SXSW Interview: The Lost City Directors Adam & Aaron Nee
In the new action comedy, The Lost City, Sandra Bullock plays Loretta Sage, a talented romance-adventure writer, known for featuring cover model Alan (Channing Tatum) as the heroic «Dash.» When Loretta is kidnapped while promoting her new book by a clever billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe), who wants to discover the missing treasure from Loretta's new fiction, the bumbling Alan tries to come to her rescue.
We chat with The Lost City directors Adam & Aaron Nee at the film's premiere at the SXSW Festival about working with star Sandra Bullock, as well as what to expect from their adaptation of Masters of the Universe.
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Screen Rant: We gotta talk about the sparkly jumpsuit because I can't even wear one for one evening, let alone like Sandra having to wear that for, what? Three, four months?
Aaron Nee: We kept asking her leading up to shooting, «Are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure you want to do this? You're going to go in a river. You're going to go out on the ocean. You're going to be in a jungle. Are you sure you want to do this?» And, to her credit, not only the sparkly jumpsuit, but the high heels for real in the jungle. She said it took her a month for her feet to recover.
Adam Nee: The price of comedy. It made it funnier and she committed. It was amazing. It was a really inspiring thing that she did.
I have been cackling at this trailer every time I'm in the movie theater. How much fun did you guys have making this? Was every day on set just hilarious?
Adam Nee: It was so fun. Also because there was so much goodwill with the cast and crew. Everyone loved each other, so there was so much laughing. It was an incredibly difficult movie to make because we were in
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