Referred to as “2020: The Movie” the actor-director’s acclaimed new thriller – set in her own house – focuses on anxiety, contagion and mortality
Thanks to endless Zoom calls with colleagues and the home-broadcasting of celebrities around the globe, lockdown has made interior decor voyeurs of us all. In the case of actor-director Amy Seimetz, however, it’s not just her living room wallpaper that’s made its way into the public realm. Like many, I have become intimately acquainted with practically every nook and cranny of her compact, pleasingly neutral LA abode (when she briefly pauses our chat to let the plumber in, I can visualise her front door in my head, clear as day). For once, the weirdness isn’t pandemic-related – it’s because Seimetz’s house doubles as the set of her new film, She Dies Tomorrow, a psychological horror about anxiety, contagion and our relationship with our own mortality.
If you think shooting a horror film in your house and subsequently being trapped there alone for months on end during a global pandemic might have disturbing knock-on effects, think again. “Through film-making I learned to love my house!” says Seimetz, who claims that prior to the shoot she “didn’t know what to do with” her new home. “Because I treat atmosphere in my movies like a character, the house now is a living being to me. It’s not just that I love the house, I feel like the house loves me.” She pauses. “I don’t really, I’m not crazy. Or maybe a little bit.”
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