Filipino actress DollyEdeLeon discusses her breakout role in Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sdaness.
, he savaged contemporary art culture. His latest film focuses on the incompetence of the rich, and that's a theme that resonates with De Leon. There are shades of Bertolt Brecht and, as De Leon noted, Samuel Beckett in Östlund's script, most especially of. By simply hoping that someone else will deliver food, rescue, whatever, she said,"You are the cause of your own downfall.
Worse, the feckless rich on the ship are idiotically endangering everyone. There's a key scene in which one of the guests, blithely ignorant of the crew having jobs to do, demands that they stop and have mandatory fun. It's another aspect of abuse of power, the blind condescension to others, that De Leon sees echoed in the treatment of Indigenous peoples.
She also saw something deliberate in Östlund's decision to make the part of Abigail Southeast Asian – indeed, every time the below-decks crew is seen, they are Black or brown."I asked him, 'Why did you choose Filipino? Why not any other ethnicity?' And he said that's because that's what he's been witnessing, that we're usually crew members, we're the cleaning staff.
However, there's also a salutary lesson in Abigail about the seductive abuse of power."She's not after any social justice," De Leon said,"She's only interested in her own survival."
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