Elizabeth Reaser had ‘interesting dynamic’ with Walton Goggins and his wife on The Uninvited
Elizabeth Reaser admitted that working with couples can be “tricky”.
Elizabeth Reaser has admitted it was sometimes “challenging” working with Walton Goggins and his wife Nadia Conners on their new movie The Uninvited.
In the new comedy-drama, which Conners wrote and directed, the Twilight star plays actress-turned-homemaker Rose alongside The White Lotus actor as her agent husband Sammy.
When asked if it was odd playing Goggins’ on-screen wife in front of his real-life partner, Reaser told Cover Media, “Yes and no. I mean, no, in the sense of that when you’re rolling, you’re just there and I’m that person and Walton’s my (character’s) husband and that’s just real and it’s not difficult at all.”
She continued, “I think it’s challenging on a set, you know, that’s an interesting dynamic, it’s always going to be. I think, you know, playing a version of Nadia with her real-life husband and how they’re navigating that and I’m navigating that and the sort of triangle experience is always… I’ve done a version of that before where I think it’s tricky. I think it’s really hard, (married) people working together. I think it can be a tricky dynamic.”
Reaser noted that the trio never had a conversation about that dynamic and went into the shoot “as professionals” and “did our best” to honour Conners’ project.
She went on to share that she had a different dynamic with her friend Conners once they stepped into their respective roles of actress and director.
“I can be a certain type of friend to you but I can’t be that same person at work. I have to work. It’s just different,” she explained. “I was friends with Nadia before and we had a very different relationship on set than we had off-set. Very different. Like completely different. Because I can be a person that I can’t be while I’m at work, especially when you’re carrying a movie and you have 15 days to shoot. It’s always interesting. Sets are messy places, you know?”
In the movie, Rose and Sammy host a garden party which goes off the rails with the arrival of Rose’s movie star ex Lucien (Pedro Pascal) and a confused elderly woman named Helen (Lois Smith) who believes she lives there.
The Uninvited is in cinemas on Friday 9 May (theuninvited.movie).
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