Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum are starring in a brand new film referred to as Josephine, and it looks as if a doozy. Chan, who just lately spoke with MovieWeb about her hypnotic noir thriller The Actor, opened up in regards to the filmmaking expertise behind Josephine. “I am not really certain what I am allowed to say about it. We now have completed filming it. We filmed it in San Francisco. It was such an unbelievable expertise,” mentioned Chan, who added:
“Beth de Araújo, the director, that is loosely based mostly off one thing that occurred in her childhood, so we had been all conscious of our duty to doing justice to one thing that was a narrative that is very private to her and her household. Channing was unbelievable. We had an incredible younger woman referred to as Mason who performs Josephine. I am actually excited. I have not seen the movie but, I feel they’re nonetheless simply ending up the edit. So I am excited to hopefully get to see it quickly, and hopefully you guys will get to see it too.”
“To be sincere, I wasn’t certain what we had been making at first,” admitted Chan with fun. “It is a drama, however her first movie is a thriller, and there are positively thriller parts in it as properly.” That first movie of de Araújo’s is the wonderful Comfortable & Quiet, so film lovers and followers of Chan ought to get enthusiastic about Josephine.
The True Story Behind ‘Josephine’
Josephine producer David Kaplan informed SFGATE, “It’s a story of a household coping with a private trauma after seeing one thing sudden and horrifying in Golden Gate Park.” De Araujo has been making an attempt to get the movie made for a couple of decade, and in 2019, she recounted the true story behind the movie at one of many storytelling occasions held by The Moth. As SFGATE studies: “When she was 8 years previous, de Araujo and her father drove to a distant a part of the park to play baseball. When her father turned off the automobile, they heard screams for assist. ‘It’s the form of sound that crawls up your pores and skin and bounces off of each floor round you,’ de Araujo mentioned on The Moth.” They proceed:
“Her father chased off the assailant, leaving de Araujo alone within the automobile. Ultimately, she obtained scared, went searching for her father and got here nose to nose with a sobbing lady. When she and her father obtained dwelling, they didn’t talk about what had transpired. De Araujo recalled changing into “hypervigilant” within the ensuing months, then years, requiring pals to face exterior the toilet, and being unable to sleep with out her father in the home. De Araujo informed SFGATE that just one scene from Josephine mirrors this childhood reminiscence, and that the remainder of the story is nearly fully completely different.”
Within the meantime, Chan stars reverse André Holland within the phenomenal avant-garde noir thriller, The Actor, directed by ‘Anomalisa’ filmmaker Duke Johnson. It is a mesmerizing, actually distinctive movie, and is in theaters now from NEON.
The Actor
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March 14, 2025
- Director
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Duke Johnson
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Stephen Cooney, Duke Johnson