![]() ![]() And of course, there’s Brooklynn Prince, who plays Moonee. I mean, they are so young, who knows where they are going to go, but I would love to see the industry embrace all my actors. We later found out that he is actually a motel kid, and I’m happy that the film could make his family a bit of money, and maybe give him a start, if he wants act. He came in with such energy and won us over in seconds. Christopher came in through a casting call. At first she was taken aback, but she Googled me and saw I was legit and brought Valeria in to audition. I noticed her at a distance because of her striking red hair. I found Valeria Cotto, who plays Jancey, at a Target. I didn’t paint it purple it was already purple. But it was the Magic Castle that I wanted so badly, because of the connection, and because of the color. 92 there are budget motels that are now being inhabited week-to-week by families. In Florida, we had many motels to choose from. Just as in Tangerine, there’s an incredible sense of place in this movie.įor me, a place becomes a character. Chris’s mother lives in Orlando, and he loves Disney World. He brought me the topic for The Florida Project. to make Starlet and stayed there to make Tangerine with the same co-screenwriter for both, Chris Bergoch. I made two features in New York, Take Out, released by Kino, and Prince of Broadway. I moved to New York when I went to Tisch at NYU. The Florida Project screens at the New York Film Festival on October 1 and 3. ![]() This interview took place at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In the ingenious narrative structure devised by Baker and cowriter Chris Bergoch, Halley’s struggles are the subtext to Moonee’s rhapsodic explorations, until the moment when things fall apart. Halley’s inventiveness is directed toward bringing in enough money to pay the rent every seven days and cajoling the motel manager (Willem Dafoe, modest and solid) into turning a blind eye when she breaks the rules. But for Moonee’s mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite, fierce and vulnerable), play is less of an option. For these children, overgrown weeds, deserted houses, and nearby posh hotels spell adventure, and seen through their eyes and the lenses of Alexis Zabe’s 35mm camera, theirs is a lushly tropical, dazzlingly colorful world. In The Florida Project, six-year-old Moonee (remarkably expressive Brooklynn Prince) and her two best friends spend the summer running wild on the grounds of the Magic Castle, a week-by-week motel just a mile away from Florida’s Disney World. Sean Baker follows his 2015 breakout feature Tangerine with another high-energy movie about people whose imaginations are undaunted by living on the margins. ![]()
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