Brandon Sklenar has admitted that his recent thriller movie Drop was “monotonous to shoot”.

In the mystery thriller film, which was released earlier this year, The White Lotus actress Meghann Fahy plays a widow who goes on her first date in years – with Sklenar’s photographer Henry – and is tormented by an anonymous person sending her threatening messages.

The majority of the story takes place during their date at a restaurant on the top floor of a skyscraper, and Sklenar has now admitted that he found it monotonous spending seven weeks sitting with Fahy at a table.

“I’m really happy people loved it, and Meghann became a dear friend and we made it fun, but man, that was monotonous to shoot,” he candidly told The Hollywood Reporter. “Sitting in that restaurant chair on a soundstage for seven weeks. One day, it was, ‘Do you want some calamari?’ And then the next day, ‘How’s your calamari?’ It was a f**king slog, if I’m being honest.”

The It Ends With Us actor’s comments are in stark contrast to how he discussed the one-location setting during the publicity tour in April.

“It was intense in that you’re in the same chair, in the same wardrobe, same background, same location. I’ve never done anything like that,” he told Marie Claire Australia. “It was probably one of the smoothest, most positive experiences I’ve had working on anything.”

In the same interview, Fahy explained that all of the restaurant-based actors had to be on set all day, every day, because the filmmaking team didn’t “really know how much we were gonna get through”.

The film, directed by Happy Death Day’s Christopher Landon, was filmed in a studio in Ireland. It received positive reviews from critics and made more than $28 million (£21 million) at the box office from an $11 million (£8 million) budget.

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