(SPOT.ph) The Guilty is currently leveling up the stress factor as the third top title on Netflix Philippines (as if Squid Game wasn't enough!). We're sure you've heard about the new Jake Gyllenhaal movie and its unusual premise of an entire thriller film in just one location (read: his character's 911 Operator station-slash-office). Well, it turns out it's not just the story's presentation that's pretty unique, even how it was made was unusual—and very timely. Gyllenhaal and director Antoine Fuqua were never even in the same room throughout shooting. Instead, Fuqua was isolating in a van outside the set the entire time!
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The Guilty was shot while director Antoine Fuqua was in isolation the entire time:
The Guilty was shot in October 2020. Just a few days before they were set to start, it was confirmed Fuqua was recently exposed to someone who had COVID-19, Gyllenhaal explains in a Netflix interview. "So we devised this plan. We got this van with monitors in it. So Antoine ended up directing the entire movie from the confines of a van a block away from the stage."
Fuqua oversaw everything with the help of technology, monitors, and yup, Zoom. A set-up that actually makes sense for a movie told from the single perspective of a 911 operator as he tries to save an abducted woman using only calls and screens as well.
"It is a film about sound, about listening, about what you hear and what the reality is," explained Fuqua in another Netflix Film Club video. So if you really felt the stress while watching the movie, then just note that was their goal!
"He had all the monitors around him. Three walkie-talkies, headphone, the 'god' video so he could see the whole set," explains Gyllenhaal of the director's magic van. He added that they would even FaceTime too when the Fuqua had specific instructions for him on set.
Plus, the actor and director explained that most of the dialogue you hear between Gyllenhaal's characters and the people he was calling actually came from their Zoom calls-slash-rehearsals. "We used a lot of the dialgue from the first Zoom calls because the performances were just so raw," said Fuqua.
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