Then got here the short follow-up, this yr’s Excessive Rollers, a shiny sequel that sees Haas and Travolta taking over a swanky on line casino for the final word theft. The primary movie was shot in Georgia, whereas the sequel was completed in Mississippi — and Haas weighed in on which expertise was extra rewarding:
“We have been form of on this type of darkish financial institution with no home windows [for Cash Out], and it was additionally in part of city that… wasn’t in essentially the most thrilling space. Biloxi, however, is only a actually enjoyable spot… I did not even know that this existed, however it was like a Vegas of the South, principally. So there’s every kind of casinos there, and it is also simply in a lovely a part of the South. I went on some highway journeys round there, went to Florida and went throughout. So undoubtedly [High Rollers] was extra enjoyable.”
Expertise the enjoyable for your self. From Saban Movies, Excessive Rollers is now accessible on demand and digital.