Goodnight Mommy Cast & Crew Discuss Raw Performances, Remake Differences
A green carpet lies on the floor of an independent two-screen movie theater named The Metrograph. The evening of September 14, 2022, saw the New York City premiere of the upcoming Amazon Prime Video filmstarring Naomi Watts. This is a remake of a 2014 Austrian film about twin brothers staying with a mother whose face is covered in bandages after a recent operation. However, her erratic behavior leads them to suspect that she is not really their mother.
The stars of the film are Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti as Elias and Lucas, the two twin brothers who have to find out what’s going on with their mother. When asked about the most interesting part of working on this film, Crovetti said, “Our director, Matt Scobel, he—we were actually kept in the dark about what happens at the end of the movie. We got the script only up to a certain point, and we weren’t allowed to read anymore because he wanted our performances to be really raw and natural.
When asked about what he will do next in his career, Scobel said, “It might sound funny, but I really don’t think about projects in terms of what genre they’re going to be in. I try to think about them in terms of what journey the primary protagonist is going on. I was attracted to the story because I find characters who have to lie to themselves in order to live with themselves very interesting. So I will continue to look for projects where that’s true, whether they’re horror or not.