Interview: Eve Symington Talks Creating Brut Force And Casting Tyler Posey

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Eve Symington’s debut feature film, Brut Force, takes audiences to the California winery scene in a thrilling neo-noir movie that uncovers corruption and a town disturbed by violence. The movie follows Symington’s sister, Lelia Symington, as the investigative reporter Sloane Sawyer. She returns to her hometown after hearing that someone has been harassing vineyard workers, and whips out her detective skills to get to the bottom of it.

Throughout the fast-paced movie, Sloane encounters people of her past, her widowed father, and the alluring Tico Reyes (played by Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey). Sloane and Tico grow closer together as it is revealed that he shares a similar interest in the crime, however things aren't as cut-and-dry as one would hope. In this conversation with Game Rant, Eve Symington spoke about her inspirations behind the movie, its main message, and casting Tyler Posey.

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Game Rant: What were some of your inspirations behind the film, as both a writer and a director?

Eve Symington: I was really interested in writing a thriller in the noir space. I had the genre in my head but wasn't sure how to get in at first. Then, I heard a podcast about a real incident of a farmworker housing being burned down by arson in California. No one was ever charged. They never found out who did it. I just thought that was such a striking story. It’s so incredibly hypocritical of people to not want to live near the people who are putting food on their tables. It underscores a duality we have in California and in most places, and speaks to the fact that there's a farmworker shortage in the states when there's