We chat with Jules director Marc Turtletaub about his approach to the genre-bending dramedy, working with Ben Kingsley, and the challenges of practical effects for its sci-fi elements:
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Prepare for an out-of-world reminder of the importance of friendship in Jules. The movie centers on an elderly man living in a quiet Pennsylvania town who is thrust into a tense bond with two nosy neighbors after a UFO crashes in his backyard and brings with it a curious extraterrestrial.
It feels just like a normal grounded drama, but even when you throw the alien in there, it still somehow fits just right. I love that you mentioned the 1950s sci-fi nature to it, because I was curious how the design of the alien came about. Was that something in the script, was that something that you felt you wanted to go for in designing Jules?
The human challenge is that you had a woman Jade Quon playing the alien, and it would take her sometimes four to five hours a day to put that costume on. Then, she had to go to work, and then an hour and a quarter to take it off, she had to perform, right? [Chuckles] So, the work just begins after she's got the costume on, and so that's the human cost, and she was amazing, because she said, "In every scene, I want to be fully present.
This movie requires a lot of vulnerability from your actors, and going to a lot of very emotional places, as they have almost one-sided conversations with Jules throughout the movie. How do you, as a director, go about fostering that trust with your actors to allow themselves to go to those vulnerable places?
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