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Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott are not on screen together much in Brandon Cronenberg\u2019s sci-fi thriller \u201cPossessor,\u201d but they each had to adopt the other\u2019s mannerisms and act as if they were one person.<\/p>\n
In \u201cPossessor,\u201d Riseborough plays a world-class killer who uses an advanced brain implant technology to take over the mind of an unsuspecting host played by Abbott and commit the perfect crime. So, in a way, Riseborough and Abbott are each playing themselves and their co-star.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s malleable and stealthy and spends her life really shape-shifting, occupying the psyche of people one after another in order to commit these crimes,\u201d Riseborough told TheWrap\u2019s Brian Welk at Sundance. \u201cShe is a person not really tethered to her own identity any longer when you come to meet her at the beginning of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also Read:<\/strong> ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Director Explains Why Her Stars Auditioned in a Bathroom (Video)<\/p>\n Riseborough\u2019s character starts off the film spying on Abbott\u2019s, repeating back his words so that she can nail the inflections of his voice and his mannerisms once she takes control of his mind. But when the movie shifts to Abbott\u2019s perspective, he had to be careful to act as though he was being possessed by Riseborough and specifically how she would do it.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of conversations that we had together, a lot of talking about it, a lot of fun actor-y stuff of, little gestures that we can mimic, or I would ask Andrea, \u2018How did you do this?\u2019 Fun, little weird exercises like this that slowly but surely evolved into a strange duality.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the really interesting and complex thing is that not just that she\u2019s then occupying this character Colin, who Chris plays, but somebody is occupying this character Colin who really has no sense of self and really has so many identities and has occupied the brain of perhaps, I don\u2019t know how many people, 100 or more,\u201d Riseborough added.<\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong> ‘Possessor’ Film Review: Brandon Cronenberg’s Thriller Offers Lots of Body Horror but Nobody to Care About<\/p>\n Cronenberg, who is the son of filmmaker David Cronenberg, explains that the sci-fi trappings of \u201cPossessor\u201d are really just a metaphor for how people can feel as though they\u2019re losing control over their own lives.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a movie that\u2019s sort of designed to leave some space for discussion,\u201d Cronenberg said. \u201cBut the sci-fi elements are essentially a metaphor for in some ways the way we construct our identities and maintain them and how acting and building character and narrative are fundamental to how we operate as people.\u201d<\/p>\n Check out the interview with the team from \u201cPossessor\u201d above.<\/p>\n Read original story \u2018Possessor\u2019 Stars Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott Talk How They Got Inside Each Other\u2019s Minds (Video) At TheWrap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n