Jesse EisenbergandRiley Keoughagree:Sasquatch Sunsetis, hands down, the weirdest movie theyve ever done.
There could be so many versions of a movie like this, theFleishman Is in Troubleactor says.
It could be low-brow.
Riley Keough in ‘Sasquatch Sunset’.Bleecker Street Media /Courtesy Everett
It could be sardonic or comical in a fake way.
And [the Zellners] just made the most beautiful, sophisticated, emotionally rich, earnest version.
Its just the best of what it could possibly be.
‘Sasquatch Sunset’.Bleecker Street Media /Courtesy Everett
Theres not an easy comp for describing it, David admits.
We really wanted to focus on the interior lives.
This is from the perspective of the sasquatch.
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival premiere of ‘Sasquatch Sunset’.Dia Dipasupil/Getty
Keough portrays the familys maternal figure, and Christophe Zajac-Denek plays the youngest sasquatch.
Everything was super helpful because I didnt know how to even prepare for this, Keough admits.
We kind of had to learn how to do everything as a sasquatch.
We had practiced all of that.
Just experimenting being sasquatches.
We came up with a vocabulary that we would use, Eisenberg adds.
Eisenberg adds that he found himself thinking a lot about his old dog, Tara.
My favorite time of day was giving Tara a walk so she could go pee, he explains.
And when Tara peed, she cocked her head peacefully to the side and just stared in the distance.
It was definitely a trip, theDaisy Jones & the Sixactress admits.
I remember my husband came to set, and he didnt want me to hug him.
So, keeping the eyes human was a key design choice.
We wanted them to have that tool as actors because we were taking so much away from them.
There was something about them discovering this foreign object thats just cutting a knife through their boundless landscape.
It was one of those things that I assume Ill never experience again.
Sasquatch Sunsetis now playing in limited release and expands nationwide on April 19.
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